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“The little bird entered its large mouth which was a big shock!

’cause the mouth was of the scary Nile croc’

It simply pecked the food between the wide tooth span! 

A quick bite for the bird and for the croc, a free dental plan!”

This fish called the pilot fish was seen following a trawler or a ship which had recently caught a shark! In fact the fishermen had seen the school of this fishes swimming along with the shark! It was as if they had lost a friend! 

That was in fact the case! How it is said that if you go to jail then befriend the biggest and the meanest guy in the jail and you will be assured protection till he or she is there! Of course the better thing would be to avoid going to the jail in the first place! Then of course you have my favourite movie called the Shawshank Redemption where you have another great partnership between Andy and the jailer! Even though these two relationship seem similar, they are in fact not the same or are they?! Read on! 

In the book called 30 days to a more powerful vocabulary by Dan Strutzel; he talks about Synergy and Symbiosis!

So Synergy refers to the interaction between two or more elements that results in a combined effect greater than the sum of their individual effects! This term is commonly used in business to describe the benefits of teamwork and collaboration. 

Synergy is often the primary motivation behind pursuing a merger! Combining the best of both worlds! It is like having your cake and eating it with cream! Shareholders can benefit from synergy, as a post-merger share price often increases because of the effect synergy has on the deal. 

We can also achieve synergy through factors like combined talent, combined technology, streamlined processes that allow for cost reduction and increased revenue. Here it has been seen that even Negative synergies can also exist! Here people or organizations can accomplish more if they work independently than when they work together. It is like division of labour and part of work to get the complete work done as a whole! 

Now coming to Symbiosis; this is a biological term that describes the close and often long-term interaction between two or more different biological species. It is a mutually beneficial relationship where both organisms benefit from the interaction. Symbiosis can take many different forms, including mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. In mutualistic symbiosis, both organisms benefit from the relationship, while in commensalism, one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed. In parasitism, one organism benefits at the expense of the other! 

The initial example of Pilot fish was an example of symbiosis and it has been seen that many species of shark have established an unlikely alliance with these pilot fish. So while the pilot fish helps to rid the shark of parasites and clean away fragments of food caught between their teeth, it benefits from protection against other predators. The companionship between these two species is said to be so strong which is probably the reason of following the ship which had caught its “Bodyguard!”.

It has been seen that synergism is among organisms allows for the creation of an effect that neither could create on its own. The relationship is not obligatory, and both organisms can survive independently! 

In fact in some context synergism is a part of symbiosis which makes it interesting! The final five types of five types of symbiosis will now be mutualism, synergism, commensalism, parasitism, and antagonism. Of course I do not need to evaluate antagonism since that is the relationship every human knows since his or her being aware of the world! Of course if you do not have antagonism with your enemies then you are just dull! Though of course if you have an arch enemy or nemesis then you may have either overdone it or maybe you are a marvellous super hero (or Heroine for that matter!) and you just do not know it yet! Thinking of Superheroes and Arch nemesis and even Marvel reminds me of the quirky Stan Lee who was an actual superhero in a symbiotic and synergistic relation with everyone!

Now form a symbiotic relationship with your bed and sleep!

Shubh Ratri!

“The poem was so good, the words were so profound!

The way he uttered them was so sound!

The judge was shocked though he did fake a grin!

The poem was in fact written by him!”

In so many blogs I have discussed how the wrong inventor has been given credit and the rightful person is either neglected or forgotten! I have a special passion for this since once when I was young (er!); I had entered an essay competition and I had read several books and met my English teacher to get good points for the same! Those lines are still fresh in my memory like, Sitting in this Dingy (the first time I heard that word actually!) was one! A guy was sitting just behind me who unknown to me copied those points verbatim! I was told later that a big discussion went in the staff room on whose paper was the original! Even now I vehemently thank my English teacher who supported me in spite of the fact that the other guy was the biology Teacher’s kid! And that is why when I do something I make sure I get the credit for it! But to take credit for someone else’s work is the greatest crime according to me!

So this guy was denied of the credit of not one but two big inventions! No, it is not Tesla who I am sure would have the actual claim to many inventions denied to him but this is an ancient dude!

One of the coolest weapons in the Doom Series is the flamethrower! This amazing weapon’s creation is is generally credited to Richard Fiedler, who submitted designs for two variants of the weapon to the German military during the early 1900s!

