Akash P

Traveller, Explorer, Seeker n Cat lover , also IAS, currently in SIPCOT as Executive Director

[Akash P @akshp91]

@sumanthraman 8ag

[Akash P @akshp91]

@sanjeevsanyal pls take it up!

[Kasi காசி @akaasi]

My next patent application is in draft... 💪😊

But the application processing is very slow. Application filed nearly 3 years ago has not been taken up for examination yet! 🥴
@TRBRajaa avl, Chennai patent office needs to be strengthened. Please take it up with @PiyushGoyal avl.

[Akash P @akshp91]

@ShashiTharoor Seems now you prefer action over acting and height over depth!!! Hmm interesting!! 🤔

[Akash P @akshp91]

@grok
Can you pls list the top 10 Indian financial influencer handles, giving stocks investment advice, in the decreasing order of their follower counts? Thanks.

[Akash P @akshp91]

@HereWorks Fake news.

[Akash P @akshp91]

#JioCinema such useless gadhas 🫏 @reliancegroup

[Motive L. Jackson @Jay_Motive]

A newly released bodycam video from the Seattle Police Department (SPD) shows what appears to be two officers conversing and making light of an incident where an officer fatally struck Jaahnavi Kandula a pedestrian in January.

#JusticeForJaahnaviKandula

[Akash P @akshp91]

@gemsofcourts Don't cause hardships to the lordship!!

[Akash P @akshp91]

Had an opportunity to visit GIFT city yesterday and it was unique cuz:

1. Underground utility tunnel for utilities obviating future digging of roads.
2. Centralised piped waste suction and processing centre.
3. Centralised water based AC mechanism saving on power costs.

👌

[The Index of Gujarat @IndexofGujarat]

GIFT City

1) GIFT City will become a Global Hub of Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation services exports
🔹FM Nirmala Sitharaman announced for a legal framework

2) HDFC group invests big in GIFT City with 3 subsidiaries
🔹HDFC Internation Life and Re → Insurence
🔹HDFC AMC International → Mutual Funds & Asset Management
🔹HDFC Bank → International Banking

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

I am a Hepatologist.

Arguably, I care for the sickest group of patients in medical practice – end stage liver disease.

I see death almost every day in my ICU.

Some are natural deaths, leading to multiple organ failure triggered by a failing liver.

Some are decided. The family decided to pull the plug. They decide it was time to let go.

And every time, I see the heart rate drop, the blood pressure fall and the electrocardiogram go flat.

And I wonder. What goes on inside a dying brain?
Was it a small black hole, that gets bigger and bigger and then engulfs the field in darkness as the heart shuts down taking the brain away with it?

Or was it just all light at the end of the tunnel and then darkness, once the destination had reached?

A group of doctors did something strange. Something unimaginable.

And it led to them witnessing something melancholic, but beautiful.

They went inside an ICU. Saw that four patients were unconscious.

They were not clinically dead, yet. And not brain-dead. But were comatose.
They were kept alive by a machine that pumped oxygen into their lungs.
Three had brain injury due to cardiac arrest. One had haemorrhaged into the brain.

All were unresponsive for a very long time and sadly, the family decided to pull the plug on them.
To let them go away, peacefully.

But before they did that, the loving family did something bittersweet. They signed a document which was made by the group of doctors, allowing them to study their beloveds’ dying brain.

The group was led by Dr Jimo Borjigin of the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor at Michigan.

The doctors fitted machines to the heart and brain of the dying patients and then withdrew their life support by removing the breathing tube.

Immediately after the tube was removed, the brain activity did not show anything different.
But as the brain got closer to death, about 300 seconds before death, a power surge. And it occurred in the regions of the brain which was associated with conscious experience. Like the dying was suddenly yearning to live.

And make no mistake, these were not “some bursts” of electrical activity that happens when the brain cells withered away without oxygen. This was a special kind of activity.

These power surges increased connectivity in a region in the brain called posterior cortical “hot zone” – an area crucial for conscious perception – when it came to just before dying, the brain cells were having a cross-talk, not dying away into oblivion.

They were passing final messages to each other within the regions of the brain, while the physical body lay, limp and motionless.

And the doctors were heartbroken – because the final electrical pattern of surge that the dying brain was showing was the similar to those seen in dreaming humans.

All the patients in the study died.
But before they died, they taught us something.
That even in death, our minds are resilient.
That we clutch at only everything that is good.

What were they dreaming of?
A husband, about his loving wife?
A mother, her children?
Children, their parents?
Or maybe a scene from a movie that changed you?
Or a song under a starry sky?
Or a pet who loved you unconditionally?
We will never know.

But know this, even in death, the mind conquers – with dreams and love, not nightmares and hate.

Remember, nothing perfect lasts forever, except in our memories.

Make good memories while living, so that we can re-live them in death.

Go hug you family, take your children for an ice cream. Walk your dog into the sunset.

