When Being Brilliant at Studies Isn't Enough What Young Sheldon teaches us about the difference between knowing the answer and knowing how to live I have been watching Young Sheldon on Netflix and, as I get closer to the end of the series, I have started noticing something that goes beyond the comedy and the story of a child genius. Sheldon Cooper is extraordinarily intelligent. His mathematical ability is exceptional. His memory is remarkable. He can understand concepts that most people around him cannot. He reads, calculates and reasons at a level far beyond his age. And yet, watching him navigate ordinary life, I sometimes find myself thinking: "How can someone so intelligent be so clueless?" Then there is his sister Missy. Academically, she is almost the complete opposite of Sheldon. She has little interest in books, performs poorly in school and doesn't possess her brother's extraordinary intellectual abilities. But when it comes to ordinary human...
When Wildlife Comes to the Farm, Perhaps We Should Ask Who Came First The nilgai problem is real. But before blaming the animal, perhaps we should look in the mirror. A recent report from Una in Himachal Pradesh describes a problem that farmers have been struggling with for years: the growing presence of blue bulls, or nilgai, in agricultural fields. For a farmer, there is nothing theoretical about this problem. A crop is not merely a crop. It represents months of labour, money borrowed or invested, expectations about the harvest and, ultimately, a family's livelihood. When herds of nilgai enter fields and eat or trample crops, the economic loss can be devastating. Studies and reports from different parts of India have documented significant crop damage caused by nilgai, and farmers in several states have demanded government intervention. So yes, the farmer's concern is legitimate. But while reading such a story, another question inevitably comes to mind: Where are ...