Yes I think that’s the name but that’s not important!
In one instance in the movie the ‘Human’ tells an ‘alien friend’ that he is going to sleep! The alien is shocked!
Have you experienced this in your pets especially dogs!?
They sleep so light! The moment you touch them they are ready to attack or at least get up so fast! In the world and in the wild; it is a jungle out there!
So you have to be always prepared!
So if your pet sleeps like a baby without getting disturbed then one reason is that he or she is lazy! But the actual reason is that he or she has become so comfortable and confident about his or her security that he does not have any anxiety to sleep!
This is what the alien meant!
He tells that they never sleep alone!
Apparently they watch over each other when they sleep! Maybe even take turns!
So if you sleep soundly and make a LOUD snoring sound then of course you need to reduce weight and meet a physician but the good thing is that you are comfortable!
You are safe among your friends and family and you take a sound nap!
Now doesn’t that Sound nice!? Nice also is the voice of Chithra!
A quick blog and a 35000 feet above the ground on a flight enroute to the land of the rising sun!
Then again any healing of any fracture is not a simple thing! It is an indication of the profound social support one person has received!
It is really amazing how a fracture can be an indication of society!
A healed leg fracture in the animal kingdom reflects a profound social reality: survival of such a severe injury in nature generally requires either community care or unique metabolic and environmental conditions.
This concept is famously tied to anthropological discussions on empathy, community support, and the origins of civilization.
In the wild, a broken leg usually means an animal cannot run from predators, hunt, or reach water, making it fatal.
Some social species (like elephants, wolves, or primates) show evidence of group protection or behavioral adaptation allowing an individual to limp through recovery.
Solitary predators may occasionally survive minor fractures by relying on fat reserves if water remains accessible nearby.
The Anthropological Perspective or the the “Healed Femur” Concept was thus suggested by Anthropologist Margaret Mead! She famously suggested that the earliest sign of civilization is a healed human thighbone (femur), because it proves someone cared for the injured individual!
A healed major fracture means a community stayed behind, bound the wound, carried the person, and shared food during months of helplessness—marking the birth of human empathy and social cooperation! A healed femur is thus a sign of compassion!
Of course there are other signs of compassion but this is CARVED IN BONE!
That’s no laughing matter! Laughter though is also good in healing! Which reminds me of Mandar Chandwadkar!
Did you ever think on how the very thing the person who invented the wheel would have or should have done!?
Not patent it of course!
The very first thing he or she must have done is to invent the BRAKES!
The speed of your vehicle is not determined by that engine in the practical sense but in the capacity of your brake!
Now of course we have such a complicated and effective braking system but it all started with simple blocks!
In short Braking systems evolved from simple wooden blocks to mechanical drum brakes, and later to hydraulic and disc brakes.
This progression drastically increased stopping power and safety for vehicles!
The earliest ones were the Wooden blocks which were used on early carriages and steam cars, where a lever pressed a wood block directly against steel-rimmed wheels.
Then it shfted to the pneumatic rubber tires in the late 1890s which the wooden blocks useless because they quickly destroyed the rubber.
Then you had the Mechanical drum brakes which were invented by Louis Renault in 1902, using cables or rods to pull brake shoes against the inside of a metal drum!
The best development happened in the 1950s, utilizing a metal rotor and calipers that squeeze pads against the disc, offering superior heat dispersion and stopping performance! The DISK BRAKES!
The latest (at least for now!) are the the anti-lock brake system, better known as ABS. ABS works by sensing when a lock is about to occur and igniting a system of hydraulic valves to reduce the pressure of a brake on a single wheel.
The system revolutionized the way brakes function and is useful in providing more control for the modern driver.
Of course somethings are not in your control, like you cannot be resistant to the emotions behind the poems and prose of Shailesh Lodha!
Do you know the interesting story of an army of around 500 who defeated and took over an empire of 1 6 million people!?
There were helped by a very small helper!
So small that it had the name SMALL in its name! Yes that was a joke! It was named SMALL after a disease but it was (Still is!) really small!
Five hundred years ago, in February of 1519, the Spaniard Hernán Cortés set sail from Cuba to explore and colonize Aztec civilization in the Mexican interior.
Within just two years, Aztec ruler Montezuma was dead, the capital city of Tenochtitlan was captured and Cortés had claimed the Aztec empire for Spain!
Cortés with his 500 men then headed into the Mexican interior. This region was home to the Aztec civilization, an empire of an estimated 16 million people at this time. Through a system of conquest and tribute, the Aztecs had established the great island city of Tenochtitlan in Lake Texcoco that ruled over an area of about 80,000 square miles.
Imagine an army of 500 overpowering a country of over 16 million!
