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• A comment on Talk: Max Little: A test for Parkinson’s with a phone call

  Aug 22 2012: Dear Max,
  I went to the website www.parkinsonsvoice.org to donate my voice sample- I was disappointed! There is no number in India- the world 2nd most populated country!
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  A reply on Talk: Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree

  Aug 13 2012: As I see, when we say teaching these skills to children- it means first and foremost the ability of the child to question- even it comes from highest authority- what s/he sees anomalous in the argument. Secondly & more importantly- s/he questions out of a deep yearning to discover & bring forth the truth. This questioning is not out of any ego-centric need.
  This can be taught to kids- right at home, where they are allowed , encouraged to question decisions of home-authorities with a true intention to learn the truth. The role of authorities at home would be to remain open to receive the questions from the child from its standpoint. The authorities have to make effort to see the frame of reference from where the question is arising in the mind of their kid.

• A comment on Conversation: Should we really care about the extinction of endangered species?

  Nov 22 2011: To consider ourselves powerful enough to halt/slow down a process like evolution would be very erroneously. Our intervention by protecting some species is merely what a Homo-sapien - as a species is meant or programmed to do. It is just like a Tiger is programed to hunt. Just like the Tiger fails or succeeds in its action to hunt, we as Homo Sapiens will succeed or fail in our doing. Our doing is our programming..... so it would be unnecessary to have a judgmental position over it.

• A comment on Conversation: Why evolution could never solve aging?

  Nov 22 2011: If evolution is seen as a process, then aging is a part of that process! From this perspective, "aging" no more is a problem to be solved. It is merely a part of the whole.
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  A comment on Conversation: What are the Top 5 things you can teach/share with a 6 year old?

  Nov 19 2011: My daughter's first fascination was the Moon- all I did was to go and share with her everything I knew about the moon, next I did was searched for pictures & stories about the Moon- then shared them with her. This went on for weeks together- which means till she had 'enough' of Moon. I let myself go with her fascination & would stop sharing about a particular topic when she stopped asking about it. The next thing she got fascinated about was the Horse. All I did was collected all the material I knew about horses and shared it with her. While I did all this, the intention was NOT TO TEACH anything. The intention was to EXPOSE HER TO INFORMATION & EXPERIENCE. So the axiom I follow is FOLLOW WHAT YOUR CHILD WANTS TO KNOW/LEARN. The rest of the things children merely absorb from you- mostly without you even being aware of!

• A reply on Conversation: If Veganism can reverse Diabetes, why isn't the mainstream medical field creating enough awareness about it?

  Mar 14 2011: Yes Daniel,
  I totally agree with you when you say, its up to us to make sure research gets done! Also, the possibilities of Vitamin defeciency is important but I am sure it is preferrable to take Vitamin supplements to antidiabetic drugs! Also I would like to mention Harrison's Textbook of Medicne Ed.17 has mentioned BOVINE PROTEINS as possible etiological agents in Type 2 DM.
  My personal experience bears out the effectiveness of Vegan diet inspite of stopping anti-diabetic drugs my GlycoHb has improved though gradually.

• A reply on Talk: Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids

  Dec 23 2010: Perfect! One couldn't have said it better!

• A comment on Talk: Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves

  Sep 16 2010: This videos is awesome, and I love the term MIE! Since I teacher doctors, I think this method is going to do immense good even to adults.