Friday, 12 February 2016

Kill Mosquitoes!

    Exterminate Mosquitoes from the World!

 

     Zika virus crisis, which is gripping Brazil and many of its neighboring countries, has shown the world the need for a concerted global effort against the most useless family of species in the world - the mosquitoes. Microcephaly is not a condition anyone would ever wish upon his worst enemy's kid. The crisis has also created a problem for the moral philosophy of Pope (whom I admire very much) and the Vatican. Contraception may become necessary in these cases, you don't want to have children when the child may be born to die early. Catholicism will need to give contraception (especially one that protects against STDs as well) the respect it deserves. The Vatican will also need to respect the individual female right to abort a fetus in such cases, but of course, within the confines of the law of the land (most countries don't allow abortion post certain weeks of pregnancy). 

      Getting back to the topic at hand, mosquito eradication is not impossible, unlike what some people may want us to think. All previous attempts at their eradication, have been through chemicals. Today we have the technology to eradicate them genetically, biologically. British scientists had, years ago, grown male mosquitoes in lab that would mate with females and reproduce only male children - that would have the same ability. Meaning, those male mosquitoes, born to the genetically engineered mosquitoes, will mate with females only to reproduce males. This cycle will continue and grow exponentially, till all the female mosquitoes have died out and no new ones are born. This will end their species. Genetic weapons like these, need to be created and spread, to eradicate all species of mosquitoes. Science is there, all that is needed is international political will and monetary resources (fund the WHO and Red Cross, people).

Monday, 8 February 2016

Twitter

Friday, 15 January 2016

Eric Cartman - Why the world loves him?





Why do people seem to enjoy the rants and ramblings of a semi-psychotic, racist, like Eric Cartman of Comedy Central’s South Park. The answer may lie in our subconscious. No, not that we are all racists underneath. It may be the fact that we enjoy a crazy person’s rants, from time to time, and enjoy watching him lose even more so. It appeals to the allure of the taboo. What Cartman does or chooses to do is not acceptable social behavior, and we enjoy him for that, because he chooses to flout social norms and conventions. It’s the Freudian id inside us all, that makes us want to do things our society bans. But we must not forget that we also know, every time, that what Cartman does is wrong, and he fails every time, rightly so. And we know that anyone who would do things that Cartman does, will and should fail. And in the end, we are all rewarded for our belief in the goodness of the people. We may enjoy shenanigans from time to time, but we always come to admire and respect the right thing in the end. And therein lies the magic of South Park’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who weave a great tale around their anti-hero, and a complete loony, Eric Cartman.

Monday, 11 January 2016

Google's Spam Policy

Google's automatons deleted my blog, claiming it to be spam. But the men and women behind those bots, understood the bot's error and reinstated my blog. Yay Google! First Amendment FTW.