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Why Don’t People Do What Is Good For Themselves? | Mitakshara Medhi

Mitakshara Medhi Whenever I get into conversations with any of my friends who are into harmful habits, the replies are almost always...

Shannon & The Birth of Information Theory | Homanga Bharadwaj

Homanga Bharadwaj This is the story of Claude Shannon, the man who singlehandedly founded one of the most popular and widely utilized...

The Utopian World | Mitakshara Medhi

Mitakshara Medhi Burrhus Frederic Skinner, born on 20th March 1904, was a prominent behaviourist who believed that the existence of free...

Carrying Over Our Evolutionary Past | Mitakshara Medhi

Mitakshara Medhi Men go for a woman’s outer beauty, while women fall for a man’s money. This is, perhaps, the most sexist statement that...

Only Love is Real| Mitakshara Medhi

Mitakshara Medhi It has been well-established, now, that the mind-body problem has been the crux of debate for both Psychology and...

The Circus of Diagnosis| Mitakshara Medhi

Mitakshara Medhi In 1973, David L. Rosenhan conducted an experiment to check the validity of diagnosis in mental health institutes; more...

Consent of the Corpses|Mitakshara Medhi

Mitakshara Medhi The most interesting part of Psychology lies in the grey areas where seeking answer is almost a never-ending process....

Fuzzy Logic|Homanga Bharadwaj

Homanga Bharadwaj The multiple milestones of Artificial Intelligence have taken the world by storm ever since the advent of...

Why we owe DNS a big time | Vishal Raj Dutta

Vishal Raj Dutta Take a moment, and imagine life without a contacts list .Imagine having to remember the phone numbers of all those you...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Homanga Bhardwaj Artificial Intelligence is the science of development of computer systems that can mimic human actions like perception,...

Of the ‘Arts’ and ‘Sciences’

Mitakshra Medhi One of the most crucial battles that Psychology has had to fight is for a legitimate identity. Needless to say, the only...