Traditionally, doctors use gestational age, the number of weeks from fertilization to birth, to determine whether a preemie should receive invasive care.
And it's refreshing to see a strong curious clever woman adding her voice to the scientific discourse in a field that has been traditionally dominated by men.
Traditionally, legal learning has been viewed in such institutions as the special preserve of lawyers, rather than a necessary part of the intellectual equipment of an educated person.
Indeed, stepwells have always been considered women's spaces-places to gather without inhibitions, away from men's domineering eyes (in India, after all, it is traditionally a woman's job to fetch and carry water).
Women have traditionally been forbidden from operating marionettes, or even making them, a craft that entails complex rituals, conducted under cover of night and involving kola nuts and roosters.
The second reason, they say, is lifestyle changes in the country, with people dedicating less time to breakfast when bread would traditionally be eaten with butter and jam.
Traditional Hindus ceremonially burn the body, and Zoroastrians, followers of one of the oldest monotheistic religions, traditionally place bodies atop a tower to expose them to the Sun and scavenging birds.
But it's fascinating. Why are people so obsessed with it? I know what it's like to be a woman who is essentially invisible to most people because of not being seen as traditionally beautiful or whatever.