The uncredited inventor was actually the Kallinikos of Heliopolis. 

The concept of the flamethrower goes all the way back to ancient Greece. Early flamethrowers were described by Apollodorus of Damascus as coal-powered and were used in combination with acid to crack stone walls. However, Kallinikos of Heliopolis developed the first truly effective flamethrower dubbed “Greek fire,” the weapon was used by the ancient Byzantine Empire to cripple opposing ships. A tube-like device delivered both the fuel and the flame that would ignite it, creating the flamethrower effect that would later become so famous! So Apollodorus may have been the first but maybe he did not complete the design which can explain the injustice! 

But the injustice does not stop here! 

How everyone’s favourite past time is to simply go to a mall! Well the first shopping mall is generally credited to Victor Gruen, who was instrumental in designing and building the first mall in 1954! 

In addition to his work with flamethrowers, Apollodorus of Damascus is also believed to have developed a concept very similar while working as the architect of Rome’s famed Trajan’s Market!  The building encompassed a range of market stalls and covered shops in addition to apartment buildings, making it the first true urban hub. The ruins of the market and the Trajan Forum can still be seen to this day!

So the ruins of the first mall stand tall but the credit to Apollodorus has suffered a fall! Then again some legends do not need any introduction like the legend and pride of Karnataka Singanalluru Puttaswamaiah Muthuraj aka Dr Rajkumar! A quick pen sketch on the go! 

Now credit some sleep to your body!

Shubh ratri!

“T’was hiding behind those words!

A little pain and pricking like swords!

A complex sign here with a simple halitosis!

Ah! the effort it takes to reach a diagnosis!”

The other day a Patient came to see me after some years and I recognized him as an ex constable and that his son was studying in the engineering college! He was so happy! The reason why I actually remember him was because he had a severe on table bleed for a neck surgery and we had a tough time controlling the same! In all probability it was because of his anti platelet medication which he did not stop as instructed. 

Of course it was controlled and then it caused some additional days of stay in the hospital and then his son had rushed from his college to meet him out in the Operation theatre waiting room! 

Do you like it when your doctor recognizes you? It may not be a good thing though! Read on!…

So when a Doctor, especially surgeon recognizes you, more often than not it may be a special case or a complication! Of course there are exceptions but there is no way you would ever forget the cases which failed or did not meet your or the Patient’s expectations! 

One of my Professor in medical college was so well known for his people skills and everyone used to marvel at his memory recall of patients! That too it was the medical department and a busy one! He used to mention how in the corner of the Op sheet he would draw a small plane which indicated that someone from the Patient’s family used to live abroad! Then we realised he used to use these small tricks to find familiarity with the patients!

Most of the times when a doctor recognises an old patient, half of the work is done! When we ask stuff like how is the work in your bank or how’s the teaching job; it gives them confidence and ease! And a comfortable and happy patient will most of the time get better IN SPITE of your treatment! 

Of course now there are some doctors who either by memory or by observation can tell so many things about the patient that it feels magical!

In fact if you see the inspiration of Sherlock Holmes, probably the most famous detective in the fiction world; You would realise that the author Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a doctor himself! He had repeatedly though mentioned that he was inspired by another doctor who used to enthrall everyone by his powers of observations to tell stuff about patient’s even without asking them a single question! 

The name of the doctor will ring a Bell since his name was Dr Joseph Bell!

In his instruction, Joseph Bell emphasized the importance of close observation in making a diagnosis. To illustrate this, he would often pick a stranger, and by observing him, deduce his occupation and recent activities. These skills caused him to be considered a pioneer in forensic science, at a time when science was not yet widely used in criminal investigation. 

He served as personal surgeon to Queen Victoria whenever she visited Scotland. He also published several medical textbooks. Bell wrote the book Manual of the Operations of Surgery! 

According to Irving Wallace (in an essay originally in his book The Fabulous Originals but later republished and updated in his collection The Sunday Gentleman), Bell was involved in several police investigations, mostly in Scotland, such as the Ardlamont mystery of 1893, usually with forensic expert Professor Henry Littlejohn. Bell also gave his analysis of the Ripper murders to Scotland Yard! 

