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Strong opinions, weakly held | “there are no eternal facts as there are no eternal truths” | tweet=me, rt's=treasure clues

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@amitmalviya Hello, trying to get in touch with you. Not urgent.

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@hardeep_gambhir Great list. Thank you for compiling and sharing. Adding one of my favourites.

Was surprised to not find this masterpiece in your list.

https://t.co/pFn6jkjntL

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@DevinaSengupta enjoyed reading your views on small talk today. “Small talk does not get its due” It’s indeed looked down upon, unfairly. But, like humour, it’s a sign of confidence and intellect. The British Navy first discovered the power of Banter.

https://t.co/3R9gVpIhM8

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@Jeevandeshmukh @S_Sivakumar @parvathimenon Glad to see again see #SundayScience in my feed after a long gap. I appreciate the effort you put into this.

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@KarlAlanFrank @ericmetaxas The wrynecks, flickers and sapsuckers are birds from the same family that show the evolutionary journey. Effectively counter the irreducible complexity argument.

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@KaranJohar4 @dishasatra It’s getting worse - now some of the others are also copying the fried dosa approach. That restaurant has ruined dosey in Bangalore.

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@SandeepMall @thesehrawat To be precise, we have peaked in population ‘growth rates’ - actual population will keep rising for another decade and more and then start falling like a rock.

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@KartikGadaATOM @Noahpinion @Steve_Sailer Just on the electricity situation - nobody had 24/7 power. Not even the elites. They used back-up generators, but carefully because of exorbitant fuel costs. India was dirt poor. (In 70s GDP/Capita was ~150 USD in India, and 10,000/- in the US. in 80s - 300$ in India, 20k in US)

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@hrnext The message is on point, but the translation is wrong. You have translated sau putrvati bhava. The correct translation is may you bathe in milk, have children and thrive.

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Hantavirus scaremongers don’t realise that outbreaks in democratic countries don’t become pandemics.

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@dtrips @TheEconomist I struggle to believe she is an expert at everything. Her takes are intelligent, thought provoking. However, and its exceptional any rare to have universal experts. Doubting only because facades can be erected behind the anonymity and scale of social media.

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

This is how we get tricorders.

Engineers just shrank a full lab grade spectrometer down to the size of a grain of sand. The result is a tiny spectrometer on a chip that could fit into smartphones, wearables, or medical devices.

Traditional spectrometers rely on bulky prisms, gratings, and long optical paths to split and measure light wavelengths. The new device flips that approach: it uses just 16 specially tuned silicon photodetectors on a 0.4 mm² chip. Photon trapping surface nanostructures extend silicon’s sensitivity deep into the near-
infrared (up to 1100 nm). A compact neural network then computationally reconstructs the full spectrum from the overlapping signals, delivering ~8 nm resolution with strong noise resistance.

The result is a high performance, real time hyperspectral sensor that works in electrically noisy environments and needs no moving parts or large optics.

Potential applications include portable disease diagnostics, real time food quality checks, pollution detection, environmental monitoring, and anywhere cheap, compact spectral analysis is needed.

AI and clever silicon engineering just turned one of the most important lab instruments into something you could lose on your fingertip.

Progress (and pocket-sized science) marches on. 🔬📱🚀

📸 Integrated Nanodevices & Nanosystems Research Lab at UC Davis

Source: https://t.co/M7jm8OyZLs

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The land of Bio-Engineering is in sight, explorations will begin in earnest.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

For decades, biology textbooks have enshrined a simple rule: DNA is made by copying a template. After one enzyme unzips a DNA double helix into separate strands, another called a polymerase builds a complementary sequence, base by base, for each strand. Presto: two copies of the original DNA.

But new research into how bacteria defend themselves from viruses now shows this synthesis rule isn’t absolute.

Now, a team describes a bacterial enzyme that synthesizes DNA without a nucleic acid template, using its own structure as a guide.

Learn more: https://t.co/TeUWvyO0OD @NewsfromScience

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@surveyguy2 Lovely to see! Thank you for sharing.

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@surveyguy2 Hello! Thought to share that I finally got the bike. Do you still have your bike?

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@surveyguy2 Thank you. Yes, they are stock. No modifications so far. It’s actually very quiet. Probably some new regulations on noise levels.

I remembered you are Triumph owner. Good to hear you would be riding again. Please share pictures when you go riding!

[OP Singh @opsinghips]

85% of India's police are constables. The clerk is invisible to everyone — except the citizen who needs him.

Sociologist Lenski called it Status Inconsistency: high power, low rank. The strain turns outward. Onto you.

A 2021 study found low power breeds paranoia — which breeds aggression. That hostile window clerk isn't a bad person. He's a predictable product of a broken system.

The Police Act of 1861 still governs how a constable meets a citizen in 2025.

When I became DGP Haryana, I didn't start with training. I started with dignity. Wrote to every jawan in Hindi: "You are the most important rank. The citizen at your gate is having a difficult day. Offer them a chair."

It worked. Because these are good people inside a broken design.

But goodwill has a shelf life.

Georgia after Rose Revolution recruited anew, raised salaries, tied promotion to conduct. Within 6 years — per Princeton's research — their police ranked 3rd most trusted institution in the country, after church and army.

The lesson isn't training. It's incentives.

Reward dignity. Recognise integrity. Link promotion to conduct.

Give them something to gain by being good. That's the reform. Everything else is noise.

Read my full article in @Dailyworld

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me having jail food cause I questioned FSSAI that why my paneer tastes like detergent.

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Today’s a good day to recall the time when people mad started writing off Google

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What is happening to Google now is pretty much textbook of what happened to Xerox PARC, but worse:

PARC invented all the foundations of personal computing, yet Apple and Microsoft commercialized it

Google invented many of the foundations of AI, yet everyone else is commercializing it

Even worse, everyone else is now competing with them, and now those competitors are coming for their biggest money maker: Search

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@FrontalForce Maj Gen Bakshi has been sporting his moustaches since academy days. Are you sure?