जनवरी 2023 से डॉ. अपूर्व पौराणिक ने ऑनलाइन न्यूज़ पोर्टल ‘मीडियावाला’ पर एक साप्ताहिक कॉलम लिखना शुरू किया है – “अपनी भाषा, अपना विज्ञान” । इसके अंतर्गत विज्ञान की विविध शाखाओं से सम्बंधित लेख रहते हैं। व् कुछ समसामयिक महत्व के होते है। कुछ एतिहासिक और शाश्वत महत्व के होते है।
Mediawala.in पर डॉ. अपूर्व पौराणिक द्वारा प्रेषित लेख
- जय विज्ञान जय अनुसंधान – 27 – JAN – 2023
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apna-vigyan-hail-science-hail-research/
- ‘सोचा और कर दिया’ | मस्तिष्क – कम्पूटर का अंतरफलक – 02 – FEB – 2023
The second installment of my new weekly column : BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE“ You think it, the machine obeys“
https://mediawala.in/thought-and-done-brain-computer-interface/
- कृत्रिम न्यूरॉन कोशिका का निर्माण – 11- FEB – 2023
https://mediawala.in/our-language-our-science-creation-of-artificial-neuron-cell/
- चमत्कार – दूर से ही नमश्कार – 19 FEB – 2023
Why so many so-called God Man become famous with clips to miracles?
Why many men and women fall prey to apologetic explanations couched in scientific words? How to spot pseudo science?
https://mediawala.in/our-language-our-science-miracle-greeting-from-afarr/
- एक सिने स्टार और दो बीमारियाँ – 24 FEB 2023
A rare variety of dementia which initially presents as Aphasia. Story of a Hollywood star and need for more celebrities in India to come out in public with their disease
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apna-vigyan-a-cine-star-and-two-diseases/
- शुन्य से अनंत तक महाविस्फोट 02 MAR 2023
The sixth issue of my weekly column at Mediawala, “apni basha apna vigyan“ From Nothing to Infinity- the Big Bang and eternal expansion
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apna-vigyan-big-bang-from-zero-to-infinity/
- सोनोरन – एक रेगिस्तान का वनस्पति विज्ञान – 09 – MAR – 2023
My seventh write up as a weekly column for the portal ‘Mediawala’. This time it botany of the flora in Sonoran desert, south western USA
https://mediawala.in/our-language-our-science-the-sonoran-botany-of-a-desert/ - चैट जीपीटी और भाषा विज्ञान – 19 – MAR – 2023
I d well upon limitations of AI – Chat GPT in terms of Linguistics and Morality and Ethics, while quoting a recent essay by eminent linguist Noam Chomsky
https://mediawala.in/apanee-bhaasha-apana-vigyaan-chat-gpt-and-linguistics/
- माँ और शिशु का सूक्ष्म जीवाणु संसार – 27 – MAR – 2023
I report some recent research related to the gut micro-biome shared between mother and newborn baby and it’s implications for growth, development and immunity.
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apna-vigyan-the-microbe-world-shared-by-mother-and-baby/
- प्रकृति में कितना स्वार्थ कितना परमार्थ – 31 – MAR – 2023
My tenth entry for online portal Mediawala’s weekly column “apni basha apna vigyan“.
This time I talk about ‘ going against nature’ and ‘ playing god’ and its utilities for human beings and nature
https://mediawala.in/apanee-bhaasha-apana-vigyaa-how-much-selfishness-in-nature-how-much-altruism/
- भली भली सी उल्टी गंगा 8 – APR – 2023
My 11th post in the weekly column at online news portal MEDIA WALA about Embryology and Stem Cell research along with an old article by me on misuse of stem cell treatments which unfortunately is still true.
I also touch upon what factors determine the type of research funded or prohibited in different countries in different times.
https://mediawala.in/apni-language-apni-science-ganges-vomits/
- विज्ञान – कितना सार्वभौमिक कितना स्थानीय – 27 – APR – 2023
My 12th issue of column on SCIENCE at online portal MEDIAWALA .