Even otherwise, if you think about it; Doctors are like detectives or sleuths who have to use their skills and power to detect what’s wrong give the proper treatment! The moment they listen to the history, a string of diagnosis would run through their minds which would be narrowed down with the examinations and tests in that order! Ideally a good doctor must be able to diagnose and treat with the most minimum of tests and the least number of medication!

No wonder some of the most famous authors who have written thrillers and stuff about complex emotions and technology are doctors! The list apart from Conan Doyle is rather long and includes Robin Cook, Michael Crichton, A J Cronin and even Khaled Hosseini! Now that is an amazing combination of brain and wit! A combination of wit and brawn though is Birthday Celebrity John Cena! 

Now pray that your doctor does not recognize you and sleep!

Shubh Ratri!

“So many colours t’was a big treat !
The prison was hard but sweet!
The one inside couldn’t wait to get out!
All you had to do was put it in your mouth!”

Who would have known that a chocolate was made or invented for war and mainly for soldiers! Read on!

One of the best chocolates when we were young (er!) were these cute little button like colourful things filled with chocolate in between!
The sweet and colourful and tasty GEMS!

They used to come is so many colours and there were two types of GEMS eaters! One type who were mostly in a hurry were the ones who would take a bunch and just stuff it in the mouth! They would bite the whole bunch and crack open the shell to get the sweet chocolate as soon as possible!

I was the second type at least most of the times! We used to take one GEM and place it gently on the tongue and slowly enjoy the outer sugar and colour coating! After a few minutes of slowly licking and sucking the coating will slowly melt away to reveal first a colourless (or white shell!) and then the dark chocolate! The tongue will first get coated with one colour which could be either red blue or green or other rarer colours if you are lucky and finally it will become brown!
There were also experts who could crack open the shell and chocolate inside separately! Some used to carefully separate the shell from the chocolate inside and eat them completely apart! Oh the joy of getting that perfect thin crust of candy with the rich thick chocolate inside!

Now of course my kids are more interested with the Exported version of Gems or M&M’s! These were the original chocolate candies which as history goes was made for war!

Forrest E. Mars, Sr was the son of the candy giant, Frank C. Mars, the creator of the Milky Way and 3 Musketeers candy bars! Forrest left his father’s company to start his own after their personal war (not the war that lead to the invention but maybe a start nevertheless!) .
It’s said that during his travels, he came across soldiers during the Spanish Civil War eating small pellets of candy-covered chocolate and that’s what gave him the idea to start his own!

Now during the start of the Second World War, sugar was in short supply in the USA and was therefore rationed. However, there was one company that got away with endless supplies of sugar: Hershey!

Hershey Corporation would provide chocolate for the troops (a delicacy and moral booster for them while they were out in the field!). Now Mars knew this and used this upper hand to make his new candy creation happen!

Now one more issue left! How to make the chocolates resistant and melt proof to an extent! Since they were in a war in the tropical climate! The solution: M&M’s patented candy coating! The candy became a hit with soldiers for their convenience and mobility. After the war, the candy still swept the nation and how!

Now each M is the initial of a different person. One is Forrest Mars and the other is Bruce Murrie, son of the founder of Hershey’s! Since it started a tsunami of counterfeit sweets, they printed the letters on the candy as a proof of genuinity! The two sides with the two Ms! Two side reminds me of the awesome portrayal of Two Face by birthday celebrity Tommy Lee Jones though his best is of course Men In Black and The Fugitive!

Now better to stay away from sweets and instead have a sweet dream!
Shubh ratri!

“It was on his face as it dripped down cold
Sweet and a familiar taste which was bold!
Lips were red, a look to make you scream!
Don’t fret! Its just an ice cream!”

In the heat of the of the summer, few things are more refreshing than a frosty, sweet popsicle. Some people just call these ice pops while we used to call them ice cream sticks. Did you know that Popsicles were invented by 11-year-old Frank Epperson and named after him! Now that does not make any sense! Must be brain freeze from the ice! Read on!

Now of course the thought of taking an ice cream or any icy treat is out of question and even the imagination makes me sneeze! Plus the calories! Not to mention the raw sugar and the artificial colours and flavours! Oh how did I become so old!

