Billy noticed the awkward gait. The young man laboured with every step. He was in his late twenties & dressed in anover sized suit. Suddenly the young man bent over, lifted his trousers & dismantled what turned out to be a prosthetic leg. He left it on the street, hobbled to a nearby bench & […]
It’s the last day in the month of April and with this we come to the end of this year’s #AToZChallenge. I had chosen my theme for the month to be DOCTORS & SCIENTISTS WHO SELF EXPERIMENTED and so far, we have seen 25 amazing, crazy, life changing self-experiments. This challenge has definitely been close to […]
If you watch the hit TV sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, you often come across the concept of the Schrodinger’s Cat. Today’s blog post is based on this premise, so before we go into it, we need to know what this cat is all about. Schrödinger’s cat is an experiment about quantum physics. Schrödinger suggested it in 1935. Schrödinger […]
As we are coming to the end of the month of April, so too is the #AToZChallenge for this year. I have focused on the theme of DOCTORS & SCIENTISTS WHO SELF EXPERIMENTED this year and I must say that some of them have been crazy. But for all this madness there’s a method which […]
By now we have seen so many people do weird experiments in the name of science this month in my series DOCTORS & SCIENTISTS WHO SELF EXPERIMENTED that you would probably think that nothing can surprise you anymore. But once again I have managed to find two people who probably will leave you wondering WHY […]
Yellow fever is a viral disease. It causes fever, chills, loss of appetite, muscle pain, vomiting and headaches. It is caused by the yellow fever virus and spread by the bite of the infected female mosquito. Long before we knew about the mode of spread of this disease, there was a considerable debate regarding the […]
Undergoing a surgical or dental procedure has come a long way from what it had been a number of years ago. This has been possible because of the dedication and will power of a select few, who put their lives at stake to find a pain-free way of doing surgeries. Horace Wells was born on 21stJanuary […]
Sometimes it is hard to differentiate between the intelligent and the insane in the scientific community. Often, they say that geniuses are usually crazy. This month we have come across a number of them in the series DOCTORS AND SCEINTISTS WHO SELF EXPERIMENTED. This particular gentleman might just be one among them. Johann Wilhelm Ritter was […]
Of all the researchers that I have written about this month in my series DOCTORS & SCIENTISTS WHO SELF EXPERIMENTED, this one is probably the one which is saddest of them all. I almost decided to skip it but then pressed the PUBLISH button anyway. If you are happy and do not want to spoil […]
Human fascination for Robots has been evident since a long time. Even before a part human, part robot Arnold Schwarzenegger repeatedly hammed “I’ll be back” in the movie Terminator, scientists all over the world have been trying to develop robots which could work like humans. Kevin Warwick was the one who wanted to merge the […]
