Curiosity driven life
(Gunawardana Research Lab)
There is the holy, life, and then there is the holy grail, immortality. We humans have been voracious seekers of the fountain of youth since the time of new world explorations and even before. Ponce De Leon undertook an expedition in Florida in 1513 for the evasive water of youth but he could not unravel the fountain for a protracted […]
The tourism industry is made of four vital cogs; airlines/carriers, hotel chains, tour operators, and the consumer. All four are capable of greenhouse gas emissions and thus, liable/guilty for carbon and nitrogen footprints, which means that there are consequences on the climate by our need to be travelers, burgeoned by our sense of needing wanderlust. First, it is now known […]
There are 7 coronaviruses that are known to infect humans. Some like the SARS-CoV 2 can be absolutely lethal, while many others manifest only as milder symptoms. There are questions that fester in a climate of conspiracy theories and supposed anthropo-tinkered viral genetics, which are thrown about as carefree and careless theories. Its important thus to take a deeper […]
Climate change is omnipresent and omni-destructive. However there is a colossal battle that has been going on for a decade or two or so, that draws the climate change creed against the ignorant pagans. Here is my two cents worth on how we can teach climate change to anyone, to resist the force of this holistic beast, the minotaur. […]
################################################################ —- Red Carpet of Evolution, The long road of survival; Origin of species by natural selection. The baculum that ceased to Become a bone and a giant ruby That became the source of A mushy renaissance. —– So how did love evolve? Darwin if alive would say adaptation. —– The strange twists that by which We live, we love, […]
The DNA of a reverie, That catapulted a man in a convertible Driving down a dusty road in California, With no sunroof on top. You dreamed of samba dancing, The leading man, and the lagging maiden, Making rows that protract And curve and fit into a bona fide zipper. It was your dream that made The hard, easy; the […]
I am the oxytocin flustered chimp Who lost his precious baculum (penis bone) And gained a royal flush of blood, to the thrush of a boneless universe, To a place bigger than any God. You are the estrogen-dripping monkey-ness Whose knee caps attest, – Just like mine – To when we became blissfully sloppy, Rolling and fencing tongues. […]
Whether it is cricket or a thicket, green is the color that predominates and preserves the game of life. The foliar dressings of green perpetuate nature by hydrolyzing water and supplying the oxygen for the strain of pneuma (a word that can be used to define both life and spirit) that inevitably controls life span and the life story. At […]
Sherpa Dreams (599 Words) Scientific communication has always been taller than Everest, rockier than Matterhorn, holier than Kailash, snowy as Kilimanjaro and as alien as Olympus Mons, which makes this rocky fortress truly a herculean task to surmount. Yet there are those who are seasoned scientific writers who have scaled the heights of success of this sought-after profession. This is […]
Curiosity proverb says killed a feline pet but the same element that defines the perennial seeker or conquistador in man, is not for sale or lease from any form of researcher or scientist. From a bath tub in Syracuse, Sicily to an apple tree in Lincolnshire in England to a dream in California, U.S.A, it was curiosity that defined […]
It was nearly 150 years ago that lichens were discovered. Lichens were shown to be a composite partnership of fungi and algae/cyanobacteria. The relationship was called symbiosis. This fundamental canon remained as a mainstay in biology for more than a century until in the second decade of the 21st century a home-schooled Ph.D. from Montana (Dr Tony Spiribille) showed that […]
It’s a number in a scale A quotient without units or dimensions A reward for answering a few questions On a piece of paper A venerated test that few people take After all if your number is on the lower half You feel like a bottom-dweller A scavenger fish, a debris feeder Still people queue up Especially the mathematicians And […]
We live in a world of theories, some logical, some factual, some ingenious, some plain stupid but one common progenitor cell that unites them all is that they were all once new ideas that set a benchmark or an alternate reflection to a scientific question. In this era, there are discoveries that solve and absolve the greatest quests of human […]
In the mythical curves of a voluptuous creature A helical mannequin that flaunts The perfection of creation and imperfection of being In her near-naked breasts and hourglass hips A heiress that radiates tones and veneers Color-coded in ethnicity and barcoded by identity Bearing both the canopy of skin And the inner beauty that lies concealed A muse who ages with […]
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