“They told me it’s out there: The Pacific Vortex. Paradise”; The “Plastic bag” anticipates his destiny through Werner Herzog’s voice. “No one needs me here anymore, Not even my Maker”; the “Plastic bag” laments while observing the sunset on the beach. “He” is about to dive into the deep ocean heading for “paradise”: the gigantic plastic garbage dump that sits deep Pacific Ocean Vortex. Ramin Bahrani opens his “Plastic bag” (2010), an 18 minutes long film with the above narration. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival and later screened at the New York Film Festival. Ramin is an acclaimed…

Frank is not a person; it was a coral. Dr. Tollio Rossi, an Australian marine biologist, characterizes this coral as Frank. He presents his science project as a brief animation video to raise awareness about the impact of mass bleaching on this world heritage coral. Find out how he attracts our attention by giving life to this inanimate coral. This is a great living example of the power of story telling. According to his post that appeared in his science website, Frank has won two global awards: the Best Educational Video at the Film4Climate Global Video Competition and was a…

Image by skeeze from Pixabay Updated July 25, 2021 I wrote the original post under the above title in February 2020 just before the COVID-19 pandemic sets in. It referred to millions of deaths of animals due to massive wildfires in Australia. Then, I added an update in June 2020; at that time it was us – COVID19 gobbled 4,00,000 humans. now, the world has aged one year from June 2020; the virus has claimed 10 times than the June 2020 total: Exactly 4,172,142 humans: 4.1 million!. Can we comprehend that number? We simply cannot. We have become numbed. Paul Slovic…

“Adenosine Tri Phosphate (ATP) works like a coin in a slot machine. It powers on to turn as a machine that promptly shuts down again afterward. In the case of ATP, the machine is typically a protein. ATP powers a change from one stable state to another, like flipping a switch from up to down. To flip it back again requires another ATP, just as you have to insert another coin in the slot machine to have a second go”. The above paragraph describes how the ATP molecule assists living cells to produce energy. Nick Lane, a renowned evolutionary biochemist…