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  The primary objective of this Pari talks blogspot.com is to draw out a smile from serious minded science lovers, and no foul language is used. L'objectif principal de ce blog Pari Talks blodpsot.com est de tirer un sourire des amateus de science serie'ux, acun langage grossier n'est utilise'. No.10. God Particle. P.K.Ghatak, MD A Nobel laureate Physicist, Leon Lederman wrote a book in 1990, and he titled his book - Goddamn Particle. Lederman was talking about 40 years of hard research to detect this subatomic particle. It was frustrating work because of the elusive nature of he particle. The existence of this subatomic particle was predicted by an Indian Physicist Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein in 1920. This very transient subatomic particle gives mass to all other subatomic particles before vanishing. The publisher of the book was a wise man. Anticipating bad publicity, he changed the title God Particle. Despite objections from the author and ot...

  Monoclonal Antibodies (MABs). The primary objective of this Pari talks blogspot.com is to draw out a smile from serious minded science lovers, and no foul language is used. L'objectif principal de ce blog Pari Talks blodpsot.com est de tirer un sourire des amateus de science serie'ux, acun langage grossier n'est utilise'. P.K.Ghatak, MD. No.9. Monoclonal antibodies are man-made antibodies produced from a single clone of one immune cell line. The monoclonal antibody(mAb) binds to a specific antigen. Monoclonal Antibodies are used in various illnesses, including cancer treatment. Additionally, they have further usefulness. Diagnostic Tests: A common test for infectious diseases, and even in pregnancy tests. Immunotherapy: They enhance the immune response against cancer. The fun part. The total number of MABs in use is huge and is hard to keep track of. Some 830 are in use in the USA alone. Those mAbs approved by the FDA for therapeutic use ar...

The primary objective of this Pari talks blogspot.com is to draw out a smile from serious minded science lovers, and no foul language is used. L'objectif principal de ce blog Pari Talks blodpsot.com est de tirer un sourire des amateus de science serie'ux, acun langage grossier n'est utilise'.   Crystal P.K.Ghatak,MD No.8. Crystal chandeliers, crystal vases, and crystal aperitif glasses are admirable objects, and many rich people display them to show their superior taste and wealth. We are discussing a different crystal here. Take a snowflake, or a grain of table salt, that type of crystal we like to break open here. Crystals are solid materials. When a crystal is broken down to its units, one can see the atoms or molecules are arranged in a highly ordered and repeating 3-D pattern. Crystals occur in nature; some examples are Quartz, Diamond, table salt, and Snowflakes. Crystals can be made in the kitchen, but are more commonly made commercially. Making Rock c...

      The primary objective of this blog, Pari Talks blogspot. com is to draw out a smile from serious-minded science lovers, and no foul language is used.     l 'objectif principal de ce blog Pari Talks blodpsot.com est de tirer un sourire des amateus de science serie'ux, acun langage grossier n'est utilise'. No. 7.   Black P.K.Ghatak,MD When sunlight or white light passes through a prism, it displays a rainbow color spectrum, but the black color is absent. Black is not a primary color. By mixing yellow, red, and blue colors, black is created. When eyes perceive no light is called black. Everything about black has a negative connotation. But back is as much an entity as other colors. If you ask a Buddhist monk what Nirvana is. If he is a follower of Nagarjuna, a branch of Madhyamika, his answer will be - “Shunyata”. Shunya means zero and not empty. This definition has a positive value. Other monks will differ and explain that Nirvana means the absen...

Hardest Thing to Break Open   The primary objective of this Pari talks blogspot.com is to draw out a smile from serious minded science lovers. And no foul language is used. L'objectif principal de ce blog Pari Talks blodpsot.com est de tirer un sourire des amateus de science serie'ux, acun langage grossier n'est utilise'. P.K.Ghatak,MD No.6 In September 1971, the British Medical Journal of Nutrition reported nails of malnourished children are harder than healthy adults. When malnourished children are fed, their nails turn softer. The main protein of the nail is Keratin, which gives nails their hardness. On a Mohs scale, the nails of a healthy adult have a hardness of 2.5, and a diamond has a perfect 10. Bones also have keratin, but keratin is not the main protein of the bones. DXA  scans of bones correlated well with brittleness of bones, a term used to indicate fracture risk, but Osteoporosis (weak matrix due to imperfection of keratin) is much more preva...

