It’s not all that often that you see a top-tier professional in one field effortlessly able to transition to the highest strata of a completely separate field altogether – almost overnight – but that’s exactly what’s happened with medical doctor and author Siddhartha Mukherjee and his book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Mukherjee, both a cancer physician … [Read more...] about The Emperor of All Maladies – A Review
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Boycott Blizzard: Will Gamers Stick To Their Word?
The Story So Far Protests have been raging ion n Hong Kong since the 31st of March 2019. What started as a protest against the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill, has since spiraled into a greater issue bringing into focus atrocities committed by the Chinese government. According to the Hong Kong Free Press, protestors were concerned that the proposed amendments "would … [Read more...] about Boycott Blizzard: Will Gamers Stick To Their Word?
Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Review
Immediately influential when it was first published in 1997, author Jared Diamond had a runaway best-selling hit in Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – a title that would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize (and deservedly so). The book takes a deep dive into the history of humanity as well as the what, why, and how behind the disparate progress that certain … [Read more...] about Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Review
What different religions say about the LGBT+ community
LGBT continues to be a contentious matter for several major religions of the world. A few religions have stringent preaching against homosexual and bisexual activities. Some religions are relatively less stringent. Very few religions have warmly welcomed the LGBT community around the world. Mythologies have had many LGBT characters and religions are varyingly connected to such … [Read more...] about What different religions say about the LGBT+ community
Cryonics can show you the unimaginable future… probably
January 12th of every year is observed as James Bedford day. James Bedford was the first man whose body was cryopreserved after his legal death. And here I was thinking that Applied Cryogenics, the place where Fry gets himself frozen in Futurama was just good fiction. I'm talking about companies like Alcor and the Cryonics Institute, of course. We've all heard the … [Read more...] about Cryonics can show you the unimaginable future… probably