“It was his dream to see one of his trainees play in the NBA someday.” Punjab, home to an abundance of six feet and above players, is “the nursery for Indian basketball”, in part due to Dr Sankaran Subramanian and his efforts as a coach for the Ludhiana Basketball Academy. Subramanian could figure out his players’ every weakness and strength and toiled into the wee hours of the night watching videos and formulating strategies, fuelled by the dream to see India’s basketball scene be recognised internationally. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