I talk about UNIVERSALITY versus LOCALISATION of Science
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apni-vigyan-science-how-universal-how-local/
- आवाज का चाकू – ध्वनि विज्ञान 5 MAY 2023
Can sound cut like a surgeon\ Can it burn a piece of tissue deep inside brain with a precision of less than one millimetre \ Can it abolish tremors of many years in a few seconds\ Learn about an amazing new treatment: FOCUSSED ULTRASOUND FOR PARKINSONISM in the 13th issue of my weekly column apani bhasha apana vigyan
हम सब ने मेडिकल जांच के रूप में अल्ट्रासाउंड या सोनोग्राफी का नाम सुना है। कभी सोचा है इसमें क्या होता है, कैसे होती है यह जांच। साउंड अर्थात आवाज या ध्वनि। अल्ट्रासाउंड मतलब पराध्वनि।_
*सुप्रसिद्ध न्यूरो फिजिशियन डॉक्टर अपूर्व पौराणिक का कॉलम*
https://mediawala.in/apanee-bhaasha-apana-vigyaan-knife-of-sound-phonology/
- विज्ञान में मेरिट और समाज विज्ञान – 14 MAY 2023
A much needed pushback against currently fashionable but perverted and flawed ideologies of Critical Social Justice, Post Modernism, Multiculturalism, Critical Race Theory, Primacy of subjective ‘ lived truth’ over empirical objective truths, Intersectionality, Oppressor versus Oppressed Dichotomy, by 28 eminent scientists including Nobel Laureates who have written a well researched, well referenced, well argued article:
जलवायु परिवर्तन के खतरे और परमाणु युद्ध की आशंका हमेशा बनी रहती है।आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस के दुष्परिणामों की हम कल्पना नहीं कर पा रहे हैं। अगली महामारी कब और किस रूप में आएगी,हम नहीं जानते, इन सब का सामना करने के लिए हमें और अधिक और बेहतर विज्ञान चाहिए।श्रेष्ठ कोटी का विज्ञान!
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apna-vigyan-merit-in-science-and-social-science/
- स्टेम सेल्स – Hype या Hope 21 MAY 2023
Despite warnings and advisories by national drug agencies and Indian Council of Medical Research, rampant misuse of so-called STEM CELL THERAPY is advertised, marketed and administered to gullible patients robbing them of hundreds of thousands of rupees.
My ten year old article at my website – neurogyan.com is being republished here. The situation is still the same. ‘स्टेम सेल्स : Hype या Hope’
‘स्टेम सेल का विचार निसंदेह महत्वपूर्ण है। उसमें संभावनाएं हैं। शोध अभी आरंभिक स्तर पर है। स्टेम सेल द्वारा बहुत कुछ कर पाना संभव है लेकिन यह कितना सफल होगा या नहीं, कोई नुकसान तो ना करेगा- मालूम नहीं!’
https://mediawala.in/our-language-our-science-stem-cells-hype-or-hope/
- वायु का विज्ञान – हवा हवाई? नहीं, ठोस 28 MAY 2023
There is nothing airy or lightweight about the science of Air Pollution.-In this 16th episode of my weekly column अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान at online news portal- मीडियावाला
I describe many aspects of interrelationships between Air and Health. I conclude on an optimistic note that growth and development in economy and science-technology are the only hopes to keep solving environmental and health issues.
वायु का विज्ञान – हवा हवाई? नहीं, ठोस ‘मारुतं धारयेत स्तुत मुक्तो मात्र संशयः ।’ वायु का संयम करने से मनुष्य मुक्त हो जाता है, इसमें सन्देह नहीं – ‘उपनिषद्’
https://mediawala.in/apna-bhasha-apna-vigyan-science-of-air-hawa-hawaii-no-solid/
- ओलम्पिक रिकार्ड्स कब तक टूटते रहेंगे – 5 JUNE 2023
Is there any limit to breaking of Olympic records
Human bodily performance cannot be limitless.
Yet we see constant breach of records.
What does sport science has say about it.
A brief peep into the factors like coaching, better techniques, doping (steroids), larger and more varied pool of populations and genomics. Ultimately we have to confront dilemma of Ethics and Morality behind the quest or audacity of artificial genetic engineering.
https://mediawala.in/your-language-your-science-how-long-will-olympic-records-continue-to-be-broken-sports-science/
- सूर्य हनुमान जी के मुंह से निकल कर ताप भट्टी तक – 12 Jun 2023
My 18th essay for weekly science column at online news portal Mediawala is in the wake of a new promising development in the quest to harness thermonuclear energy from fusion of hydrogen into helium. Hopes keep rising and dwindling in the long arduous journey. Each report about some “breakthrough“ is to be tempered with realistic assessments.
‘सूर्य – हनुमानजी के मुख से निकल कर ताप भट्टी तक’ धरती पर एक सूक्ष्म सूर्य का निर्माण कैसे हुआ? मनुष्य की ख्वाहिश रही है कि वह सूर्य की ऊर्जा का संधारण कर पाए। शायद बाल हनुमान ने ऐसा ही कुछ सोचकर सूरज को मुंह में भर लिया होगा। यह क्षणिक सूरज एक डब्बी में बंद था।
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apni-vigyan-surya-emerging-from-hanumanjis-mouth-to-the-furnace/
- लिपि का भाषा विज्ञान 25 JUNE 2023
The neuroscience of reading and evolution of scripts is a fascinating subject with many advances through functional Neuroimaging, electrophysiology and new theories in linguistics. I present some glimpses of the field touching upon the fact of reading skill not being a part of Darwinian evolution through natural selection, correlations between brain and linguistics, and finally expressing my sadness that we are loosing not only our Hindi but also the Devanagari script Is it really a matter of despair?
