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I visited the iconic Bengaluru bookstore @bookworm_Kris this morning, days after its stock had been damaged by water seepage. I found its wonderful owner Krishna Gowda stoic and resolute. Good to see customers flocking in. I bought some books too.
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This is insane. One definition of Singularity is when tech arrives on TikTok before the Black Mirror episode about it
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A very very proud moment for all of us @cheqit_
🙏🙏🙏
PM @narendramodi encouraging foreigners to try out #UPI in India.
Team @cheqit_ is one of the first fintechs to open up the power of #UPI for rest of the world.
Onwards & Upwards 🚀
Speaking about ReScience(C & X) next week with ReproducibiliTea Bordeaux!
Next week we'll have a session on @ReScienceEds !
The session will be hosted by @snig26, a 3rd year Ph.D. student at the Mnemosyne team in @Neuro_Bordeaux.
More info: mailchi.mp/d83140dbf458/bord…
TIL😅
#TIL that that the Portuguese brought a fruit to India from one of their African territories, and unimaginatively called them Mozambique oranges, and India was like what is this colonialist Z, bro, and decided to call them mosambis.
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Indian women are lonely in the bedroom, lonely in the kitchen, lonely in the workplace.
Shrayana Bhattacharya (@BShrayana) joins me in episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the interior & exterior lives of these unseen millions: seenunseen.in/episodes/2022/…
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means." RIP Joan Didion, truly an icon
"When I talk about pictures in my mind I am talking, quite specifically, about images that shimmer around the edges." lithub.com/joan-didion-why-i…
Such curiosities
A seemingly mundane photograph of a sink full of soapy water draining itself can accidentally turn into an eye watching from the depths of the vortex [read more: buff.ly/UA4QUj]
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This is how two colliding galaxies interact and merge into a single elliptical galaxy over a period spanning two billion years of evolution, in a simulation made by the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at NCSA [read more: buff.ly/3vCi2eH]
I was fascinated to see the earliest writing tablets from about 5000 years ago. It is beyond imagination to conjure up a world without writing. This is how it started, effectively one of the greatest advances of mankind.
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The problem with the past is that it’s over.
How do we then study distant history?
Language is one way.
Peggy Mohan joins me in episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen to share her insights on how the evolution of our languages reveals how we got here: seenunseen.in/episodes/2021/…
