RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR “We must always bear in mind that despite the most beautiful agreement between the facts and our ideas, explanatory principles are only points of view, that is, manifestations of the psychological attitude and of the a priori conditions under which all thinking takes place.” —Carl Gustav Jung, On Psychic Energy [1948] When Carl […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR His name conjures up images of pure art, also science, of batting at its best — a canvas that Rembrandt van Rijn would have painted with relish. He integrated aesthetic judgment with truth and justice, no less: a theory of knowledge of what is merely artistic is also simply articulate. Not only that. […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The legendary Greek philosopher-mathematician Pythagoras often echoed that good music was allied with the varied rhythms and cadences of life. He also employed his findings in music to the ‘conduct’ of cosmic objects — in other words, the smallest intervals in the musical scale — that added up to seven whole tones that […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Happiness, as most of us think, isn’t just pleasure, or synthetic satisfaction. “Many persons,” as Helen Keller put it, “have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” Human happiness cannot exist in a vacuum, or in isolation, because the […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR All of us have the ability to use our intuition to enhance every area of our daily life, recover lost information about the past, verify unknown information about the present, or predict information about the future. You wouldn’t believe one word of it. No problem. As Laura Day, a renowned expert and author of […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s agreed that one-third of all deaths from cancer can be prevented, not by way of sophisticated ‘pre-emptive’ methods, but through simple practices — such as balanced diet, reducing weight, if one is corpulent, and keeping active, or doing exercise. Yet another important resolve is giving up smoking. It’s the most important thing […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The idea of consciousness and its relationship between mind and brain have puzzled, bamboozled, and flummoxed philosophers and scientists alike since the dawn of civilisation. They still do — notwithstanding a host of new, breath-taking discoveries, that include peptides, our molecules of emotions. This isn’t all. Molecular biologists have discovered the fundamental building […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR “That is no country for old men. The young/In one another’s arms, birds in the trees/ — Those dying generations — at their song,/The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,/Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long/Whatever is begotten, born, and dies./ Caught in that sensual music all neglect/Monuments of unageing intellect.” Thus wrote William […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Science has, for long, used empirical data to estimate how close a theory is to the truth. But, not all theories, however, can be evaluated in that manner — for a plethora of reasons. In areas, such as string theory, cosmology, and evolutionary biology, for instance, arriving at how close a theory is […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Colour is, perhaps, the rainbow synthesis of our lives. There’s also a paradox — although we are incessantly fascinated by different colours, hues and tints, we do not always think of their power. We do not also sometimes notice the colours around us. Yet, as research testifies that — consciously and subconsciously — […]