I don’t know. मानव मस्तिष्क जन्म से हार्ड वायर्ड होकर आता है भाषाएं सीखने के लिए। दिमाग की हार्ड डिस्क में सर्किट पहले से उकेरे हुए हैं (न्यूरॉन परिपथों के रूप में) उन पर ‘कोडिंग’ करने की जरूरत है!
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apni-vigyan-linguistics-of-the-script/
- हमने देखी है इन आँखों की महकती खुशबु – 02 July 2023
The 20th, Weekly instalment of my column ‘अपनी भाषा, अपना विज्ञान’ at online news portal ‘मीडियावाला’ is about a peculiar phenomenon seen in approximately 5% of population & SYNESTHESIA. – While perceiving a sensation (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste) these people get automatic elicitation of any other sensation. They see colours and shapes while listening to sounds, palpating textured surfaces, reading words & numbers. Many permutations and combinations are possible. Some common, some rare. Synesthesia is a consequence of more than & normal neural connections between different sensory areas in the brain. Please write back if you have such a propensity and fill up the google form https://forms.gle/mrRmEhcFC4ANatTu5
जो सुना, जो देखा, छुआ, सूंघा ,चखा, उन सब की प्राथमिक अनुभूति की अगली पायदाने होती है। उन आवाजों, दृश्यों, स्पर्शों , गंधों , स्वादों के निहितार्थ उभरते हैं।उनसे जुड़ी स्मृतियां सजीव होती हैं, गूढ़ विचार जन्मते हैं।
‘आइए हम सब उत्सव मनाएं अपने अंदर के गुलजार का…..’
https://mediawala.in/our-language-our-science-we-have-seen-the-fragrance-of-these-eyes/
- चेहरा ये खो जाएगा – 07 July – 2023
Evolutionary Neurobiology has invested heavily in the perceptive skill of recognition and memory of human faces. The later are central to one’s identity. Hence when that natural facility is not well developed or degraded in someone, that’s a great handicap. In the 21st episode of my weekly column “अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान” at the online news portal मीडियावाला I talk about a peculiar and not very rare ailment PROSOPAGNOSIA or “Face Blindness
‘मनुष्य एक सामाजिक प्राणी है और जिंदा रहने के लिए डार्विनियन विकास यात्रा में जरूर वही जिनेटिक वेरिएशन सफल रहा होगा जिसने चेहरे पहचानने की क्षमता को बढ़ाया होगा। हमारा फेस हमारी व्यक्तिगत पहचान होता है वरना फेस-लेस इंसान का क्या काम?’
https://mediawala.in/our-language-our-science-its-face-will-be-lost/
- हिन्दी में विज्ञान संचार एवं पत्रकारिता – 14 – July 2023
Science Communication and Science Journalism are crucial to inculcate scientific temper and mode of thinking in society. It has immense bearing upon policy making. In 22nd essay of my column अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान at the online news portal मीडिया वाला I discuss challenges faced by science communicators and journalists working in Hindi and other Indian languages.
विज्ञान के क्षेत्र में हिंदी में लिखने वालों को अपने बुद्धिमान व पढ़े-लिखे पाठकों की क्षमता पर संदेह नहीं होना चाहिए। यदि आपकी भाषा शैली प्रांजल और प्रवाहमय हो तो लोग सुनते हैं,पढ़ते हैं, गुनते हैं,समझते हैं, सराहते हैं, आनंदित होते हैं।
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apna-vigyan-science-communication-and-journalism-in-hindi/
- फिल्म हिचकी में रानी मुखर्जी: टूरेट सिंड्रोम और टिक्स 21-July 2023
Have you ever noticed that all of us make a few unnecessary involuntary movements in one or other parts of the body, every now and then?
Yes we do. Some of us are more fidgety or restless. But there are a very small number of people in whom the urge to move a bit again and again is rather overwhelming and persistent. The 23rd contribution to my weekly column अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान is about an intriguing ailment known as TICS and TOURETTE SYNDROME.
Initially it was thought to be a psychological weakness of lack of control. Now we know it is a neurological disease in the category of Movement Disorders.
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apna-vigyan-rani-mukerji-in-the-film-hichki-tourette-syndrome-and-tics/
- इतिहास धर्म व कला के आईने में मिर्गी 30 July 2023
The subject of HISTORY has many sub-disciplines. ‘History of Science’ is one of the lesser-known ones. While it is important to be updated with the latest developments in the branch of science of your specialisation, it helps if you also know the history of the evolution of knowledge, theories, concepts, personalities, conflicts and debates in that subject. The history of science makes for fascinating reading. In the 24rd installment of my weekly column ‘अपनी भाषा -अपना विज्ञान’ at the online news portal MEDIAWALA, I talk about a common, often misunderstood neurological illness Epilepsy as reflected in the mirrors of history, religion and arts.
