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বানর দিয়ে নারিকেল পাড়া

থাইল্যান্ড এর নারিকেল বাগানের মালিকেরা ছোট ছোট বানরকে প্রশিক্ষণ দেয় নারিকেল পাড়ার জন্য। মাত্র ৩ থেকে ৬ মাস এর মধ্যে এরা হয়ে উঠে এক্সপার্ট। যেহেতু বানর জন্মগত ভাবে গাছে উঠতে খুবই দক্ষ তাই এই অতিরিক্ত দক্ষতা এদেরকে করে তোলে অপ্রতিদন্ধী। কোনো মানুষ এদের সক্ষমতার আসে পাশেও আসতে পারে না। তার উপর এদের পিছনে খরচও খুবই সামান্য। কয়েকটা কলা আর রুটি ই যথেষ্ট। কোনো বেতন না, বোনাস না। কোনো ছুটি নাই, নাই কোনো হরতাল এর সমস্যা।

হাতি আর পাথর

ভারতে হাতি কে এক জায়গায় বেধে রাখার জন্য হাতি কে একটা অদ্ভূত ট্রেনিং দেওয়া হয়। হাতি যখন ছোট থাকে তখন হাতিকে একটা পাথরের সাথে দড়ি দিয়ে বেধে রাখা হয়। পাথর টা যথেষ্ট ভারী থাকে যাতে বাচ্চা হাতিটা ওটা কে টেনে নিয়ে যেতে না পারে। এই ভাবে হাতিটাকে ট্রেনিং দিতে থাকে এর মালিক।

এর পর হাতিটা যখন বড় হয়, এর মালিক একে বেঁধে রাখার জন্য একিই ভাবে একটা পাথর এর সাথে বেঁধে রাখে। কিন্তু এই সময় পাথরটা কিন্তু আর অত বড় থাকে না। বড় হাতিকে বাঁধার জন্য যত বড় পাথর দরকার, সেটা বহন করে চলাটা খুব সহজ অথবা অর্থনৈতিক ভাবে লাভজনক হবে না। যাই হোক, হাতির মালিক যখন এই বিশাল হাতিটাকে ছোট একটা পাথর দিয়ে বেঁধে রাখে, হাতিটা কিন্তু আর ওই জায়গা থেকে এক পা ও নড়ে না। ছোট কাল থেকে ট্রেনিং পাওয়া হাতি এতটাই অভ্যস্ত হয়ে উঠে যে, সে একবার চেষ্ঠা করেও দেখে না যে ওই সামান্য পাথরটাকে টেনে নিয়ে যাওয়া যায় কিনা।

বানর ও মাছের প্রতিযোগিতা

এক বার এক বানর আর মাছের মধ্যে প্রতিযোগিতা হলো যে কে সবার আগে গাছে উঠতে পারে। ফলাফল তো সবার জানা। কিন্তু তারপরও মাছ টা অনেক চেষ্টা করলো। লাফিয়ে লাফিয়ে সে উপরে উঠার চেষ্টা করলো কিন্তু বানর তার অনেক আগেই গাছের মগডালে উঠে বসে থাকলো। মাছ টা মন খারাপ করে গাছের গোড়াতেই পড়ে থাকলো।

এর পরের প্রতিযোগিতাটা হলো পানিতে সাতার কাটার। কে কার আগে সাঁতার কেটে নদী পার হতে পারে। এইবার এর ফলাফল গেল মাছের পক্ষে। এক মুহুর্তেই নদীর ওই পাড়ে পৌছে গেল সেই মাছ। আর বানর? নদীর পাড়েই বসে থাকলো।

সব কিছু থেকেই যে কিছুনা কিছু শিখতেই হবে এমন কোনো কথা তো নাই!

The 2016 Presidential Election: Republican Presidential Candidacy and Donald Trump

Presidential run for 2016 has started. Both Democrat and Republican parties have their candidates lined up for the party nomination. The Democrat's have 8 candidates and Republican's have 17. Last week was the first Republican candidates' debate on Fox News channel. 

With everyone's surprise, Donald Trump has come out to top as Republican Presidential candidate in almost all the poll results. If you don't know who this Donald Trump is. I would say just one word for him: Psycho. Even though some people may consider him as idiot or dumb for his nonsensical talks but he shouldn't be labeled with those nonlethal adjectives. If you read his bio, you would see that he is a real estate mogul having assets worth of billions of dollars. An idiot or a dumb person can't make billion dollars. He must be an intelligent person. 

Anyway, I am not a big fan of Republican party but when I see Donald Trump at the top of the polls, any respect that I have to Republican party, diminishes sharply. I can not think of any thing but seeing Donald Trump out of this race very soon but already he has surpassed the political life that such kind of a psychopath can have in a civilized political system

Please do not start comparing him to some of our politicians, though you would find similar characters in our political landscape but I don't want to go down that line because now I believe that Bangladesh is in the state of "political coma" where everyone can see everything and hear everything but lost the ability to respond intelligently. Anyway, keep you posted

Glaciers in Maine leaves us the story of unseen

We were in Maine in this week for vacationing. We camped at Blackwoods campground for a couple of days and then enjoyed the amazing natural beauty of Maine using the free shuttle service that they provide to reduce the cars on the road and make attractions accessible to all.

