Deep Adhya, PhD

Grace Are you done washing up?  Jim Almost! Just one more dish left.  Grace You could have done the dishes later. We are in the middle of a movie.  Jim There! I am done.  Grace Well?! Come on now!  Jim My hands feel rough and uneven like the surface of the moon, and dry. Let me just apply some cream, and I will be right there.  Grace You know, I think you are showing symptoms of OCD.  Jim This is no OCD. This is necessary. I have dry skin. If I don’t keep it moisturized it will soon start cracking, then bleeding, then God knows what.  Grace Then it is your dry skin that is giving you OCD? Case in point, you don’t get dry skin if you do not wash your dishes. In fact, you will get dry skin if you do. How about that?  Jim Then who will do my dishes? I will have to do my dishes anyway, if not now, two hours later, or tomorrow. By then the crumbs will have proudly ...

Jim  I can’t believe I am stuck in this project. I am giving it all the intellectual contribution any human can possibly give, yet I feel like I am the only one who cares about fixing the sinking ship. This is awful. While I tug at the various strings to tune up my project my boss seems to be only interested in cutting them without taking a glimpse at the problem. Can matters get any worse?  Grace But, you are not as unlucky as I am. My boss is only interested in improving her relations with people. By people I don’t mean just colleagues, but the whole lot of people including cab drivers. You should look at her display of pity for the cab drivers. Any human being in his position would do anything to appease and get the hell out.  Jim Don’t be so sure! My boss doesn’t go to the extent of praising cab drivers, but that may be because you don’t see too many females in that profession. My boss is a spider at the middle of his web, and we, his subjects are ...

Grace I have recently noticed that there are more lesbian couples than gay couples. I have always thought it should be the other way round.  Jim Well, and why do you think that is so?   Grace Maybe women have the womb, so it is easier for them to have babies if they want even if they have come out of the closet. But it is probably difficult for men to come out in the open with their sexuality, as they are more likely to be worried about finding a woman, to have kids.  Jim That’s a point, but men can get surrogate mothers if they want.  Grace Yes, but it is not the same. It is more difficult for a woman to give her womb as a surrogate and not complicate matters.  Jim A little trivia. We know that testosterone is the primary male hormone and estrogen the primary female hormone which are known to be involved in the sexual dimorphism of the human brain, right? Funny thing is research shows that the hormone responsibl...