मिर्गी के अनेक उदाहरण प्रस्तुत करने का उद्देश्य इस रोग को गौरवान्वित या महिमामंडित करना नहीं है। रोग बुरा है, पर कितना बुरा? उतना नहीं जितना कि लोग सोचते हैं। हर बुराई में भी कुछ अंश ऐसे होते हैं जो तुलनात्मक रूप से अच्छे होते हैं।
https://mediawala.in/apni-language-apni-science-epilepsy-in-the-mirror-of-history-religion-and-art/
- समुद्र विज्ञान में नदियों का महत्व 06 August 2023
The Ocean Is Missing Its Rivers. For billions of years, rivers connected continents to the sea. Then we came along. In a rhythm that’s pulsed through epochs, a river’s plume carries sediment and nutrients from the continental interior into the ocean, a major exchange of resources from land to sea. More than 6,000 rivers worldwide surge freshwater into oceans, delivering nutrients, including nitrogen and phosphorus, that feed phytoplankton, generating a bloom of life that in turn feeds progressively larger creatures. They may even influence ocean currents in ways researchers are just starting to understand. But today, in rivers around the world, humans are altering this critical phenomenon.
In the 25th tranche of my weekly column अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान at news portal MEDIAWALA, I discuss the anthropogenic effects (good and bad?) on the delicate relationship between rivers and oceans. ‘ताल मिले नदी के जल में, नदी मिले सागर में, सागर मिले कौन से जल में, कोई जाने ना!’
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apna-vigyan-importance-of-rivers-in-oceanography/
- अमृतकाल में विज्ञान 18 August 2023
One of the Directive Principles in our Constitution is that the state shall make efforts to inculcate and enhance “ SCIENTIFIC TEMPER” amongst citizens of India. What a laudable goal!
On the occasion of our Independence Day, I express my wishes, desires and dreams for the forthcoming 25 years of अमृत काल wherein we will be a top scientific country in world.
I also suggest some action plans in my 26th episode of my weekly column अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान at the online news portal मीडियावाला
‘विश्व गुरु बनने के लिए पुरातन आध्यात्मिक धरोहर पर्याप्त नहीं है, आधुनिक भौतिक ज्ञान में अग्रिम पंक्ति में दौड़ना अनिवार्य है।’
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apni-vigyan-science-in-immortality/
- इंदु देश और चन्द्रविज्ञान 27 August 2023
What is the significance of finding traces of water on moon? Does it enhance our understanding of evolution of planets and life upon them? Let us bask a bit more in the glory of Chandrayan, Vikram and Pragyan in 27th submission of my weekly column अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान at online news portal मीडियावाला.
‘वैदिक युग के यज्ञों की अग्नि से लेकर चंद्रयान के रॉकेट की अग्नि तक एक निरंतरता है। हमारे ऋषि वैज्ञानिक थे। आज के वैज्ञानिक भी ऋषि हैं।’ ‘जानिए चंद्रमा हम पर क्या असर डालता है।’
https://mediawala.in/our-language-our-science-indu-desh-and-chandra-vigyan/
- चेतना का न्यूरोविज्ञान 5 September 2023
https://mediawala.in/our-language-our-science-the-neuroscience-of-consciousness/ - न्यूरोज्ञान व्याख्यान माला 17 September 2023
मानव काया और उसमें स्थापित मस्तिष्क के अंदर और उसी के द्वारा चेतना को हमें समझना है। इसी विषय की विस्तृत व्याख्या सुप्रसिद्ध न्यूरो फिजिशियन डॉ अपूर्व पौराणिक ने अपने इस कॉलम में की है।
https://mediawala.in/our-language-our-science-neuroscience-lecture-series/ - नमकीन विज्ञान 23 September 2023
https://mediawala.in/your-language-your-science-salty-science/ - संदेशवाहक जब स्वंय सन्देश हो 10 October 2023
It makes a fascinating story. An immigrant woman scientist, working in a male-dominated science establishment in the USA, not getting a green card for more than a decade, her grant proposals getting rejected again and again, her insistence to keep working in a field considered by authorities as un-important, demotion from the post of a professor to research assistant, struggling and accepting the humiliating job offer to support the education of her bright daughter, a chance meeting with another scientist who appreciates her work and vision in the area of mRNA, And as they say, the rest is the history, studded in the columns across the globe. In my 30th weekly column at the online News Portal Apani Bhasha Apana Vigyan, I give a brief description of the messenger RNA, its importance in cell biology and now apparent great therapeutic potential.
https://mediawala.in/your-language-your-science-when-the-messenger-is-the-message-itself/ - आँखों ही आँखों में 22 October 2023
Look look into the eyes. There is a lot to see there !!
