When somebody says, you can increase the readership of your blog, just by posting a tweet, won’t you do it? I would take up such an opportunity, because there is nothing to lose. It is free and easy to use. What I don’t understand is, why people send so many tweets a day. Some have more than 1000 tweets a day. When ever they have a thought or feeling, they just feel amused and posts it in twitter. It is a new for of addiction. In India, twitter is not much a favorite. The favorite here is Orkut. I too was an orkut addict, I spent many hours trying to figure out how to browse orkut, from our college, where orkut is blocked. But once I had my own internet connection and no body to block me from browsing Orkut, I lost the thrill and Orkut is no longer an adiction in my case.

Some say, twitter helps in getting close to friends, read new posts from bloggers and so on. But What I think is , twitter is clutterng our thoughts. Being so simple, we are lured to twitter. If twitter helps an introvert to open his mind, or a marketer to get his idea acroos his customers it is doing something worthwhile.But one shouldn’t be adicted to anything, however tempting it maybe.

See you twice a week from now on, have a great day!

Every day I see, children watching movies which depict teen sex as sacred. How do they know it is not sacred unless someone tell them? 

Everyday, I see violence shown live. How do we expect children from doing the same.

I learned smoking and drinking is essential for social status from the advertisements and from movies, do we expect our teens to be of low social status?

I heard sex relieves tension, do we want them to be tensed all day long?

Unless we eradicate the root causes of evil there will be teen pregancies, smoking kids, killing teens.

“There is no use pruning the branches of a full grown oak tree, you have to prune it when it is young.”

   Whenever we are introduced to a new place, we will have to comply to the rules there. Most of these are so absurd that the people are forced to follow them. Sometimes the person who made these rules at the first place( for his own vested interests) may be long gone, but the people in his organization maybe following them even if these rules are just un necessary.

      The fear factor

Fear of seniors is the main thing which keeps us from breaking those useless rules which are forced on us. Most of the time the fear is just uncalled for.There is no place for fear in a revolutionary’s life. In a way you are protecting the rights of your co workers, and improving their way of life. If we are willing to face the consequences, there will be nothing keeping us from doing the needful. 

      Be your self

Most people who are very aggressive in tackling problems just become worn out as time passes. This occurs because there is no one to support or help them. Most of the time the person who is trying to break the rules maybe working by self. The reward will be the happiness which he sees on the faces of his friends. 

         How to overcome fear

Since there is no remedy for death so far, it will be better to die as a rule breaker, rather than somebody who died as a coward, fearing everything which came across.

There are many manupulators out there, who tries to bend every rule. But our case should be an exception because we are not trying to be a manupulator, but someone who uplifts a community. 

“Think different, be different” has alwas been my rule. Though I have broken it many times, I still believe in it. As the prayer goes

” Lord give me the power to change things which ought to be changed, the courage to accept things which cannot be changed and the wisdom to differentiate between them”

To be Contd…

A journey through different departments in medicine

When we think of relatives, the first thing that crosses our mind will be a close family relative, who is willing to help in our hard times. Those who have helped in a real on will be seen as good relatives. There are many such relatives who have helped me.

But  the relative I am talking about is Just relative. If someone says that their Job is real hard or the exam was hard, it is a relative. Easy and hard are two relatives. If the exam was relatively hard, I wouldn’nt worry much about it, because there are many others for whom the exam was as hard as it was for me or there are others for whom the exam was harder.Thus a relatively hard exam is easier to pass than a relatively easy exam.

Don’t bother much about life, meet everything the way they come. Don’t wait in painful anticipation and ruin your life.Get the maximum out of life and live it at the edge.

By chance if you see this,
And forget to say hi by chance,
I will forgive because it is just by chance,
But by chance if you don’t scrap me for months,
There is good chance that we stop being friends.

So chance is better if you scrap me today,
By chance if you or me miss the next day,
We won’t have to blame chance.

Among the inventions, reported in New Scientist magazine, is a cap that blows cold air across the scalp.

Other innovations include a chilling nasal spray and an icy lung injection. Many intensive care units across the UK now use cooling techniques to help heart attack patients after two major research studies showed significant benefits.

This “therapeutic hypothermia” is normally induced using cooled pads, ice packs or even injecting chilled saline liquid into the blood stream.

New devices such as a helmet which blows cool air across the scalp have been invented which help in reducing brain temperature even faster.Cooling brain significantly reduce brain damage in stroke patients according to studies.

Source: BBC news

Researchers said the effects can be seen even when levels of blood sugar, or glucose, are only moderately elevated, a finding that may help explain normal age-related cognitive decline, since glucose regulation worsens with age.

Since glucose regulation is linked with physical activity, regular exercise reduces blood sugar levels and helps improve the memory. Hence there is a direct link between exercis and memory.

In the study, researchers used high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging to map brain regions in 240 elderly subjects. They found a correlation between elevated blood glucose levels and reduced cerebral blood volume, or blood flow, in the dentate gyrus, an indication of reduced metabolic activity and function in that region of the brain.

The study was conducted by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center.

source:nytimes

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute looked at differences among women who had never used hormone replacement therapy because it may play a role in the development of cancer.“We speculate that what may be driving the increased risk among the obese is the surplus estrogen produced by the fat cells in the body,” said Dr. Michael F. Leitzmann, a former investigator at the National Cancer Institute and first author of the paper.

Oral contraceptive use and having had children are associated with a decreased risk of ovarian cancer, while a family history of the disease and hormone therapy use are associated with an increased risk.

This study has to be conducted in other parts of the world before the findings can be generalised according to the researchers.

The IKZF1 gene leads to three times incresed chance of relapse.The cure rate with existing treatment for children with ALL is about 80 percent. About a quarter suffer a relapse, and 30 percent of those children only survive up to five years.Doctors hesitate to routinely use intensified chemotherapy because of its toxicity, but knowing a child has this genetic abnormality might outweigh the risk.Screening for the IKZF1 gene can lead to better treatment of ALL and prevention of relapse.

Source:Reuters health