Personal Blog of Jayabrata Das

Feb 23

My Favourite Video Channels for Learning and Development

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In one of my previous blogposts named ‘Why Reading is Essential for Unleashing Your Potential?“ I discussed the ill effects of spending too much time in front of television. Since then a few people had asked me whether there are any positive effects of watching videos. Sure. Why not? I still believe that reading books are 100 times better than watching videos. However, in some cases, videos have an edge over books. For example, if you are trying to grasp some complicated concept, perhaps watching…

Feb 16

Bacteriophage: How A Forgotten Virus Can be An Asset to Combat Superbugs

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What is the first word come to your mind after hearing the word ‘Virus’? Disease, infection, infectious, harmful, etc. right. What if tell you there are viruses that can cure our diseases. Haven’t heard before! But there does exist such viruses, which are friendly to humans. Just like there are god bacterias, there are good viruses. These bacterias are known as ‘Bacteriophages’ or ‘Phages’meaning bacteria eaters. These are good because ‘Bacteriophages’ are extreme enemies of deadly bacterias which has the potential to kill us….

Feb 02

Medical Industry Vs Medical Science

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Have you ever been in a situation where your family has asked your opinion before taking an important decision? Although you were right at what you have suggested, your family neglected your suggestion and took exactly the opposite decision just because the majority of your family members support the opposite idea. Your knew from inside that what you said was absolutely correct and the wrong decision made is going to hamper your family in the future but you can’t do anything. This exactly depicts…

Dec 29

How to Live A Worthwhile Year

By Joy Health and Fitness, Personal Growth, Relationships, Social One Comment

Another year is going to end. In fact, this time a decade has come to its end. And like every time, most people at this point of time are busy retrospecting their life. How was their 2019, what went wrong, what went good, what new experiences this year brought to them? Whether this year is a good one or not so good one. This is the time when most people are busy making their new year resolutions. But how one decides whether the year…

Dec 15

The Art of Becoming A Buoyant Learner

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Do you know what ‘polymath’ means? Polymath, Renaissance man, multipotentialite these all have the same meaning. The above picture depicts the meaning perfectly. It means a person having the expertise or skilled at multiple things. Take Leonardo Da Vinci for example or Benjamin Franklin or Richard Feynmann. In fact, most people who left their impact in this world were all polymaths. There is a famous quote which says- “Jack of all trades, master of none” You must have heard about this or at least…

Dec 08

Haruki Murakami: The Story of a Maverick Writer

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There are always some people, whom either you adore a lot or you hate them. There is no in-between. You can’t say he or she is an average person. The average word just doesn’t suit. I always admire such people for their exclusitivity. Whether they are really good or worse but the thing about them is they are original. They don’t try to copy others, some might not like them but they never try to quench other’s satisfaction by losing their originality. In the…

Nov 24

Why Reading is Essential for Unleashing Your Potential?

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Have you ever wondered why we need to read books in our childhood and then write in the examinations to get a grade or whatever? Why reading and writing is the preferable medium for gaining knowledge? Why can’t it be just watching videos and then answer everything orally during exams? For most people, watching videos is much more fun than reading books. And it’s obvious as reading takes a huge amount of your mental energy while watching videos doesn’t. But honestly, I am not…

Nov 17

The Science of Loneliness and How to Win over it.

By Joy Health and Fitness, Personal Growth, Relationships, Science, Social 4 Comments

A few days back I was talking with one of my college friends over the phone. We were asking about each other’s life and how everything is going. He said ‘Everything is good but I am feeling lonely here most of the times’. At first, I didn’t take it seriously. In fact, I told him ‘you are surrounded by so many people, your family, your new friends, and many others, how can you feel lonely. On the contrary, I should feel lonely because I…

Nov 10

The Grand Journey of Voyagers in Space

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How do you feel when you look into the sky at night? Fascinating! isn’t it? Especially when I was a child, I used to wonder a lot about those bright stars visible in the sky. It spiked curiosity in my mind. How far are they? Does anyone live there? Can we go there? These are some common questions arise in our mind in our childhood. Unfortunately, as we grow up that curiosity dies slowly in most of us. We don’t wonder about the stars,…

Oct 27

Neuralink: The New Age of Human Brain

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Remember movies like ‘The Matrix’, or ‘Total Recall’. where humans were able to interact with computers without using a keyboard and mouse but merely utilizing their brains. All they need was some eletrodes to be inserted in the skull which can recieve the signals from your brain (specifically from neurons). It looked something like this. However, from movies when we come to real life, the question you probably pondering about is- is it really possible in real life? This collaboration between a device (machine)…

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My Favourite Video Channels for Learning and Development

Bacteriophage: How A Forgotten Virus Can be An Asset to Combat Superbugs

Medical Industry Vs Medical Science

The Art of Becoming A Buoyant Learner

Haruki Murakami: The Story of a Maverick Writer

Why Reading is Essential for Unleashing Your Potential?

The Grand Journey of Voyagers in Space

Neuralink: The New Age of Human Brain

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