When we reached at the Jordan pond, at first, my thought was, why am I here? This is just another pond and surrounding it are the Bubble Mountain and Pemetic mountain. So what's so special about it? We walked down further the shore trail and read a post where it explains how this terrain was formed hundreds of millions of years ago.The glaciers that made the surface smoother, created lakes and brought rocks (these are called: glacier erratic) from miles distance. On one of informative board at the pond explained how the difference of the mineral, pattern and color tell the scientists the story of thousands of years of glacier movement and formation of the terrain. We weren't there at that time. The scientists were't there either. But the marks and traces left behind by the glaciers on the terrains tell us what exactly happened in thousands of years ago. It's like talking in a different language and grammar. 

I have seen some people who defy the existence of a creator and claims that as we can't see or conceptualize a creator, so there's no point of believing in a creator. The problem with that kind of logic is that they are so narrowed in the use of the word of seeing or understanding that they prove themselves as an ignorant in a larger scale. It's like a French is complaining that Shakespeare written in English is a verbose garbage as because that person can't read English. 

Don't blame that you can't see or conceptualize it because of your limited knowledge on languages to read the creation that has been laid out in front of you. If you don't know the language to read it, then learn the language first before proving yourself as ignorant

Counter clockwise rotations: coincidents?

The earth spins on it's axis counterclockwise

The earth revolves around the sun in counterclockwise

 

In fact all the planets in the solar system revolves in counterclockwise:

The Sun itself spins in counterclockwise:

In fact, most of the celestial bodies in the Solar system spins in counter clockwise (except Venus and Uranus)

And the entire Solar System revolves (and all other stars, planets, satellites etc. in our galaxy) revolves  counter clockwise:

The rotation of the pilgrimage around the Kaaba (Makkah, Saudi Arabia), which is thousands year old tradition that started during the time of Ibrahim (Abraham), is also counter clockwise. Hmm..coincident!!)

The Great Truths of Life

1. Respect all of who you work, live, and spend time with. Everyone deserves some level of respect, even though you may not feel for it

2. Don't exaggerate the events of suffering that you're going through right now. Eventually you will laugh on how you cried on spilled milk

3. Keep in mind, what you are enjoying now and most excited with, will give you sense of sorrow when you'll look back down the line of your life. The opposite is true as well

4. Help others without setting any expectations in return of your generosity. Life is not a business where you take calculated steps by looking into, for instance, Return on Investment (ROI). You are guaranteed to get the return, eventually, in a multiplied number but from some other unrelated and unexpected sources

5. Use time scale to reflect upon an event of life. What seems mountainous (too big to handle) on a shorter time scale could be proven as a little bump on the road of your journey

6. Never stop dreaming about your future. Everything else depends on some other factors, in one way or another, that you would have no control on your own

7. Try hard until you've exhausted all of your options, and remember, you'll never run out of options in this limited span of your life

8. Set incremental goals for your life and invest your every possible efforts towards reaching them one after another, so that you don't have to grief later on for not giving your best shot at it

9. Admit this: success and failure are not at your hand and are not a direct proportion to your efforts. There are N number of variables in this world that would define the success or failure for the effort you put forth but, regardless, your effort would take you there where not enough people have reached

10. Don't settle on the latest final discoveries on any aspect of life; there would be another final discovery very soon which would shake the older one, at least, if not nullifying that

Conundrum: who can see the rope?

Imagine a situation where a person is trapped deep into a well. For the trapped person, the area of visibility is through the opening of the well's small circle through which one can see the a narrow piece of blue sky. In that situation, the only thing that person can think of to escape is to climb up. That person would put his all his effort to climb up to get freed. There may be other options lying out there just next to the well which are beyond that person's grasp to understand or capture. There could very be a rope placed next to the well that has length to reach the trapped person. But for the trapped person, that won't give any peace or tranquility just because he or she isn't able to see that rope standing deep inside the well. But for the person who may be standing next to the well has the visibility to all the options that are possibly available including that rope. So he can just throw the rope from outside and get the person out of the well.

Now when you reverse the situation, the same person who was seeing all the options from outside, would be stuck with very limited visibility, if trapped deep in to the same well.  

Shallow thinkers of Science

I am a student of Science and a strong believer that Science has taken the human race to the level where no other creation could ever reach. However that doesn't give one the license to be untruthful or a hypocrite. By watching the Cosmos series of Neil Tyson on FOX channel, I came to this realization that Science is the only discipline in this modern age where one can brag proudly about the fact on how absolutely wrong they were until now.

Claiming the fact that at this very moment they have uncovered a new truth until they get to the next discovery of truth which would sever this "new truth" completely, which paves the way to disapprove this same apparently "absolute truth". The claim that Science continuously evolve and correct itself, is the weapon that's been used blatantly to justify the bragging. While proclaiming the new truth, scientists sometime put a clause that says "all evidence and scientific tests prove that...", which is no less then deceiving as that claim is actually the "all" that they could perceive and hold within the limitation of human cognitive capacity.

Not to discuss the horrendous act when some claims are taken as "new truth" as the "majority of the scientist believes that...." which I saw in natural phenomenon like Global Warming where Statistical data is bend to prove every hypothesis. That turns into a funny and hypocritical stance to justify their ignorance by holding their finite capacity of knowledge processing . I don't believe that all the scientists are like that but the majority of the scientists who are vocal about the majesty of science fall under that category.

Why don't those "shallow thinkers" stop using the word "believe" while referring to science in general and Astrophysics in particular, while in the same account bashing people who hold the faith on the unseen by applying the wisdom about this infinite universe (or multiverse?) and acknowledging the great insignificance of human species?