  The primary objective of this blog, Pari Talks blogspot.com, is to draw out a smile from serious minded science lovers. Above all, no foul language is used. L'objectif principal de ce blog Pari Talks blodpsot.com est de tirer un sourire des amateus de science serie'ux, acun langage grossier n'est utilise'. Arsenic. P.K.Ghatak, MD No. 5 Agatha Christi used arsenic 14  times in her crime stories. Arsenic is an often-used poison to murder opponents in many other countries besides the U.K., and not only in stories but also in practice. Here are some infamous stories of murder by arsenic poisoning. King Mithridates VI, who ruled a land, now known as Turkey, from 120 to 60 BCE, was the first recorded history of an arsenic poison victim. A 4th-century  Roman emperor, Nero,  murdered his stepbrother with arsenic to eliminate a serious rival to the Roman throne. The second-to-last emperor of the Qing dynasty ate a bowl of yogurt, and a few hours later, he wa...

The primary objective of this blog Pari Talks blogspot. com is to draw out a smile from serious minded science lovers. Above all, no foul language is used.     L'objectif principal de ce blog Pari Talks blodpsot.com est de tirer un sourire des amateus de science serie'ux, acun langage grossier n'est utilise'. No. 4 Buckyball P.K.Ghatak,MD.   Buckyball is a ball shaped molecule made up of 60 Carbon Atoms, and it also present in more than 60 carbon atoms forms. The full name of the Buckyball is Buckministerfullerence, or simply C60. Buckyball resembles like a soccer ball but you have to wait a long time before kicking this ball and if you do, you will have a compound fracture of your foot and ankle, because of its hardness and not willing to give-in even a micromilimeter. Now the fun begins: Recall the terms: Fullerene, Allotropes ( isotrope of the same element), Truncated Icosahedron, hexagon, and Polygon. Then remember Geodosic Dome, Vertex, and face. Then, th...

The primary objective of this blog, Pari Talks blogspot.com, is to draw out a smile from serious minded science lovers. Above all, no foul language is used. L'objectif principal de ce blog Pari Talks blodpsot.com est de tirer un sourire des amateus de science serie'ux, acun langage grossier n'est utilise'. N0.3   Schrodinger's Cat P.K.Ghatak, MD. Schrodinger's cat is not like any Persian cat, or even a Felidae domestica. This cat is the subject of a thought experiment that Schrodinger proposed in 1939. It is similar to Einstein's thought experiment of riding a light wave at nearly the speed of light, which came to his mind while looking at the clock tower sitting on his desk at the patent office in Bern. Schrodinger was trying to prove the central Paradox of the Copenhagen Quantum Mechanics, which states that a particle exists in a wave form, but it does not have a definite location until a measurement of its location is measured. But the process ...

                                                            M             The primary objective of this blog Pari Talks blogspot. com is to draw out a smile from serious minded science lovers. Above all, no foul language is used.      L'objectif principal de ce blog Pari Talks blodpsot.com est de tirer un sourire des amateus de science serie'ux, acun langage grossier n'est utilise'.                             No.2                                                 Our Guests The Mitochondria                               ...

                  The primary objective of this Pari Talks blogspot.com is to draw a smile from serious-minded science lovers, no foul language is used.       L'objectif principal de ce blog Pari Talks blodpsot.com est de tirer un sourire des amateus de science serie'ux, acun langage grossier n'est utilise'.      No.1                                                   A New Day                                                         Parimal K Ghatak. MD No.1 Psychologists say obstruction to admitting mistakes, even to oneself, is due to ego, fear of judgment, cognitive dissonance, and confirmation bias. However, at the end of the day, honesty and hu...