Category Archives: Viva!

It’s all in your genes: how DNA explains your sense of humour, sleep patterns, and phobias – Telegraph

So there you have it. You thought you were a free human being, an architect of your own will. But actually the way you live vast swathes of your life was decided by science long before you were born.

You can see this one of two ways; you’re now either a prisoner of your own genetics, doomed to live out an inevitable destiny because of your DNA.

Or you can decide that this means nothing is actually ever your fault. I know which conclusion I prefer.

via It’s all in your genes: how DNA explains your sense of humour, sleep patterns, and phobias – Telegraph.

Free distribution of medicinal plants at Chandravana – The Hindu

The college, which possesses more than 30,000 species of plants, was currently making available 12 sought-after varieties of medicinal plants, some rare, for free to the public. “There was a huge demand for the Hippali plant, whose leaves and fibrous roots are used for the treatment of respiratory allergies and indigestion,” Dr. Bhat said.

via Free distribution of medicinal plants at Chandravana – The Hindu.

What I Learned from a Child #devotion #poetry

GFETE – grin

penned in moon dust

And he said:“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”

~Matthew 18: 3 & 4

Today I walked where a child journeyed

I was whisked up into the breeze

colorful wings sprouted

I flew in fantasy

Today I rode a wooden horse

but you would never know

the journeys that we travelled

as knights from long ago

Today I laughed with a child

light and color flashed in the skies

we dug a tunnel to a new world

where giantshad blue eyes

Tomorrow I’ll wing up toward heaven

look down atyou with a smile

never letting go of the memories

love I learned from the heart of a child

smiles of a child

Jesus loved children and told us we needed to be…

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