CliQ Talk

Human beings have experienced a rapid change in their lifestyle after the ‘industrial revolution’. The industrial revolution paved changes to cultures, customs and traditions in societies all over existence. These changes pertained blocks of time periods through the existence of humankind which indulged the labeling and categorization of generations. In the present day you can find different names for the generations who lived in the world in those time periods. Some of them include; The Depression Era, World War II, Post-War Cohort, Boomers I or The Baby Boomers, Boomers II or Generation Jones, Generation X, Generation Y, Generation Z. People who belong to ‘Generation X’ are born from 1966 to 1976. In 2018 they are between the ages of 52 to 42. People born between 1977 and 1994 are considered ‘Generation Y’. This generation is also called “Echo Boomers” and “Millenniums”, they range between ages 41 to 24 in the present day. ‘Generation Z’ occupies birth years between 1995 and 2...

The value of a tissue paper Every idea should have a beginning somewhere. But that somewhere does not always have to be an expensive, high tech computer screen in an equally expensive, large meeting room. Would it be hard to believe if I said that some of the world’s most famous and admired creations started from a scribble on a piece of little tissue paper? As reported by The Telegraph, JK Rowling's idea for the widely adored novel series; Harry Potter, came to her while in a train station waiting for her train to London. In addition to this, Pixar's 1998 Biggest Movie: "A Bug's Life", 2001 "Monsters Inc.", 2003 "Finding Nemo" and 2008 "WALL-E", all started from the humble beginnings of a piece of tissue paper that was available during a lunch break. The Space Needle, an iconic landmark of Seattle, Washington DC, was primarily sketched on the remnants of a tissue paper while creator Edward E. Carlson was in the mid...

What does it mean not to fall? When thinking about it. You might imagine many aspects to the meaning of falling. Falling off something, falling while you’re walking, slipping and falling. But I’m not talking about any of these types of falling. So what is this ‘fall’? That has become such an issue. The fall I am referring to is the mental decline someone experiences due to difficulties and complications that they might have to face in life. The loss in self confidence and self esteem. So how do we achieve this self confidence and refrain from losing it? When we fail at something we worked hard for. It keeps us sleepless at night. We don’t have the appetite to eat. We can’t think about anything else other than the failure that has happened to us. There’s nothing wrong with dwelling your thoughts on your failures, as long as you do it the right way. Understanding your weaknesses and gaining from a failed experience to improve yourself. “Never a failure always a lesson” A famous ...

Have you ever felt like someone is watching over you? I don’t mean it in the philosophical sense, a being of higher power, like God. I mean more like a scrutinizing gaze. Like aliens. The idea of aliens still remain a pretty obnoxious subject even in this century. In this vast and unfathomable galaxy of stars and planets, it is hard to settle for the fact that we are all alone. If these so called aliens do have an existence. Why haven't they made and effort to contact us? Enrico Fermi, a Physicist from the 20th century, brought up the question. Where are these aliens? Are we really alone in this realm that’s filled with uncountable number of stars? There are discoveries of more than 100 planets, that are just like us. How many more could there be in our unawareness. Shouldn’t atleast another planet have some form of life? Are we really alone? Later this question was developed into the Fermi paradox, and in 1973 an astronaut named John A. Ball contributed to this idea t...

There’s a famous saying by  Eleanor Roosevelt that goes like this; “Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people “ It’s been said that the humankind was made in the image of God. We have the most advanced mind and most advanced capacity to think than all the animals in the animal kingdom. Everybody has a mind of their own. So what do we do with our mind? We have the indefinite capacity to think. We generate ideas and concepts from this process of thinking. A simple idea has the capacity to even change the whole world. Great developments of mankind were all initiated by this phenomenon known as an idea. Our process of thought, not only functions when we are conscious or awake but also when we are sleeping, we think in the form of dreams. Our hopes and aspirations. Our thoughts and reflections. Some of these things we keep locked away safely in our unconscious mind. And sometimes these thoughts and hopes come back to us, in our dreams...

On the first night of February 1959, 9 ski hikers mysteriously died in the mountains of Russia. As the group never returned, the group set up a camp on the slope, enjoyed dinner, and sleep was preparing for something but went devastatingly wrong. On February 26, the search team found a hiker's abandonment tent which was torn from inside. Footprints left by the group surrounding the area, some wearing socks, some followed by the edge of the nearby wood, some were wearing a single shoe, some barefoot. When the first two bodies were found, there were no shoes, only the underwear was wearing. As the scene produces a mark of death in hypothermia, but the medical examiner evidence makes no sense at all. Somebody had evidence of dull power trauma consistent with brutal raids. Others suffered three burns. One was vomiting and tongue was missing, and it turned out that a part of the clothing was a radioactive. The emerging theory includes the Russian version...