Now of course Spanish weaponry and tactics played a role, but most of the destruction was wrought by a small member of ANOTHER TEAM! This member caused an epidemics of European diseases!
After helping conquer Cuba for the Spanish, Cortés was commissioned to lead an expedition to the mainland. When his small fleet landed, he ordered his ships scuttled, eliminating any possibility of retreat and conveying the depth of his resolve!
But if it was not for that little member; it would have been a difficult mission!
The member was a virus which causes SMALL POX!
Having lived in the Americas isolated from European and Asian livestock and germs, indigenous groups had no genetic resistance to the smallpox virus! Which means that they had zero defence!
The outbreak arrived in 1520 via an infected soldier in Hernán Cortés’s force and tore through the densely populated capital of Tenochtitlan!
Historical accounts note that the virus killed between one-third and one-half of the population in central Mexico in a single year!
When the leader is dead nothing can be done! The disease killed the Aztec emperor Cuitláhuac (who had succeeded Montezuma) along with many other military commanders and nobles!
So many people fell sick at once that there was no one left to nurse the sick, bury the dead, or harvest crops, causing mass starvation!
With society paralyzed by illness and grief, the military command structure fractured, making it much easier for Cortés and his local native allies to lay siege to and conquer Tenochtitlan in Augus!
So nothing is very SMALL!
Then again some thing or people may have a short term in action but their time is remembered for long and how!
Like Master Chief Petty Officer Krishnan Madhavan Nair! His movies and actions now are legendary!
There was this Ramsay brother’s movie called Veerana! It used to give us the chills! In spite of that I had watched it so many times when I was young!
Then came the sleep less nights and all kinds of hallucinations!
After a couple of days I would decide never to watch another horror movie again! Till the next one of course!
Do you know who are adrenaline junkies and dark copers!? And do you know why some (or as my wife calls them especially me; crazy!) people watch horror movies!?
According to research It is a combination of an adrenaline rush and an opportunity to learn about dealing with scary situations in a safe environment!
Apparently the first types are called “adrenaline junkies,” while the other two are the “white knucklers” and “dark copers.
For white knucklers and dark copers, feeling fear for fun is more about self-learning and self-efficacy. White knucklers try to “lean out” of the experience by trying to find the situation funny or lessening their exposure to the scary stimuli. While Dark copers seem to use scary media to help them deal with anxieties about the world or their own lives by focusing on a more concrete threat!
The again it is actually beneficial to watch horror movies!
One is getting practice or facing your fear in a controlled manner! Viewers feel scared, but they know they are sitting safely on a couch!
These movies act as a safe practice space for dealing with dangerous situations!
The you have the relief phase! Once the scary part ends, the brain feels a strong wave of relief and happiness! Also almost all horror movies warn you that if it is dark DONT GO OUT! Also do not gift lift to strangers on roads which are close to Cemetery! Now if you need to watch Horror movie to know that then you may need much more training by the way!
Fear also causes the body to release stress hormones, making people feel more awake and energized! Also watching scary things with friends releases chemicals like oxytocin that bring people closer together!
Horror movie reminds me of the two cool scary movies starring birthday celebrity Manoj Kumar; Woh koun thi and Gumnaam! Sadhana as the girl in white saree going to a graveyard was epic scary at the time! Hope you don’t have a nightmare!
One of the leading cyber crime experts is Amit Dubey who has written couple of amazing books on the same and also has enabled the recovery and arrests of several cyber criminals all over the world!
One cyber crime he mentioned goes like this!
One guy gets a call or message from a ‘connection’ from a professional social site. The guy tells him that he has cracked the STOCK code!
He tells him that he can predict which stock would go up or down and that too accurately!
Remember that this is not any minor share he is speaking about! It is about some major share!
Of course you do not believe him so he tells the guy that this particular major share will rise the next day!
And lo! It happens!
Then again, that is something even I who has no knowledge of the market can tell!
Then he tells the next day after (beating his trumpet that he was right of course!) that another share is going to fall the next day!
Remember this time it is fall and a different share!
The very next day though you may not have been very interested at first, you would still check and see that a miracle has happened!
The share has fallen!
Now there are so many experts who can still predict this! But on continous days predicting such a fall and rise of two different share is really amazing!
But you still would not loosen your purse strings so to speak!
This time you call or message him and tell him that he is right! But that is all!
Then he tells you that the next day another major SPECIFIC share will rise!
This time you will not sleep and look out for the news! And this time it is a hat trick! This cannot be a coincidence! The very share he predicted had risen!
Now you are his devotee! Then even if he asks your kidney and promise you that you will get two kidneys back you will give it to him!
Of course it is an elaborate con!
Did you get how it is done!? Remember the number above!?
The con man actually calls or messages around 40 people in the first ACT! The number can be more but lets keep it 40 for now!