Simple light camera and infrared cameras are getting better and better. Coupled with advances in software, it is now possible to extract lot of information,analysis and inferences from minute movements of eyes and pupils which relate to wide variety of subjects in medical diagnosis, psychology research, forensic sciences etc.
the 32st episode of my fortnightly column अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान at online news portal MEDIAWALA briefly informs about some such uses and the technology behind them.
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अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान: आँखों ही आँखों में नई टेक्नोलॉजी के माध्यम से नैनों की चंचलता को कैमरे से पढ़ना और कुछ कुछ खास निष्कर्ष निकालना आसान हो गया हैं। कंप्यूटर और स्मार्टफोन के सेल्फी वाले केमरे लगातार बेहतर होते जा रहे हैं। आंख के गोले, पलक और पुतली की छोटी-छोटी हरकतों को वे एक सेकंड के एक हजारों हिस्से तक कैच कर लेते है।
https://mediawala.in/our-language-our-science-eye-to-eye/ - पतझड़ के रंग 6 November 2023
An eye for beauty and an ear for science, both can and must co-exist for all of us.
Ultimately everything blends in brain like the seven or more colors of sun ray blend into a sparkling white.
What better a season then the autumn or fall with its spectacular splendor of colors to muse upon its basics in physics and chemistry.
It’s a joy to realize that the science of changing colors of departing leaves is as enchanting as the riotous rhapsody of shades on display across miles and miles of landscapes.
The 33st episode of my weekly column अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान at the online news channel Mediawala foray into the world of colours.
“रंग-बिरंगे पत्ते चाहे शाखाओं पर हो या हवा में तैरते हुए उतर रहे हो या धरती पर मोहक डिजाइन बनाते हुए बिछ गए हो, अपने अंदर एक गरिमा लिए होते हैं। खुश रहना प्यारों ,हम तो सफर करते हैं।” मानो एक सुहागन, सज धज कर अंतिम प्रयाण कर रही हो!
https://mediawala.in/your-language-your-science-colors-of-autumn/ - आतिशबाजी 16 November 2023
Fireworks in general and firecrackers in particular are noisy, messy, polluting stuff, to be shunned by sane, conscientious persons.
Yet their lure does not seem to ebb away.
Why are they so enchanting despite being reminded and reprimanded for their downside.
What makes a firework better? What is the Chemistry, physics and psychology behind them.
I try to seek answer to such questions in 34nd fortnightly or weekly column अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान at online newsportal ‘mediawala’.
https://mediawala.in/your-language-your-science-fireworks/ - प्रकृति और संस्कृति 12 December 2023
An age old debate
Nature versus Nurture?
How the pendulum keeps swinging to and fro across the ideological spectrum?
The nativists held the sway for many centuries perpetuating evil mindsets of racism, while supremacy, casteism, male chauvinism, eugenics and culminating in Nazi holocaust.
A righteous backlash in 20th century has now resulted in another extreme way of thinking.
The Blank Slate Theory – Which utterly denies the existence of human nature and biology.
Its horrible consequences have been in the form of Stalins, Mao’s and Ayatollahs.
In the 35nd, a longish and difficult episode of my monthly or fortnightly column in
अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान at online news-portal MEDIAWALA I argue that it is possible and desirable to tread a middle path of nature AND nurture.
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अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान : प्रकृति और संस्कृति
किसी व्यक्ति के विकास और व्यवहार को ढालने में प्रकृति और संस्कृति की महती भूमिका होती है। इस संदर्भ में ‘प्रकृति’ और ‘पुरुष’ को समझना चाहिए!
https://mediawala.in/your-language-your-science-nature-and-culture/ - “न्यूरो”- के वर्ण- संकर रिश्ते 16 January 2024
I have often been wondering how come the ‘ Neuro-‘ prefix gets joined with so many branches of not only the medical sciences but even with apparently unrelated subjects of HUMANITIES.
All such sub disciplines are not for namesake. They are rich and profound, having many books, journals, associations and conferences.
As neurones reach out to far far buddies, so do the subject of neuroscience.