During our childhood though one of the best things about summer were these ice cream sticks! The mango and the orange flavours and different colours were a delight to us when we were young (er!). If our kids get to know what junk we have eaten am sure they will be shocked! How the ice cream bhaiyya would shake off all the flies and take out the ice stick from his old cart! I still remember how some ice cream used to be salty since he used to put salt on ice to make them melt slowly! Even that salty and sweet taste was like nactar!

The proper Ice cream or milk based ice creams like Kulfi were more costly and reserved only for house parties or special occasions only! The go to cheap ice creams were the sticks and later on these flavoured ice filled plastic sheets! You were supposed to bit one end and stick sucking slowly! If you think about the plastic and the storage now you would puke! At that time of course it was a sweet delight!

We have also tasted the iced lollies called the “Chuskies!” which is actually a play on Chus which means suck (of the eating kind!) and that used to come with so many flavours! The fresh crushed ice was a icy delight and the race was to suck the flavour and make it colourless before the ice melts!

On a hot summer day walking back to our house chatting with friends and later on showing our red or more orange tongue and lips were some of the unforgettable memories of the ice cream wala!

Even during holidays, the familiar ring of the bell of the cart of Ice cream wala would send us rushing behind him before the favourite varieties get over!
The other day I found my kids having a similar iced stick which was at least ten times the price of normal ice cream and proudly they exclaimed that it was, “The Popsicle!” If only they knew!

Now coming to The Popsicle! The story is that Frank Epperson had been stirring a drink with a stick but forgot it on the porch on a cold and icy night and it froze!
When he found it later, it was a frozen treat with its own handle and thus history was made. We have also done this so many times! Put the ice cream stick in a cup of juice and freeze it and voila! An icy treat!

But that was when he was 11, so it didn’t go anywhere and by the time he patented the idea as an adult, no one else had thought of it so he named them Eppsicles! That name and the treat did not go together for obvious reasons and his kids agreed!

No one wanted to eat an Eppsicle, and they never called it that!
Instead they called them popsicles because they were pop’s cicles, as in “Hey pop, make me one of your cicles.” So even though it’s not his given name, their pop took their advice and changed it! He was not only Frank he was also their Pop! Speaking of Pop reminds me of the dad of all cop shows CID starring the birthday celebrity Shivaji Satam!

Now take some warm water and sleep!
Shubh ratri!

“He was asked what he hankered!

His lips moved but no words were uttered!

Like the parched earth waited for the sweet rain!

He just wanted someone to take away his pain!”

Most of my snaps in social media will have me wearing a shade or sunglasses! It is not because how someone once said that the more My face is covered, the better it looks! The reason is different! 

Do you know what is common between Julius Caesar, Napoleon, JFK, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, Sunil Shetty, SRK, Mahesh Babu, Manoj Bajpayee, Serena Williams, Hugh Jackman and Me!

No, it is not that we all are hated or loved by many (which is still true!) but all of them (us!) suffered from this debilitating condition which may actually be one of the commonest symptom in the world!

In fact at any given time period it is the third most common disease in the world!

Do not worry! It is not depression (though again it may be there!); but the correct answer is Migraine!

If you actually talk about headache as such then almost every one has had a headache in his or her life at some point! Migraine of course is much more debilitating and though it is a diagnosis of exclusion, it is very exclusive!

There are some forms of Migraine which can even happen without headache and can cause even hearing loss or dizziness!

Migraine is one the oldest ailments known to mankind. Some of the earliest cases of painful headaches were recorded by the ancient Egyptians and date back as far as 1200 B.C. 

Much later, in around 400 B.C., Hippocrates referred to the visual disturbances that can precede a migraine such as flashing lights or blurred vision, which we call aura. He also described the relief felt by sufferers after vomiting! 

The credit for migraine discovery, however, was given to Aretaeus of Cappadocia who described in the second century the one sided or unilateral headaches that are typical of migraines as well as the associated vomiting and the windows of time between migraines that are symptom free. 

The word migraine was derived from the Latin word “hemicrania” meaning “half” (hemi) “skull” (crania). This term was first used by Galenus of Pergamon to describe the pain felt across one side of the head during a migraine. He also suggested that the pain originated in the meninges and vasculature of the head. 

In addition, he pointed towards a connection between the stomach and the brain due to the vomiting that seemed to be related to migraines.

