Year: 2019
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Interactive textbook with adaptive level of complexity
This is an idea I've been having since a long time. I think it is relatively easy to implement as well. We need textbooks like we have online maps. Textbooks that give you an overview first and then let you zoom in to any part and get more and more details. The deeper we go…
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Making Time
Yesterday Swathi and I visited Anivar and Joshina and their kids. It has been at least 5 months since we started planning this visit. And we finally made time for it, yesterday. The moment we stepped inside Noonu and Ilan were on us – showing their toys, making us read story books, laughing at jokes,…
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Why is Benzylpenicillin called Penicillin G and Phenoxymethylpenicillin Penicillin V?
This one took a lot of searching. My initial hunch was that the G and the V stood for amino acids. G for Glycine and V for Valine. I thought, maybe, if these amino acids were not substituents, at least they would be the precursors involved in synthesis of Penicillins. I had also heard the…
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JLS: SJG Ayurvedic College, Koppal
On 6th March, Wednesday JeevaRaksha team did the first JLS (JeevaRaksha Life Support) course in an Ayurvedic college in Karnataka at SJG Ayurvedic College, Koppal. I took Hampi express on the night of fifth and reached by about 9 in the morning and the workshop had already started by the time I reached the venue.…
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On (Not) Judging People
Human beings have an in-built sense of “morality” that they routinely apply against everything that they come across. There are multiple ways one’s sense of what is moral and what is immoral emerges – including religion, upbringing, exposure, rationality, mental health, and so on. Is morality necessary? Morality is necessary. Not just because it allows…
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Why are the question papers of NEET PG not available anywhere?
If you are a medical student, you know what I am talking about. The PG medical entrance test, called NEET PG, is a proprietary test conducted by National Board of Examinations. You have to sign a non-disclosure agreement to attempt this test. You cannot, according to the agreement, disclose the questions asked to anyone. Neither…