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Children and truth

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  Right from birth, as part of being accustomed to the society we have created, our children get exposed to lies. They soon get tightly and permanently surrounded by a society where parents lie to put children to sleep and teachers lie to make them follow orders. As they grow up they face bigger lies. Artists tell lies to show the truth, journalists tell lies to keep his boot, politicians lie to get power, religious leaders lie to develop blind follower base, industrialists lie to inflate their value and ego. In the age of misinformation overload it is seemingly impossible for a child to learn to distinguish lies from the truth. It is brutal on a child who is growing up in this society to live a dignified living while staying honest. We all are partly responsible for creating this world. Hence it is our responsibility to equip the child with skills which will help him/her maneuver through this world full of lies in every step effectively. How to distinguish lies from truth,...
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The Photo 51

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Believe it or not, this old abstract looking image, known just as Photo 51, is one of the most iconic images taken by humanity in its path to conquest of knowledge.  Let me explain. One way science differs from religion is that when some scientist on his/her path to glory claims discovery of some wonder of the universe, hundreds of brilliant scientists around the world respectfully get busy, for their own glory, to prove it wrong.  Scientific discovery is hard.   We humans, along with other animals, plants, bacterias, viruses, planktons, diatoms - all are made of something called Cell.  The building block of life.  But there is more to it.  By the early 1950s it was known to the scientists that within those slimy cell walls, inside its heart called the Nucleus - there is a very fundamental element that makes me ‘me’.  And you ‘you’.  And ‘me’ different from ‘you’, and every other lifeform in the world.  They called it ‘gene’. ...
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