In 1979, Moskowitz, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, proposed that migraines result from an interaction between the trigeminal nerve – involved in detecting sensations from the head and face – and the thin, pain-sensitive “meninges” membranes that surround the brain. He demonstrated that migraine attacks were triggered when trigeminal nerve fibres released chemicals called neuropeptides that caused the blood vessels of the meninges to dilate, resulting in inflammation and pain. He suggested that blocking the action of these neuropeptides could provide a new type of treatment.

Another breakthrough came when Goadsby, together with Edvinsson, a professor of internal medicine at Lund University in Sweden and the president of the International Headache Society, identified the key neuropeptide involved in triggering these attacks: calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)!

Goadsby and his colleagues have been awarded the Brain Prize for their research into the cause and treatment of migraines. The prize, worth 10 million Danish kroner ($2 million Cdn), is awarded yearly by the The Lundbeck Foundation in Denmark for outstanding and ongoing research in neuroscience! 

Now that is serious money which can keep at least some headache away!

For all the seriousness and debilitation migraine causes, you must also understand that this is one condition whose attacks can be prevented if you can get to know the triggers! 

That is where the shades come in! If like me, your trigger is the sunlight then shade away! Other triggers are some stuff which you can avoid, meals which you should not skip and sleep which you must have complete and good! Most of the time, hydration is the key and hiding from sun normally helps! Every person has his or her own Migraine trigger and recognising that it the key! I always say though that only those with a good head can have headache so having Migraine may make you a person with a great head! Tackling any condition and getting over it is the real deal which reminds me of birthday celebrity Nara Chandrababu Naidu. 

Now do not strain at the screen for long since even that can cause headache and ironically that headache shows you do not have ‘Head’!

Shubh ratri!

“She could have gored him he would not care

When it comes to emotions, it was all bare!

The heart was broken he had enough

The venom of her words were the most tough..”

Henry was born at Midway Manor in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England, the ninth child of Zachariah and his wife Lydia.

In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he perfected, with his own resources, an invention of what he called “spherical case” ammunition: a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air. He successfully demonstrated this in 1787 at Gibraltar!

He intended the device as an anti-personnel weapon!

In 1803, the British Army adopted a similar but elongated explosive shell which immediately acquired the inventor’s name! 

Until the end of World War I, the shells were still manufactured according to his original principles.

The ammunition invented by him used to cause multiple injuries and were a big cause of concern for the trauma surgeons all over the world! So much so that any injury with such an ammunition was a death sentence for those unfortunate enough to get hit by it!

You must have certainly heard the name of this time of ammunition or injury even if you are not a trauma surgeon or even a war veteran! In fact the name is so common that it is a part  of the dictionary and general vocabulary!

Henry’s full name was Henry Shrapnel!

Yes! The name of ammunition is shrapnel! 

Shrapnel of course by definition refers to fragments of something that has exploded, usually a bomb, but could even be from a gunshot or some other explosion that has sent pieces of dangerous debris flying. Those pieces are shrapnel!

Modern anti-personnel bombs are made using this concept, devices filled with things like ball bearings or nails that maim and kill in a much larger area than a single explosion by itself would! And you thought only bullets kill! Shrapnel and words can do much worse! 

In 1814, the British Government recognized Henry’s contribution by awarding him £1,200 (equivalent to £89,299 in 2021) a year for life! Due to some circumstances, he was not able to receive it apparently! Not everyone can be rich you see in spite of inventing literally a bomb! Being rich brings to mind Birthday celebrity Mukesh Ambani!  Of course he shoots up the stocks rather than bombs which is much better!

Now have a look at your Reliance stocks or Mutual funds and sleep peacefully! 

Shubh Ratri!

“She was told to meet the great Sage to get endure her fear!

It was so profound that none could bear!

The Sage used to live in a mountain near the clouds you can spy!

Little did the sage know that she had the fear of the sky!” 

Aries (incidentally my sun sign!); was the Greek God of war! A formidable God and powerful one at that! So imagine how his son would have been! Now when I say imagine, I do not mean take up your phone and do a Google image search since this is not about him but his son!

Well his son was a frightening and formidable guy! In fact he was so scary or fear inducing that warriors would paint his picture on their shields to give their enemies a real fright and to get them to run away in terror!

