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Chicken Coop
Cognitive Dissonance: having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions & attitude change.

Dhruv Shah
Mar 26, 20212 min read
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Thanatophobia
Thanatophobia is commonly referred to as the fear of death. More specifically, it can be a fear of death or a fear of the dying process.

Dhruv Shah
Mar 25, 20211 min read
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A few steps for easy living
Model-dependent realism: where several models overlap in describing a particular subject, multiple, equally valid, realities exist.

Dhruv Shah
Mar 11, 20211 min read
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Hello,
I think I am addicted to crying. Usually, I cannot express what is smashing around inside. But I found pleasure when you left me. I...

Dhruv Shah
Jan 22, 20211 min read
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Cauterize
Pneumonia is an infection that inflames the alveoli in one or both lungs.

Dhruv Shah
Jan 21, 20211 min read
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Neuroemergence
To all the summer days I spent in the confocal microscopy room.

Dhruv Shah
Dec 16, 20201 min read
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_ Drunk and Musing
Do you know of the optical illusion where the sky touches the earth? The horizon doesn't exist. Or does it? Perhaps it’s where dead...

Dhruv Shah
Nov 28, 20201 min read
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Beautiful Human
In grade school, I was bullied because I was socially awkward. I stuttered and preferred to draw in silence during recess instead of play...

Dhruv Shah
Mar 31, 20206 min read
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How's India?
No response I have given has done justice to the question. How do I encapsulate half a year of experiences—months of adopting a radically...

Dhruv Shah
Nov 22, 201910 min read
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Kaabira
Kaabira: a reference to the 15th-century Indian mystic and poet Kaabir Das, who renounced his original home and family to instead learn abou

Dhruv Shah
Jul 13, 20194 min read
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Preconceptions
June 23, 2019: Fresh out of college, I dropped my American life to live in India for 9 months. I now work here as an English Teacher.

Dhruv Shah
Jul 6, 20192 min read
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