In the 36rd episode of my now monthly column at MEDIAWALA , I proudly flaunt the multifarious connectivity of NEURO
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कहते हैं ‘सबै ज्ञान न्यूरो ज्ञान’। क्योंकि समस्त ज्ञान की निष्पत्ति और भंडारण मस्तिष्क में ही होती है। अतः यह सहज संभाव्य है कि कठोर खोपड़ी में भरे हुए सवा किलो के मांस के नरम लौंदे में ऑटोमेटिक तार जुड़ते जाते हैं। विज्ञान और कलाएं, दोनों ही क्रीड़ा स्थली या लीला स्थली अंततः मस्तिष्क है।
https://mediawala.in/your-language-your-science-hybrid-relationships-of-characters-of-neuro/ - रत्न-विज्ञान और मिथ्याविज्ञान 24 February 2024
Gems, jewels, gold, many other precious stones and metals have bewitched, mesmerised, captivated human desires and imaginations since the dawn of human civilisation.
My 37th write up for monthly column अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान at the online news portal मीडिया वाला briefly sheds light on the geology of some stones.
As always I try to blend science with arts and humanities.
I express my serious anguish against the pseudoscience myths perpetuated about so-called magical super natural properties of gem stones.
https://mediawala.in/your-language-your-science-gems-science-and-pseudoscience/ - भाषा बहता नीर – भाग 1: भाषा विज्ञान और न्यूरोलाजी 21 March 2024
Dear Friends,
The theater or stage for the play of language is human brain.
Players are human beings, not in isolation but in company of each other.
The science of language ( Linguistics ) and the science of brain ( neurology ) have a romantic relationship which gives birth to a few dozen rules of grammar, about six thousand languages across the globe, a dictionary of approximately 50 thousand words in the mind of an educated adult and Infinite number of unique sentences.
This marriage gets dents and jolts in brain diseases.
In this first installment of my two part coverage of exposition “भाषा बहता नीर” (language is a stream) discuss some aspects of neuro- and psycho- linguistics as 38th contribution to my column अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान at the online news portal मीडियावाला
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अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान :
भाषा बहता नीर – भाग 1- भाषा विज्ञान और न्यूरोलाजी
सुप्रसिद्ध न्यूरो फिजिशियन डॉ अपूर्व पौराणिक का कॉलम
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apna-vigyan-bhasha-bahata-neer-part-1-linguistics-and-neurology/ - सूर्य ग्रहण — 08 April 2024
Dear Friends,
Eclipses have always fascinated me. To watch a Total Solar Eclipse has been an ardent desire.
Now that opportunity has arrived.
I will be flying thousands of miles in four hours from one end of Canada to the other. From Victoria, BC, to Niagara Falls in Ontario to have a “once in a life time experience”of TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, ( clouds permitting).
We hardly pay much attention to cloud conditions in weather forecasts, but for last few days, I have been anxiously following.
Clouds may create an anticlimax for millions of viewers thronging on the banks of majestic falls.
Come what may, I and my Samadhi ji Professor Mahendra Kotha ji have taken the plunge.
In the meantime, please read my 38th essay as a part of my monthly column at online news portal मीडियावाला. On सूर्य ग्रहण.
Stay tuned for my write up about my experiences and some photos and videos.
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Solar Eclipse:
अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान- सूर्य ग्रहण
अमेरिका और कनाडा में वैज्ञानिकों के अनेक दल उन्नत दूरबीनों और सुपर कम्प्यूटर्स की मदद से 8 अप्रैल को ग्रहण वाले दिन कोरोना के चित्रों और उसकी विशेषताओं की भविष्यवाणी के अभी से मॉडल बना रहे हैं। नाना प्रकार के मॉडल और उनकी गणनाओं के फॉर्मूलों और समीकरण में से कौन सा कितना सटीक बैठा – इसका विश्लेषण कर के भविष्य के अनुमान की बेहतर प्रणालियों विकसित की जाएगी।
कनाडा से डॉक्टर अपूर्व पौराणिक की खास रिपोर्ट
https://mediawala.in/solar-eclipse-your-language-your-science-solar-eclipse/ - भाषा बहता नीर – भाग 2: भाषा का समाज विज्ञान — 10 May 2024
Dear Friends, The part two of my न्यूरोज्ञान lecture:
“भाषा बहता नीर”
“Language: a running stream”
touches on many social aspects of language like its purity, changes, standardisation, relations between Hindi, English, Urdu, Malwi dialect, the making and breaking of empires of languages, the extinction of languages, the glory of Sanskrit, language and thoughts, future of languages with respect to AI and many more.——————————
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भाषा का समाज विज्ञान
https://mediawala.in/apni-bhasha-apni-vigyan-language-flowing-water-part-2/ - “मोहे श्याम रंग दै दे” — 22 June 2024
When it comes to name a few organs in the body, one may enumerate heart, lung, kidney, liver, brain etc, but the option of SKIN hardly comes to mind.
Skin is a wonderful organ.
It defines us, protects us, creates our identity, keeps us cool and aids in expression of emotions.
Colours of skin come in myriad beautiful shades but human fallacy to think in terms of binaries only, perpetuates the two categories of Black and White only.