Sounds familiar! Not yet? Well, his name was Phobos!

Yes! The above reaction resembles someone terrified of something! Or as we commonly call it; PHOBIA!

Apparently the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates in one his works called The Seventh Book of Epidemics described a condition in a man named Nicanor.

Whenever Nicanor went out drinking, he would get terrified of the flute played by the musicians. As Hippocrates wrote, “When the piper began to play, the music immediately threw him into such a great fright, that he was not able to bear the disorder of it.” Now whether he was scared of the flute music or the shape may not be known since he used to be scared on it only at night or maybe he was just scared of 

But as we saw above since Hippocrates did not meet the God Phobos he didn’t actually come up with the term!

It took a Roman doctor to name that after the Greek god! The Roman was Celsus, who used the word hydrophobia (literally, water fear) to describe someone who seemed to have a horror of water! This is commonly seen in a particular disease and may not be that common now but any medical student who sees this one case would never forget it in his or her life! The pathognomic feature of this is that water or even cole air would induce severe painful spasm so much so that the patient would be terrified of it! The trademark of the dreaded Rabies!

Now, you will also think about Celsus and wonder if the unit of temperature in named after him! Well no! This temperature scale was invented and named after Swedish scientist Anders Celsius! ‘I’ is very important sometimes! But that is a story and blog for another day and I to save you from the phobia of blogs I would not overwhelm you with more details on Celcius!

Coming back to Phobia! It was of course left to dear Sigmund to give it some psychoanalysis. 

In 1895 he noticed that while some things squick (gross out) most people at least a little (such as snakes, death, or getting sick), other things only bother a few people!

Years later, Freud wrote about a little boy named Hans who, after being terrified by a horse in the street, developed a strong fear of horses! 

Other researchers of the time also began to speculate that phobias were distinct mental condition and of course they all had the phobia of not been taken seriously!

The first relatively modern use of the word phobia wasn’t until 1786, when (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) an unknown writer in the Columbian Magazine defined the word as meaning “A fear of an imaginary evil, or an undue fear of a real one.”

But it wasn’t until 1947 that phobias became a separate diagnostic category in the International Classification of Diseases and finally in the 1960s, it was observed that phobias basically divide themselves into three rather different kinds or categories: agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific phobias. 

Of course if you take a list of the most common phobias there will be so many lists that you will develop a phobia of lists! One such list states how Glossophobia is the number one phobia in America and is the fear of public speaking, with 25% saying they’d prefer to avoid speaking in front of people! Now look at this; Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest words in the dictionary — and, in an ironic twist, is the name for a fear of long words.

Also in case you are not yet phobic, Sesquipedalophobia is another term for the phobia! All right then, settle down; if you have phobia see a doctor but I am sure it will be the nursing assistant who will comfort you more! Talking of Nurse reminds me of Lalitha Pawar! Then again am sure after her eye injury she would have had a phobia of injury which in case you want to know is called traumatophobia!

Now turn off the light if you do not have fear of the dark and sleep!

Shubh ratri!

“He reached the top and was told to stop for a while!
He looked back contended and said with a smile!
This mountain was the tallest one and so high!
But my dear, my limit is not this hill but the sky!”

There are some who have already done great stuff or invented an amazing thing or even won the Nobel prize! Surprisingly just when you thought that they would take the win and get on, they try to get another Nobel! Or at least work for it!

Read about one who got Gold and still persisted to discover diamond!

Leo Hendrik Baekeland was a young lad at the time who received his doctorate maxima cum laude from the University of Ghent at the age of 21 and taught there until 1889, when he went to the U.S. and joined a photographic firm.

Then he invented Velox! This was a photographic paper that could be developed under artificial light! Velox was the first commercially successful photographic paper.
It was a slow, silver chloride paper which could be handled before exposure even under weak electric light or yellow gaslight. In a photographic darkroom it could be handled under a bright yellow safelight! This was gold for the photography industry and how! Later in 1899 Baekeland sold his company and rights to the paper to the U.S. inventor George Eastman for $1,000,000!

So now you will think he took the money and enjoyed! He of course did but then he went on to invent another material which has changed the course of tech and created a whole industry!

