Think Pieces reviewed and written by Lakshmi and Seetha Ram

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-flags-off-first-train-on-315-km-section-of-eastern-dedicated-freight-corridor/article33443750.ece "Our past experience shows us that a country's infrastructure development should be kept away from politics. A country's infrastructure is not the ideology of any party, but the path of development of the country. If political parties want to compete, they should compete on infra quality, speed and scale," he said. Best regards Seetha Ram

Takeda chief urges transparency in vaccine rollout The Japan Times Dec 21, 2020 Read more... Lucky you. This email was sent to you by a user of PressReader, who thought you'd be interested in reading this story. It means you get to click the link and read it. It does not, however, mean you get any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property, copyrighted material, or trademarks of PressReader or any of our content partners. PressReader Inc., 200-13111 Vanier Place, Richmond BC V6V 2J1, Canada PressReader International Limited, 2nd Floor, The Boat House, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, D08 H01F, Ireland ®2003- PressReader, all rights reserved. |   Best regards Seetha Ram

Elegantly written. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/12/shorter-quarantines-could-help-prevent-coronavirus-outbreaks/ Best regards Seetha Ram

So well written.  Begin forwarded message: From: The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation <newsletter@randomactsofkindness.org> Date: December 19, 2020 1:45:55 GMT+5:30 To: keslsram@gmail.com Subject: Joy, Happiness and Healing Reply-To: The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation <newsletter@randomactsofkindness.org> Yes, this was a difficult year in so many ways. But, it was a year of growth, resilience and new connections. It was a time to be deeply grateful and reflective.

Quite interesting.  Dean Buonomano is a neuroscientist and researcher at UCLA who studies how our brains relate to time. "Time is incredibly important because, in many ways, the brain's most important functions are to predict the future," he explains. "Because the degree to which an animal predicts where there's going to be food or where there is going to be a predator or where there's going to be water or where it's going to find a mate determines the success of that animal. The brain is a prediction device." As our usual markers of time vanish, the days feel as though they've been whipped through a blender Covid-19, and its resulting effect on our lives, has stifled this instinct. Even thinking about the future conjures only a strange, fuzzy block because we know neither when this will end nor how different our world will look when it does. What we are doi...

The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194– at Oran. Everyone agreed that considering their somewhat extraordinary character, they were out of place there. For its ordinariness is what strikes one first about the town of Oran, which is merely a large French port on the Algerian coast, headquarters of the Prefect of a French department.     https://www.amazon.com/Plague-Albert-Camus/dp/0679720219 Best regards Seetha Ram

By  Rachel Buchholz , KIDS AND FAMILY Editor in Chief  In a year in which parents and teachers are (understandably) worrying about all the lost learning children might be experiencing after months of disrupted education, it might be a good time to think about all the things children  have  learned this year. Best regards Seetha Ram Begin forwarded message: From: National Geographic <ng@email.nationalgeographic.com> Date: December 14, 2020 0:31:33 GMT+5:30 To: keslsfamily@gmail.com Subject: FAMILY: What have kids learned from 2020? Reply-To: "ng@email.nationalgeographic.com" <ng@email.nationalgeographic.com> By Rachel Buchholz , KIDS AND FAMILY Editor in Chief In a year in which parents and teachers are (understandably) worrying about all the lost learning children might be experiencing after months of dis...

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/neuroscience-says-doing-this-1-thing-makes-you-just-as-happy-as-eating-2-000-chocolate-bars?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en Neuroscience Says Doing This 1 Thing Makes You Just as Happy as Eating 2,000 Chocolate Bars