The science of skin colour, its evolution and to and from changes over millions of years are a compelling story.
And so is the more recent but sad and disgusting saga of Colorism and its dirty cousins Racism and Eugenics over last 2-3 centuries.
The 41th monthly column of mine अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान introduces the readers with the subject of त्वचा का रंग विज्ञान in company with a romantic title “मोहे श्याम रंग दै दे” — 22 June 2024
https://mediawala.in/apni-language-apni-science-mohe-shyam-rang-dai-de/ - मनुष्य की सबसे लम्बी यात्रा (The Longest Journey of Man) — 21 August 2024
Dear Friends, Spectacularly rapid advances in genetics have contributed massively to POPULATION GENOMICS.
Cellular samples from inner cheeks are being analysed for hundreds of thousands of people belonging to diverse ethnic groups across the globe.
Many maps are being created tracing the putative routes of migration of humans starting from East Africa and finally populating every nook and corner of the world.
The Longest Fascinating Journey of Humans started around 70,000 years ago and concluded in a way about 10,000 years back.
The story is full of drama and it engenders a few controversies.
My new 42th contribution to the monthly column on Science in Hindi is an abridged version of an article written by me about 15 years before. Some of the friends may remember it.
The gist, take away lessons and salient facts have not changed though.
अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान
“मानव की सबसे लंबी यात्रा“
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अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान: मनुष्य की सबसे लम्बी यात्रा (The Longest Journey of Man)
मानव की सबसे लंबी यात्रा पूर्ण हो चुकी है। इंसान धरती के कोने-कोने तक पहुंच चुका है। पर क्या यह यात्रा सचमुच में पूर्ण हो चुकी है? नहीं, यह यात्रा तब तक अधूरी रहेगी जब तक कि हम सब बंधुत्व के एहसास को नए ज्ञान के प्रकाश में,पूरी तरह अपने मन में आत्मसात न कर लें।
https://mediawala.in/our-own-linguistics-the-longest-journey-of-man/ - एक अद्भुत तत्व- लिथियम और बैटरी विज्ञान में क्रांति – 11 September 2024
It is disquieting for me to see unscientific usage of as basic a scientific term as ELEMENT or तत्व.
In physics and chemistry it means a matter which cannot be broken into any more constituent parts beyond its ATOM or परमाणु. मिथ्या विज्ञान की शब्दावली वाले तथाकथित पंच महाभूत या so called five base elements have no scientific basis.
One true chemical element LITHIUM is the subject matter of my 43ed monthly essay. It is of great topical and geopolitical importance.
It is rare that discoveries and inventions related to a single chemical element have resulted in Nobel Prize (2019) to three scientists.
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अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान: एक अद्भुत तत्व- लिथियम और बैटरी विज्ञान में क्रांति
सुप्रसिद्ध न्यूरो फिजिशियन डॉक्टर अपूर्व पौराणिक का कॉलम
https://mediawala.in/apni-language-apna-vigyan-an-amazing-element-lithium-and-revolution-in-battery-science/ - अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान: कलाओं का न्यूरोविज्ञान (Neuroscience of Arts) – 1 December 2024
Dear Friends, When i started this column of my essays on various aspects of Science, (January 2023) it was weekly to begin with.
The response had been encouraging. A few said “we wait for each Sunday”.
However I couldn’t keep pace. The frequency dropped to fortnightly and then monthly.
Now I am trying hard to not to slip below this level.
In this 44rd Science Essay, I give an overview of mesmerising borderlands on the interface of Arts+ Humanities and Sciences.
The Neuroscience is making deep inroads into the realms of arts.
The two worlds are no longer wide apart.
To paraphrase Rudyard Kipling,
“Science is science, Art is art, the twain shall eventually meet”
The intermingling is causing some unease among artists and Scholars + Philosophers in the domain of Humanities, to the extent of arousing “Neuron Envy”.
That need not be so.
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कला के विभिन्न रूपों की उत्पत्ति और रसास्वादन पर अनेक सिद्धांत है जिनकी व्यापकता सौंदर्य शास्त्र, रस सिद्धांत, दर्शन और आध्यात्मिकता तक पहुंचती है।
इस महत्वपूर्ण कॉलम में डॉ अपूर्व पौराणिक ने एक न्यूरोलॉजिस्ट के रूप में भौतिक या फिजिकल ब्रेन के स्तर पर व्याख्या कर मिर्गी और ‘हलातोल’, संगीत और मस्तिष्क और रंगों की दुनिया का मस्तिष्क से संबंध जैसे कई वैज्ञानिक विषयों को बहुत गहराई से प्रस्तुत किया है।
सुप्रसिद्ध न्यूरो फिजिशियन डॉक्टर अपूर्व पौराणिक का कॉलम
अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान: कलाओं का न्यूरोविज्ञान (Neuroscience of Arts)
https://mediawala.in/apanee-bhaasha-apana-vigyaan-neuroscience-of-arts/ - रॉक-स्टार साईन्स-जर्नलिस्ट – 20 December 2024
Dear Friends, Being a SCIENCE JOURNALIST is not glamorous.