Half of them he tells that a share will rise while the other half he tells them that it will fall!
He would be right for at least one half!
Those half group of people to whom the prediction turned out to be RIGHT, he again divides them in half and tells one half that another particular share would rise or fall!
Here also since a share can only rise or fall it is simply a matter of one half getting right! Like the toss of a coin!
Then finally he gets the five people on which all his three PREDICTIONS ‘turned’ out to be RIGHT!
40 20 10 and 5! The final 5 he will con and make his money and scoot!
If you thought being a con man is easy, well you are HALF RIGHT! Wanna bet!?
Then again you can safely bet that Lakshminarayana Subramaniam is a great violinist!
Many times you are faced with so many choices or simply two but the final decision is so hard that you get frustrated!
At least now you have a name for it! The Buridan’s donkey (or Buridan’s ass)!
By the way even that may not be the first CHOICE for originality since a similar conflict was mentioned before!
Now the Buridan’s donkey (or Buridan’s ass!) is a famous philosophical thought experiment about free will, rational decision-making, and paralyzing indecision.
The original analogy describes a hungry donkey placed exactly midway between two identical piles of hay!
Then comes the conflict! Because the donkey is completely rational and sees no reason to choose one pile over the other, it cannot make a choice!
Unable to decide, the donkey stays still and starves to death!
The average young man or woman also faces the same choice between two (or more!) eligible men or women and fails to make a choice and misses the bus eventually! Becoming a Buridan’s ass!
Similar ideas were discussed much earlier by philosophers like Aristotle who used examples of a person stuck between equally appealing food and drink!
The concept was used to mock or debate moral determinism, showing how a totally rational agent might fail to act without a distinct preference or external push!
We also act like Buridan’s ass most of the times!
We are the generation with the Infinite Menu and choices!
Streaming platforms, online shopping, and career paths offer millions of nearly identical choices, turning simple decisions into exhausting mental hurdles! Plus the added regret when you do make a choice and regret or do not make it an regret even more!
The Illusion of Optimization or perfection! People freeze trying to find the single “perfect” choice, fearing that picking wrong means missing out on an optimal life!
Just like the logical donkey, over-analyzing pros and cons triggers stress in the brain, making doing nothing feel safer than making a move!
So how do you break the Modern Deadlock?
Best is to simply flip a coin! Or picking at random breaks the trap of trying to logically differentiate identical options!
Setting hard personal limits—like a time limit or a budget—reduces the field of choices instantly.
Finally accept “Good Enough”! The single act of giving up the search for perfection allows you to commit, act, and move forward with life!
Nothing is perfect! Even life! Accept life and decisions along with its imperfections!
Classical Indian schools of thought (such as Nyaya, Vedanta, or Buddhism) analyze motivation (iccha), volition (kriti or prayatna), and action (karma), but they frame decision-making through causal inputs and psychological karma rather than symmetrical logical paralysis!
So do not be an ASS of the Buridan! Make a choice!
Then again if you want to choose some old song to listen then you can simply MUKESH it!
What is the connection between a movie called Aakhree Raasta; Appu Raja and the Final Destination series!?
All are good entertaining movies no doubt! But think harder!
The first two movies are Tamil originals but that is not the link! The link is that all these and many more movies feature a scene in which you see a contraption which starts with a simple device like a marble or a ball and finally the end is either a big event!
That whole SCHEME of things is based on a machine!
The common factor in all these is the Rube Goldberg machine!
So a Rube Goldberg machine is an overly complex, convoluted contraption designed to perform a very simple task through a chain reaction of simple machines.
Named after the American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, these devices turn simple actions like wiping a face, turning a page, or ringing a bell into elaborate spectacles of physics and engineering!
A human triggers the first step with a small push, after which the machine runs entirely on its own.
Then starts the CHAIN REACTION! Each distinct component or step triggers the next using kinetic energy transfer (e.g., a rolling ball hitting dominoes)!
They usually combine simple machines and basic mechanical elements like levers, pulleys, inclined planes, screws, wedges, and wheels.
The materials usually used are the common household materials like Marbles and Balls which are Great for rolling down tracks and acting as shifting weights!
Then you can use Cardboard Tubes and Ramps; Dominos and Books and of course String and Pulleys!
Now while in the first two movies the Rube Goldberg is created by humans while in the Final Destination franchise, you have the Rube Goldberg machine based death which is called Rube Goldberg death!
In the movie you have a highly elaborate, chain-reaction sequences orchestrated by the unseen force of Death.
Instead of a traditional slasher villain, everyday objects and environments act as intricate, domino-effect traps that characters must navigate to avoid their predetermined fates!
These complex sequences are a hallmark of the movies, where a single minor disruption (a spilled drink, a breeze, or an electrical short) triggers a series of escalating events that ultimately result in a grisly fatality!
