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  I   liked the way the books are written. Let us take an example from a text book prescribed in MA (Applied Psychology). The book is Biopsychology by John PJ Pinel and Steven J Barnes. The book makes for an interesting reading. Contains many real life examples and makes a topic like Biopsychology fun and exciting. Lets dwell how he explains he term 'Coolidge effect' in the book.     The Coolidge effect is the fact that a copulating male who becomes incapable of continuing to copulate with one sex partner can often commence copulating with a new sex partner. Before your (referring to readers, who would be University students) imagination starts running wild, we should mention that the subjects in Lester and Gorzalka's experiment were hamsters, not university students. page 31.

 It was in the year  2019 that I injured my right knee. It started with me accepting a 100 day challenge run. One was required to run everyday for 100 days. The minimum distance to run was 3 km and so I thought, rather naively, that it would be easy. I ran for 100 days without much hassle. Even after the completion I continued running for another 25 days. This was when   I noticed some pain in my right knee. It was surprising as it was my  left knee which had always given me trouble.     After many failed attempts at running -I resigned to 'running-less' life and started looking around for alternates. Walking was one as I could do that for long distances. But the time needed for walking was not available due to job pressures. During this time, 2021, I shifted to another location where there was a swimming pool. I thought of taking up swimming. But the pool was closed for major repairs. I waited for the next year and joined the pool in 2022 somewhere in...

    THUNDERSTORM AND WEATHER RADAR             My first aircraft, the De-Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter (1940s design which first flew in late 1951), was the simplest aircraft with few basic instruments. I flew it extensively, single pilot mostly, all across the Western and Northern sector of the country. Weather posed the greatest challenge where we had only our eyes and luck to rely upon. So I was very excited, on my conversion to AN-32 (1993), to have weather radar which would tell me, through color codes, the areas to be avoided. My joy, though, remained short-lived as I frequently got tossed around in weather which my radar showed as benign.   During those early days when I was still at sea with weather radar, I cannot forget a sortie from Agra to Jamnagar. The initial picture painted on the weather radar displayed a continuous 10 mile thick green arch followed by black (no weather) beyond 10 miles. I pressed o...