During that time, chemists had begun to recognize that many natural resins and fibers were polymers!
So Baekeland’s initial intent was to find a replacement for shellac, a material in limited supply because it was made naturally from the secretion of lac insects.
HIs first attempt was a soluble phenol-formaldehyde shellac called Novolak, but it was not a market success, even though it is still used to this day!

He then began experimenting on strengthening wood by impregnating it with a synthetic resin rather than coating it!
By controlling the pressure and temperature applied to phenol and formaldehyde, he produced a hard moldable material that he named Bakelite deservedly after himself!

It was the first synthetic thermosetting plastic produced, and Baekeland speculated on “the thousand and one … articles” it could be used to make!
Bakelite is manufactured in several forms to suit varying requirements. In all these forms the fundamental basis is the initial Bakelite resin!

Bakelite has a number of important properties. It can be molded very quickly, decreasing production time. Moldings are smooth, retain their shape, and are resistant to heat, scratches, and destructive solvents. It is also resistant to electricity, and prized for its low conductivity. So basically if you think of a thermosetting plastic then the first one is the Bakelite which is a dependable and strong material! Dependable also is the sobriquet of birthday celebrity Sanjay Suri!

Now set the temperature to a comfortable setting and sleep!
Shubh ratri!

This poem inspired by the very soulful song by the Journey called, “Still she cries!”

“All she wanted was to see him before she left!
Keeping her emotions in check she was adept!
She remembered all about him, all the joy and tear
He may not remember anything was her greatest fear…”


This effect is so part of our lives that it will blow your mind away!

Fiona Broome a well known writer and researcher told about her experiences and thoughts about Nelson Mandela and how he dies in the prison in the 1980s. So what you would ask?

Well, Nelson Mandela did not die in 1980! After serving 27 years in prison, Mandela became president of South Africa from 1994–1999 and he actually died for real this time in 2013!

For many people the first thing was true for a long time! This collective false memory is called the Mandela effect! The way we remember things in one way while the truth is something else!
In psychology it is called a collective false memory!

This is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened. Suggestibility, activation of associated information, the incorporation of misinformation, and source misattribution have been suggested to be several mechanisms underlying a variety of types of false memory.

There are several examples in the net which you can search in your leisure but these are ones which absolutely amazed me!

The main one which even I remember as everyone does is the Monopoly man the official mascot of Monopoly! I had written a blog on this couple of days back and I distinctly remember him to have a monocle! While in truth, the official picture and images do not have him with any monocle! Mind blowing!

Remember the famous line from Snow White: ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?’” Grab a chair and sit! The actual line is, “magic mirror on the wall!”

Remember Bugs Bunny and the cartoon logo called Looney Toons!?; well; it has always been spelled as Looney “Tunes.”!

Now the shoe brand which is very famous and known! Called the sketchers! Well, it has no “T”! It is written as “Skechers”!

Now remember the Pokeman character, Pikachu and his black tail which is like lightning!? Well, there is no black end! LIke the cold play song goes; “It is all yellow”!

Just a couple of more to make you question reality!

Did you ever notice that there is no hyphen in between “Kit” and “Kat,”! It’s just Kit Kat!

One of the most famous lines in the star wars was a line which is remembered wrongly! And enacted like that! It was not Luke, I am your father! “No, I am your father,” is the correct line!

Now the penultimate! The famous line by Hannibal Lecter which we all know! In fact Will in Will and Grace also tells it like how we remember! We remember Hannibal Lecter saying, “Hello, Clarice,”! Hold your horses! The actual dialogue spoken by him was, “Good morning.”!

The final one is something I always believed in! The mandela art! I used to think it is named after Mandela because it used to make him pass time in prison! I am not alone! It is not! In fact it is Mandala!
In Sanskrit language, mandala means “circle.” Traditionally, a mandala is a geometric design or pattern that represents the cosmos or deities in various heavenly worlds. “It’s all about finding peace in the symmetry of the design and of the universe,”!

Well, at least the finding of peace in art is true! Which I do by my sketch and blogs however busy the day was! That makes me a good boy and not bad boy! Bad boy reminds me of Birthday celebrity Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence! Another Mandela effect for me was that I remember Martin as War Machine in the first Iron man while in fact it was Terrence Dashon Howard! Say what!?

Now forget all these and listen to Still She cries! Lovely song and lyrics which may put you to sleep!
Shubh Ratri!