Every one who tries to know the following four things, it were better for him if he had never come into the world, viz.: What is above and what is beneath, what was before creation, and what will be after all will be destroyed. And every one who does not revere the glory of his…

The next 10 years or so will determine the critical relationship between Carbon and Silicon. These tetravalent elements belong to the same family on the periodic table.  Carbon is the main versatile constituent of life, basis of organic chemistry,  while Silicon is the main elemental component in computational devices. Many of our most brilliant and…

The first question asked in sleep research is why the state of sleep exists, in other words, why do we need sleep at all, why spend one third of our lives sleeping? Assuming that the brain adapts an animal to its environment, why has sleep evolved? It may be the other way around. The sleeping…

I personally  attend opera mostly for the music but surprisingly the story and performance at the Philadelphia Opera of the Dialogues had a strange synergy for me.  I say surprisingly and strange because I am more scientist than religionist by belief, and I am not a music or opera professional, just a music lover, an amateur.…

I was psyched today having finally attended The Philadelphia Flower Show.  I wanted to go for years but never found the time. I was drawn by the unexpected, little reproductions of houses that transport you into another world,  made entirely of plants.  They had plenty of giant horticultural displays with explosions of color and that…

As a neurologist i have always been interested in handedness. Left handed persons are in the minority by about 5 or 6 to one. Though I can well understand why the hemispheres of the brain like all other parts of the brain specialize, ordinarily the left hemisphere for language, it is hard to fathom the…

Much of my previous posts relate to memory, a record of the past. On the surface of it memory is one of the less complex cognitive modules of the brain, but I’ve been fascinated by it for years. For one thing, like most things that seem to be simple, when you examine memory fully, it…

The idea,  expressed In “Andrew’s Brain”  by EL Doctorow, that a complete record of past lives is recorded in the genome and that extinct species and even individuals may be brought back,  if one day scientists might figure out how to do this, isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds.  I remember learning about the discovery…

Not to be critical, but I often observed taking care of patients, when it comes to the very heavy ones, the diabetics and smokers, those who fail to take care of themselves, even if it isn’t said explicitly, that some health care workers view them with a certain disdain. This is a trend we all…