Category Archives: Science

Book Review – How Intelligence Happens by John Duncan

Posted on January 4, 2026 by Tarun Rattan

  How Intelligence Happens by John Duncan 5 of 5 stars The word “intelligence” comes from Latin terms intelligentia and intellligere meaning “to comprehend” or “to perceive”. In the Middle Ages, the word intellectus was used to translate the Greek … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Age of AI by, Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Tarun Rattan

  The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future by Henry Kissinger5 of 5 stars   I’ve been long searching for a book which could explain the philosophical foundations upon which the edifice of today’s AI frameworks has been built … Continue reading →

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Book Review – The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Posted on September 14, 2025 by Tarun Rattan

  The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson5 of 5 stars The book exposes the dangers of climate change and shows how bleak our future looks. Just as we are all subject to some perceptual errors due to … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality and the Future of Humanity

Posted on January 18, 2022 by Tarun Rattan

  Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality and the Future of Humanity by Sam Harris5 of 5 stars This book is the concise summary of Sam Harris’s podcast conversations with number of influential thinkers of our time. The common theme … Continue reading →

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Lakshmi: Vedic science of Wealth

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Tarun Rattan

Wealth is defined in modern English as “an abundance of valuable possessions or money” or “a plentiful supply of a particular desirable thing.” Father of Capitalism – Adam Smith – in his book “The Wealth of Nations”, described wealth as … Continue reading →

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Higgs Boson – Press Release (PR17.12 04.07.2012)

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Tarun Rattan

CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson Geneva, 4 July 2012. At a seminar held at CERN1 today as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented … Continue reading →

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The Truth About Semen by Jamie Condliffe

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Tarun Rattan

A gentleman’s relish is the true water of life. A nice shot of semen allows a man to pass on a genetic code through the ages, offering the closest thing to eternal life humans are ever likely to achieve. But … Continue reading →

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Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Tarun Rattan

  Seventy years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. At first glance, there seemed little about the article to augur its … Continue reading →

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Fungus Makes Zombie Ants Do All the Work

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Tarun Rattan

  A tropical fungus has adapted to infect ants and force them to chomp, with surprising specificity, into perfectly located leaves before killing them and taking over their bodies By Katherine Harmon   ANT COLONIZED: A mature O. unilateralis growing … Continue reading →

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