Vandana Gupta

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music...

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

Bots have only made companies more aloof and less accountable.

Our long and drawn out court proceedings make the environment favorable to these companies.

Consumers, esp like me, with no following, have to just deal with this new age reality.

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

@ShashiTharoor @Ram_Guha Led it to ridicule.

And eventually to oblivion.

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

@Zaffar_Nama From a Kashmiri Girls point of view.

[Soumitra 🌻 সৌমিত্র சௌமித்ரா سومترہ @netshrink]

I got into medical school on "merit" - 60th on general category list in Mumbai 1982.
Have a Gold Medal at MD exams Mumbai University.

Let me tell you something:
Merit is a myth.
It's all about privilege, social capital, access to resources & hence opportunity.

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

@TheCinesthetic Legally blonde
Devil wears Prada
miss congeniality

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

@ATRightMovies Mostly all Sanjay Leela Bhansali movies. Saawariya, Ramleela Padmavati..

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

So, the luggage would weigh a little less in Pondy than in Europe or north India!

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

3. Gravity is not 9.8 ms^2. That's just the global average. On this globe it is stronger in the red areas and weaker in the blue areas

[Dhivya Marunthiah @DhivCM]

She is here, Cauvery ❤️

[NASA @NASA]

Let the games begin!

Athletes from across the world are gathering today to kick off the 2024 #Olympics – pushing boundaries and inspiring generations. If you were an Olympic athlete, which sport would you play?

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

@leviathan164217 @kaaldeshpatra @akhilpachori Lol.

There is beauty in simplicity

But to achieve it there is a lot of complexity hidden. Which this government doesn't seem to understand.

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

@Tu_baeJ Firecrackers

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

Poor cat.

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

@_La_Keka @WCHerp My friend, who isn't on twitter, wants to get in touch with you. His paper is accepted.. and needs to register.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Baby elephant making room for its favourite toy

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

🛤️🚂 Chinese scientists invented a trackless tram.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

In the Amazon rainforest the peacock katydid is a leaf-mimic katydid, with a startle display on its hind wings

Watch that here

📹Frank Deschandol

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1995, a group of scientists conducted a study on the effects of various drugs on spiders, specifically focusing on the way they weave their webs. This research aimed to explore the impact of psychoactive substances on the behavior and motor skills of these arachnids

The initial motivation for the study was a request from a zoologist colleague to shift the time when garden spiders build their webs from between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., which was apparently a source of annoyance. The scientists tested spiders with a range of psychoactive drugs, including amphetamine, mescaline, strychnine, LSD, and caffeine, and found that the drugs affect the size and shape of the web rather than the time it is built.

At small doses of caffeine (10 µg/spider), the webs were smaller; the radii were uneven, but the regularity of the circles was unaffected. At higher doses (100 µg/spider), the webs were even smaller, and the design became irregular and fragmented. The scientists also discovered that caffeine has a significant effect on spiders, which is reflected in the construction of their webs.

The study revealed that nearly every drug yielded the same effects, in slightly varying degrees of non-functionality. Spiders dosed with sleeping drugs became "very drowsy," skipped spinning the longest, most challenging radial threads (those on the outer corners of the frame), and left huge gaps in their webs; Benzedrine caused the spiders to spin a spiral "that zig-zagged like an unsteady walker" and induced the inability to locate precise spots within the web; marijuana made the insects omit altogether the inner part of the web; scopolamine, which has hallucinogenic effects in humans, destroyed the spiders' sense of direction altogether.

Overall, this research provided valuable insights into the impact of drugs on spiders and their web-building behavior. While the exact analogy between the effects of drugs on spiders and humans is still uncertain, the study showcased the importance of understanding the effects of psychoactive substances on various organisms.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

"Right now millionaires alone are on track to burn 72% of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C. We are devoting huge amounts of energy to enable the excess consumption of the ruling class. In the midst of a climate emergency, this is totally irrational.” https://t.co/jIYoMJbC3R

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

It's never about how many lanes!

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

Gurgaon is packed. It's not about how many lanes right.

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

@SBICard_Connect Thank you for your response! 🙏🏽

[Vandana Gupta @VandiJi]

So frustrating to own a SBICredicard; and even more frustrating to cancel it. @SBICard_Connect

Never want to own on. Lesson learnt.