Yet I consider it an important vocation. Science and scientific temperament is the bedrock of human civilisational progress.
It should make interesting stories to chronicle the events, personalities and perspectives in the ongoing saga of science.
But sadly only a miniscule band of journalists and scientists take the onus upon themselves.
With this background it was heartening to be among such a gathering at IISER Pune during second annual conference of Science Journalist Association of India on 4-5 December.
I returned optimistic with hope that more youth will make it a career choice.
I am a bit concerned though that the scene for Hindi and other Indian languages may take a longer time to improve.
I am sharing a comprehensive report of SJAI meeting to kindle a nascent desire in the minds of budding people on both side of the isle, that is the scientists as well as journalists.
This is my 44th essay in the series of monthly column at online news portal MEDIA WALA: अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान
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अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान: रॉक-स्टार साईन्स-जर्नलिस्ट
पत्रकारों में कौन रॉकस्टार होते हैं? सबसे अधिक शोहरत और पैसा मिलता है राष्ट्रीय स्तर के पत्रकारों को। सारे युवा पत्रकारों के रोल मॉडल और सपने ये ही स्टार होते हैं। इसके नीचे आते है राष्ट्रीय स्तर के फिल्म और स्पोर्टर्स पत्रकार।
स्थानीय स्तर पर सिटी रिपोर्टर की थोड़ी बहुत बखत होती है। विज्ञान पत्रकार? ये कौनसी बला होते है।नहीं जानता। बिरले ही कोई बनना चाहते है!
सुप्रसिद्ध न्यूरो फिजिशियन डॉ अपूर्व पौराणिक का कॉलम
https://mediawala.in/your-language-your-science-rock-star-science-journalist/ - भारतीय काल गणना का विज्ञान – 11 January 2025
On the occasion of Makar Sankranti (मकर संक्रांति), I take pride in the scientific superiority and secular credentials of Indian /भारतीय Calenders which we ourselves look down upon and remain oblivious of as Hindu, Communal, Rural and backward.
I conclude with a few words of caution for nationalists who under misguided zeal go overboard in eulozing anything ancient and fall prey to pseudoscience like astrology.
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अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान: भारतीय काल गणना का विज्ञान
सुप्रसिद्ध न्यूरो फिजिशियन डॉक्टर अपूर्व पौराणिक का कॉलम
https://mediawala.in/our-language-our-science-indian-science-of-time-calculation/ - प्राणियों में नींद: कब, क्यों, कैसे? – 20 February 2025
“Human beings spend one third of their life sleeping.
Why the natural evolution has selected it this way?
What is the physics, chemistry and biology behind the sleep?
What are the origins of sleep in animal lives?
The 47th essay of my monthly column
अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान
Is an attempt to briefy touch the science, philosophy, mythology and theology of this intriguing phenomena which nourishes our body, mind and soul and which carries us into a bliss.
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अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान: प्राणियों में नींद: कब, क्यों, कैसे?
सुप्रसिद्ध न्यूरो फिजिशियन डॉ अपूर्व पौराणिक का मासिक कॉलम
https://mediawala.in/your-language-your-science-sleep-in-animals-when-why-how/
- जीवन क्या है (What is Life)? – 28 April 2025
Dear Friends, I am glad to share my essay: WHAT IS LIFE? जीवन क्या है? as 48th contribution to my monthly SCIENCE COLUMN in Hindi — अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान at Online News Portal Media Wala.
I examine the question from many angles- biology, chemistry, physics, philosophy and spirituality.
Tantalising advances in science have brought us close to the threshold of creating “Artificial Life!” But should we go down that path?
It is exhilarating to read Upanishads and realise how wise were our sages who could comprehend that the so called boundary between “living” and “non-living“ may well be illusory.
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अपनी भाषा अपना विज्ञान: जीवन क्या है (What is Life)?
जीवन “सरल से जटिल” की यात्रा कहानी है
सुप्रसिद्ध न्यूरो फिजिशियन डॉ. अपूर्व पौराणिक का कॉलम
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In Momory of My Father Shri Krishna Vallabh Pauranik
मेरे पापा में राष्ट्रवाद व हिन्दुत्व की भावनाएं कूट कूट कर भरी थी – डॉ. अपूर्व पौराणिक
मेरे पापा: श्री कृष्णवल्लभ पौराणिक (1929-2016)
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