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WOULD YOU RATHER BE A LEMMING? Saving time by speeding up your work or multitasking is always good. Because TIME IS MONEY and CAN NEVER BE SUBSTITUTED. But it is also a FACT, you need REST if you want to put the maximum time in the best useful manner. With modern communication equipment, travel to do business has become less and less. Unless your job is just meeting people located at far distances very frequently, for which you can always plan well in advance, you don’t HAVE to rush by the fastest means available at a much greater cost! Because whether you spend the time traveling or sitting in your office or wherever, you are always ENGAGED, even if you are sleeping! So why spending billions in developing and creating faster and faster passenger planes just to shave off a few hours and pay a huge amount for that? The money could be better spent by you, by airlines, by the government. The tendency to keeping up with the Joneses makes all us lemmings on their way to the s

I was reading an article in the current TIME magazine about California trying to control mosquito breeding by letting loose sterile male mosquitoes in millions. I was amused and was about to send a tweet as given below: “California is letting lose 20 million sterile mosquitoes to control their spread. Those are useless anyway and so is the money wasted on them. A handful of non-sterile can procreate millions more in due course. Or have they found out lady mosquitoes don't mate more than once or not at all with another?” Rohan, my grandson, was passing by and I called him out and showed him the news item in the TIME and my comment on it and asked for his comment. He said he was not sure I was right. He asked me further: Did you check the mating habits of mosquitoes? Scientists have done this, and they should know better. On checking, I find female mosquitoes mate once in their lifetime and after storing the sperm keep on laying eggs during the rest of their about one y