In fact the whole franchise is based on and has become popular because of he iconic Rube Goldberg Kills!
Anyone who has seen the franchise would stay away from the highway truck full of logs of wood whether he or she knows about Rube Goldberg or not!
It’s better if daya from CID investigates!
You sleep without fear of the Rube Goldberg! Just don’t keep any marbles around!
Sometimes having too much SWEET can be injurious to health!
There is a chollu or saying in Malayalam; “അമിതമായാൽ അമൃതും വിഷം” (amitamāyāl amr̥tuṁ viṣaṁ) which roughly translates to “when more, even nectar is poison”!
Did you know though there was a huge accident which involved a SWEET liquid which actually caused death and destruction!?
It was called the Great Molasses Flood of Boston!
It happened way back in 1919 when there were no industrial laws and guidelines!
A poorly constructed holding tank with liquid Molasses ruptured unleashing a massive, deadly wave of 2.3 million gallons of molasses down Commercial Street.
The collapsing 50-foot-tall steel tank created a sticky tsunami between 15 to 40 feet high and 160 feet wide!
Traveling at roughly 35 miles per hour, the wave leveled buildings, crushed wagons, damaged an elevated train line, and swept away pedestrians and horses!
The unseasonably warm weather initially allowed the heavy syrup to spread fast. As temperatures dropped that night, the fluid thickened into a viscous, suffocating trap that severely hindered rescue efforts!
Hundreds of emergency workers, volunteers, and military personnel used harbor saltwater and sand to strip the sticky residue from the streets. The cleanup lasted for weeks, and the waters of Boston Harbor remained brown until summer!
The tank was owned by the United States Industrial Alcohol Company (USIA) to ferment molasses into industrial alcohol for munitions.
Post-disaster investigations revealed severe engineering failures like Flawed Materials like how the steel walls were constructed too thin to handle a full load, and the steel lacked adequate manganese, rendering it dangerously brittle in cold weather!
The company also skipped testing the tank with water prior to full commercial use.
When residents complained about severe leaking from day one, the company simply painted the tank brown to conceal the dripping syrup!
Not to mention the fact that the project was managed by an accountant with no structural engineering experience!
USIA initially claimed that anarchist bombers caused the explosion.
However, a landmark 1925 court ruling held the company fully liable for structural negligence.
USIA was forced to pay $628,000 in damages (equivalent to over $10 million today) to victims and survivors!
The disaster fundamentally transformed industrial safety regulations across America.
It led to standard requirements for municipal building laws, mandated that certified architects and structural engineers sign and seal their calculation plans, and pushed US states to implement professional engineering licensing laws!
At least some good thing came out of that WAKE UP CALL!
So everything does not have to be sweet! Even if it’s your last match! Lionel Messi you will remain a GOAT!
One of the most laziest player (for the ignorant!) is Messi!
Most of the times he walks! He does not run!
Which footballer does not run most of the times you would ask?
Well, only the best one in the world!
Apparently there is a whole science behind MESSI WALKS!
I love playing football but watching is another thing! Also running all the time is actually stupidity! You will get tired and well; retired!
Also for a self proclaimed nerd like me, football is literally out there!
But I love me the science of MESSI walk! This has been studied and it is simply amazing! That is the difference between cricket and football! In cricket you can have a thrill in every other ball but in football you have to wait so much to get that one ball in!
It is frustrating but that is what makes it apparently enjoyable to thos who watch it! Now since getting the BALL in or a GOAL is a rare phenomenon and the one which decides the fate; Messi is the GOAT because he puts science in the game! Of course he also has the skills!
So Lionel Messi spends roughly 47% to 63% of his matches walking or standing, making him one of the least active players in terms of distance covered, yet he remains incredibly decisive!
The Science and Strategy Behind the Walk is three fold!
Messi’s walking is not a sign of fatigue or lack of effort; it is a highly calculated tactical tool!
Tactical Mapping: During the first 10 minutes of a match, Messi surveys the pitch, building a mental map of where space is and how the opponent sets up defensively! You can see that most of his GOALS are in the later part of the game! He needs to map the field and then make his move!
Energy Conservation: By walking, he avoids unnecessary sprints and preserves explosive energy for game-deciding moments! He is like the Lion or tiger who simply WALKS for most of the time and then suddenly charges for the KILL!
Then he uses the art of Exploiting Space! His seemingly aimless wandering often drags defenders out of position or leaves him unmarked, creating space for teammates! Which also explains how he gives ones of the best GOAL scoring passes!
So he actually WALKS the TALK! Which is why he is a GOAT!
All the best for his swan song! My knowledge of football is not only bad but it’s still worse than my knowledge of cricket!
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