Sources:
➡️"Surprising brain activity moments before death" by Dr. F Perry Wilson @fperrywilson via https://t.co/g2NmWlMrAs

➡️Research Article: Surge of neurophysiological coupling and connectivity of gamma oscillations in the dying human brain from @PNASNews https://t.co/YqvZIlDaxN

[Akash P @akshp91]

We are on the right track when it comes to representation of women in higher civil services. Good progress last few years but can’t rest until we exceed 50%.
It’s not alone for justice sake but also to make administration more representative, humane and kind. #UPSC #IAS #women

[The Indian Index @IndianIndex]

Women who qualified UPSC civil services exam (In %):👩‍🎓

- 1980s and 90s: 10-20%
- 2006: 20%
- 2018: 24%
- 2020: 29%
- 2023: 34%

(UPSC; News Reports)

[Paul Couvert @itsPaulAi]

ChatGPT's new competitor Claude 2 has many advantages.

Here's a table comparing the two:

[Leo @4eo]

Hi,

IIT graduate Akhil

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[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

I dont usually debunk what health-illiterate spiritual gurus mutter about medicine and nutrition, but this video was shared with me for some fact checking and also because it has got millions of views and 60K likes.

And it is utter nonsense.

The video features Jaggi Vasudev, self proclaimed spiritual leader also known as Sadhguru - who was featured in The Joe Rogan podcast (not that it makes him any credible, but it can project his nonsensical takes on healthcare onto millions worldwide)

There are many utterly and absolutely inacurrate claims made in this video.

Claim: There is a poisonous chemical called citatine in brinjal.
Fact: There is no such thing as citatine. Brinjal (or egg plant), along with potatoes and tomatoes belong to the family of nightshade and genus Solanum. Solanum group contain Solanine in the unripe fruit/vegetables. These are natural defences present in these plants against animals. When stored under ambient temperature and when ripe enough, the chances of solanine poisoning is almost zero. Reports of poisoning and fatality were because people consumed bitter green tomatoes or green skin potatoes. Peeling skin of potatoes almost nullifies the risk of solanine poisoning.
See more here: https://t.co/R8UoBPf8Eh

Claim: Citatine (actually he must have meant solanine) damages the hypothalamus region of brain.
Fact: There is no evidence to show that solanine affects the hypothalamus region of brain. The most common site of toxicity from solanine is on the gastrointestinal tract - burning sensations in the mouth, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea and nothing on the hypothalamus in the brain.

Claim: Hypothalamus is the important part of the brain which helps in decision making. Poison in brinjal attacks this part and makes you dull.
Fact: The prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus are the most critical parts of the human brain for decision making and not hypothalamus.
https://t.co/AABRt4e17H
The hypothalamus helps manage your body temperature, hunger and thirst, mood, sex drive, blood pressure and sleep - and has nothing to do with decision making.
https://t.co/gP1l7iy3FQ

Claim: Eating a whole garlic will kill you.
Fact: No it wont. It will drive away vampires and non-vampires because literally no one can stand that breath. And probably give you a heartburn you'll never forget. Also nobody is going to eat a whole garlic unless it is reality TV where you are getting paid for it.

Claim: If you eat one egg plant (brinjal) a day for a year, you will become a far duller person.
Fact: If you keep listening to people like Jaggi and watch Jaggi videos and enjoy seeing Jaggi dancing during Navaratri, it is more like that you are already a very dull person without any critical thinking skills.

Last point:
The classification of foods into Satvic (pure, light), Rajasic (spicy, stimulating) and Tamasic (heavy, dull - such as Brinjal) is according to the primitive untested observations-based religious mumbo-jumbo from ancient Ayurvedic scriptures which also feature the annoyingly hocus-pocus "hot and cold" foods classification - it is utter nonsense.

Never for a second believe the nutritional pseudoscience of Ayurveda. Many people suffer from Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) because they following this nonsense classification.
https://t.co/dVEBFz0NpU

Foods are actually classified by origin, chemical composition and predominant function.

Sadhguru Jaggi is not a doctor. He is a conman who speaks good, fluent English, and lies, rather confidently.

[Akash P @akshp91]

@WazhmaAyoubi @IPL @rajasthanroyals There's nothing hateful about it. It's called trolling. Indians aren't too touchy feely or thin skinned. Grow up madam pls. Learn to take criticism, troll and sarcasm.

[முகில் @mukil1123]

திருநெல்வேலி, தென்காசி சுற்றி இருக்குற நிறைய கிராமங்கள்ல உள்ள பொண்ணுங்க இன்னைக்கு ஓரளவுக்காவது நல்ல நிலைமையில இருக்குறதுக்கு காரணம் இந்த sarah Tucker college தான்...❤️❤️

[Akash P @akshp91]

@BangalorePolice

[Sangita @Sanginamby]

Auto drivers can get so intimidating. This guy in #Bangalore is threatening a Rapido driver from North East, after smashing his phone to smithereens. He’s even calling him a foreigner! Gross.

[District Collector Tenkasi @CollrTenkasi]

தென்காசி மாவட்டத்தில் இன்று நடைபெற்ற விழாவில், மாண்புமிகு தமிழ்நாடு முதலமைச்சர் திரு. @mkstalin அவர்கள் ரூ. 22.20 கோடி செலவில் 57 முடிவுற்ற திட்டப்பணிகளை திறந்து வைத்து ரூ.34.14 கோடி மதிப்பிலான 23 புதிய திட்ட பணிகளுக்கு அடிக்கல் நாடினார்.

#tenkasi #schemes #TNGovt #MKStalin