A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted relationships to truth: ‘Alternative facts’ The phrase “alternative facts” has recently made the news in a political context, but psychiatrists like me are already intimately acquainted with the concept – indeed, we hear various forms of alternate reality expressed almost every day. Untruths aren’t always lies: First, we need to…
The Giant Pacific Octopuses for example has 3 hearts, 9 brains, and blue blood. It sounds like something straight out of a fantasy novel, but alas our own world is magical enough to have creatures as big as 600 pounds capable of squeezing through a coin-sized hole. When it comes to reproduction, octopuses once again…
Polar bears are top carnivores that bioaccumulate the vitamin A produced by marine algae lower down the food chain. Because vitamin A isn’t water-soluble, it can’t be easily flushed from the body and is stored in the liver instead. Bears and seals have generally high levels of vitamin A in their livers but polar bears…
India rupee slips 6 paise to 75.42 against US dollar in early trade: At the interbank foreign exchange, the India rupee opened on a weak note at 75.41, then fell further to 75.42, registering a decline of 6 paise from the last close. The Indian rupee depreciated 6 paise to 75.42 against the US dollar…
To discover this, the scientists out of Germany studied 51 dogs in different conditions to see how they would react when people intentionally or unintentionally refrained from giving them a treat. Also known as unable versus unwilling paradigm. The conditions included dogs and people separated by a clear barrier as the human held a treat….
In September this year, the Chandrayaan-2 mission made for an international spectacle for its technological leap — before losing its Vikram lander. But its success came on the back of India’s first moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, which entered the lunar orbit exactly 11 years ago. For most of the 20th century, scientists thought the Moon’s surface was bone-dry. The…
Next time you’re stuffing fistfuls of delicious bacon into your taste receptors , you might want to consider sticking a piece or two of crispy goodness into your crotch, then up your butt for good measure. No, I’m not suggesting you develop a kinky bacon fetish (although experimenting with bacon condoms is always a good…
World War II 1939–1945 Conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I. The…
Benign Masochism: I like to indulge myself. If there’s a strange smell, I’ll go and take nostril-full to see just how much it can freak me out. If I’m watching a depressing movie and feel a crying jag coming. I’ll think of other sad things so the sorrow can hit with full force. These reactions…
All those years on the couch playing Nintendo and PlayStation appear to be paying off for surgeons. Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37 percent fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27 percent faster than their counterparts who did not play…
