Category: Health

• March 19, 2020

  Epidemiological models (SIR) in nCov and Other Epidemics

  Epidemic is an incident, in time, where typically a large proportion of a population gets ill. Corona-virus pandemic of 2019 is causing an epidemic. Originally detected somewhere in December 2019, we are still (March 20th 2020) in midst of the rising tide of infection cases. The causing virus is called specifically ‘Severe acute respiratory syndrome…
• March 22, 2018

  Gleam of Green Tea

  It’s one of my first cups of the product right there. It’s an interesting journey to produce a cup of hot green tea. Yesterday I bought the ingredients: a tea strainer and some green tea (in a pouch). As with everything experimental, it’s a fascinating thing to enter a new world. There’s questions, you see, and…
• July 11, 2017

  Forest bathing

  Forest bathing is the practice of taking a short, leisurely visit to a forest for health benefits. I was indeed surprised to find an article of this phenomenon, “forest bathing”. For example in Japan, the local authorities (according to Wikipedia) have suggested as early as 1982, that walking in the forest is a way to…