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Quote of the Week! Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit ,Wisdom is knowing NOT to put it in a fruit salad. Shaoor,a person's level of perception, knowledge, or mindfulness." "Formal Education such as PhD.is just acquisition of knowledge, doesn't always equal Intelligence, practical Wisdom or Commonsense(which Is not that common) and comes from learning but inflates ego in a person. Wisdom comes from Living, our own attention, critical thinking and accumulation and understanding facts and Truths and makes high-level application of knowledge and brings humility in a person" "Shaoor" (Hindi, Punjabi slang for awareness, consciousness, or understanding. It's used to describe a person's level of perception, knowledge, or mindfulness." -Tejinder Kamboj         (1940 -20??)

Sunday Special-The Lady who changed Mathematics! Sofia Kovalevskaya: The Woman Who Changed Mathematics Picture a little girl staring at wallpaper. Not flowers or pretty patterns. Math equations. When Sofya was eleven, her father was fixing up their Russian estate. One room ran out of wallpaper. So someone slapped up old lecture notes instead. Pages covered with strange symbols. Calculus formulas dancing across the walls. She didn't understand what those symbols meant. Not yet. But something about them called to her. Like they were speaking a secret language she was meant to learn.Her uncle noticed her fascination. He started telling her stories about infinity. About impossible circles. About numbers that went on forever. These weren't bedtime stories. They were pure magic to a girl whose mind was built for mathematics. By her teens, Sofya was teaching herself algebra late at night. When her father caught her, he was amazed. This daughter of his could solve problems that st...

  Corporal punishment involving hitting children with shoe by father was quite common in Indian subcontinent which  mothers can't do.This was considered a tool to inculcate wisdom in sons but not for daughters This shape of the shoe is  known as 'Jutti' Which people in Rural Punjab villges was a usual wear, prepared by cobblers residing in village itself  and  sold to villgers in exchage of grain, half yearly after harvesting.In cities as well ornamental Juttis  are still in fashion as  ladies wear on special occasions like marriages and festivals.and fairs.                    Almonds do offer cognitive benefits that support a healthy brain, which is the foundation for intellectual            pursuits and mental sharpness. This connection has led to the folk belief that almonds improve intelligence.  "Baap ka joota Badaam ki tarah hota hai,jitna khaaoegay  utni ak...

  Sunday Special!-India considers 'Entire World is One Family!' Science V/S Religion A  widowed daughter-in-law told her mother-in-law that she was three months pregnant. Hearing this, chaos broke out in the family.  There was an uproar in society, people gathered a village council (panchayat), and asked the daughter-in-law to reveal the name of the child’s father. In the middle of the gathering, the woman said that three months ago she had gone to Prayagraj, to bathe at the Triveni Sangam . While bathing, she invoked the Ganga and drank its water three times. It is possible that at that moment, some sage or holy man had released his semen into the Ganga, and along with the invocation, she consumed it—and that is how she became pregnant.The village head (sarpanch) said this is impossible no one can become pregnant by ingesting semen.The woman replied that our religious texts themselves show such things: that Rishi Shringi was born after sage Vibhandak’s seme...

  Jokes of the day! A man was flying from Seattle to San Francisco. The plane had a layover in Sacramento. The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft, the plane would re-board in one hour  Everybody got off the plane except one gentleman who was blind. Another man had noticed him as he walked by and could tell the gentleman was blind because his Seeing Eye dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of him throughout the entire flight. He could also tell he had flown this very flight before because the pilot approached him, and calling him by name, said, "Keith, we're in Sacramento for an hour, would you like to get off and stretch your legs? "  The blind man replied, "No thanks, but maybe my dog would like to stretch his legs.  "All the people in the gate area came to a complete standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane with a Seeing Eye dog! The pilot was even wea...

  Saturday Reading! The Creator of the Universe In gratitude of the Divine I  did not apply for anything. No one recommended me. Yet, I was gifted this miraculous body Without an interview, without merit; just pure grace. Blood flows ceaselessly from head to toe! Every heartbeat a  silent drum of life. I don’t know what kind of divine technology powers this system, but the heart never tires, never rests until it's time to go. Two eyes, like cameras of a thousand megapixels, Capture the ever-changing beauty of this world colours , lights, emotions; Retina How Much Megapixels Is The Human Eye Roger Clark How Much all etched into memory ! A tongue that performs ten thousand taste tests with precision…Skin, a living sensor, feeling heat, cold, love, pain a miracle of sensitivity! A voice box that expresses thought and emotion* through sounds of infinite variety.And ears that decode every frequency from whispers of the wind to the laughter of loved ones!And this body made of 7...