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Issue #006

February, 2026

1. The Broken Heart Syndrome: Can You Really Die of a Broken Heart?


  1. Templin, C., Ghadri, J. R., Diekmann, J., Napp, L. C., Bataiosu, D. R., Jaguszewski, M., … Lüscher, T. F. (2015). Clinical features and outcomes of takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy. New England Journal of Medicine, 373(10), 929–938. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1406761

  2. Wittstein, I. S., Thiemann, D. R., Lima, J. A. C., Baughman, K. L., Schulman, S. P., Gerstenblith, G., … Champion, H. C. (2005). Neurohumoral features of myocardial stunning due to sudden emotional stress. New England Journal of Medicine, 352(6), 539–548. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa043046

  3. Sharkey, S. W., Windenburg, D. C., Lesser, J. R., Maron, M. S., Hauser, R. G., Flaherty, J. D., … Maron, B. J. (2010). Natural history and expansive clinical profile of stress (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 55(4), 333–341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2009.08.057


2. Why Is Paris Called the City of Love?

  1. Elias, N. (1983). The court society. Pantheon Books.

  2. Boase, R. (1977). The origin and meaning of courtly love. Manchester University Press.

  3. DeJean, J. (2014). How Paris became Paris: The invention of the modern city. Bloomsbury.


3. Debunking the Myth of “Platonic Love”

  1. Plato. (1997). Complete works (J. M. Cooper & D. S. Hutchinson, Eds.). Hackett Publishing.

  2. Nussbaum, M. C. (2001). The fragility of goodness: Luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy (Rev. ed.). Cambridge University Press.

  3. Ferrari, G. R. F. (2007). Listening to the cicadas: A study of Plato’s Phaedrus. Cambridge University Press.


4. Dr. Helen Fisher: Measuring Love with Numbers?

  1. Fisher, H. (2004). Why we love: The nature and chemistry of romantic love. Henry Holt.

  2. Fisher, H., Aron, A., & Brown, L. L. (2006). Romantic love: A mammalian brain system for mate choice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 361(1476), 2173–2186. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2006.1938

  3. Aron, A., Fisher, H., Mashek, D. J., Strong, G., Li, H., & Brown, L. L. (2005). Reward, motivation, and emotion systems associated with early-stage intense romantic love. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94(1), 327–337. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00838.2004


5. What Is This Valentine’s Day After All?

  1. Oruch, J. (2012). Saint Valentine, Chaucer, and spring in February. Speculum, 56(3), 534–565.

  2. Schmidt, L. E. (1995). Consumer rites: The buying and selling of American holidays. Princeton University Press.

  3. Miller, D. (2017). A theory of shopping. Cornell University Press.


6. Why Is Finland So Happy?

  1. Helliwell, J. F., Layard, R., Sachs, J. D., & De Neve, J. E. (2024). World happiness report 2024. Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

  2. Allardt, E. (1993). Having, loving, being: An alternative to the Swedish model of welfare research. Social Indicators Research, 18(2), 111–131.

  3. Rothstein, B. (2011). The quality of government: Corruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective. University of Chicago Press.


7. The Barber of Seville

  1. Russell, B. (1903). The principles of mathematics. Cambridge University Press.

  2. Quine, W. V. O. (1963). Set theory and its logic. Harvard University Press.

  3. Gödel, K. (1986). Collected works: Volume I. Oxford University Press.


8. The Grandfather Paradox

  1. Lewis, D. (1976). The paradoxes of time travel. American Philosophical Quarterly, 13(2), 145–152.

  2. Nahin, P. J. (1999). Time machines: Time travel in physics, metaphysics, and science fiction. Springer.

  3. Novikov, I. D. (1998). The self-consistency principle. Physics-Uspekhi, 41(1), 99–104.


9. Will AI Cure Loneliness?

  1. Cacioppo, J. T., & Patrick, W. (2008). Loneliness: Human nature and the need for social connection. W. W. Norton.

  2. Bloom, P. (2016). Against empathy: The case for rational compassion. Ecco.

  3. Turkle, S. (2011). Alone together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other. Basic Books.


10. Love Is in the Wild?

  1. de Waal, F. (2009). The age of empathy: Nature’s lessons for a kinder society. Harmony Books.

  2. Carter, C. S., Ahnert, L., Grossmann, K. E., Hrdy, S. B., Lamb, M. E., Porges, S. W., & Sachser, N. (2005). Attachment and bonding: A new synthesis. MIT Press.

  3. Panksepp, J. (1998). Affective neuroscience. Oxford University Press.


11. The Silicon Superhero: Part II — Building Intelligence, One Atom at a Time

  1. Mack, C. A. (2011). Fundamental principles of optical lithography. Wiley.

  2. Waldrop, M. M. (2016). The chips are down for Moore’s law. Nature, 530(7589), 144–147. https://doi.org/10.1038/530144a

  3. Thompson, S. E., & Parthasarathy, S. (2006). Moore’s law: The future of Si microelectronics. Materials Today, 9(6), 20–25.


12. Jab Kutte Pe Sassa Aaya… — A City Shaped by Sacrifice, Strength, and Self-Belief

  1. Asher, C. B. (1992). Architecture of Mughal India. Cambridge University Press.

  2. Commissariat, M. S. (1988). History of Gujarat. Popular Prakashan.

  3. Spodek, H. (2011). Ahmedabad: Shock city of twentieth-century India. Indiana University Press.


13. Chandrayaan-III: Mending the Moon Dream, One Step at a Time

  1. Indian Space Research Organisation. (2023). Chandrayaan-3 mission overview. ISRO.

  2. Johnson, J. (2018). India’s space program: Progress and challenges. Springer.

  3. National Research Council. (2007). The scientific context for exploration of the Moon. National Academies Press.


14. The Heart Nebula

  1. Padmanabhan, T. (2000). Theoretical astrophysics, Volume II: Stars and stellar systems. Cambridge University Press.

  2. Krumholz, M. R. (2015). Star formation. Cambridge University Press.

  3. NASA. (2022). Star-forming regions and emission nebulae. NASA Astrophysics Division.

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