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Will you vote "No" in this poll?

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@krishashok @chiragbarjatya Recursive response jai!

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@NGKabra @ShriramKMurthi Will not the prompt become the new programming language?

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@_SanjayGupta Rekha, don't know, sridevi, smita patil

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@sidin So why do you hate paneer?

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We have a Tom Holland, Tom Hollander. We need a Tom Hollandest.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Johnny Depp was reportedly so committed to Captain Jack Sparrow during the filming of At World’s End (2007) that he was rarely out of character on set. According to Tom Hollander, when he let out a curse, the correction didn’t come from Depp—it came from Sparrow himself.. “You cannot curse in a Disney film, mate.”

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@greatbong Cricket, Movies but above all, musings about getting older and nostalgia.

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@avataram Post IITB, got into the CS PhD program at Columbia University. Decided to go to IIM-C instead. No regrets, but still wonder how life would have turned out if I had taken the Columbia offer.

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@anujdhar @greatbong had always said that The Telegraph takes an 'anti-establishment' stance (Central govt) because the establishment (state govt) was supporting them. This is not surprising, if we consider that. Will be interesting to see if and how their approach changes!

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@chennaikaran VPs are equivalent to managers in most financial services firms.

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@chennaikaran He must have eliminated all other explanations and got to this one (however ridiculous it may sound) :-D

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@avataram Like Paul Erdos and Bill Murray :-D !

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@avataram Congrats to them! US?

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@soundmeister @DrChrisCombs For a PhD, it is very complex!

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@MissAlly_01 Yes. And also look at all the characters in the periphery of the frame to see if they are doing anything 'unnatural' with respect to that particular scene.

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@vishalmisra Post-docs are ostriches in a way!

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@ainvvy Also, why are some of the South East Asia parts also highlighted?

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@TrungTPhan @grok what is this tool?

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@chennaikaran Wow!😀 What if now there were multiple of these vehicles connected to each other - can easily transport 6 - 7x of what he was planning!

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@avataram IIT goons smarter than regular goons!😄

[GP Q @argosaki]

BREASTMILK
She thought she was studying milk.
What she uncovered was a conversation.

In 2008, evolutionary anthropologist Katie Hinde was working in a primate research lab in California, analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers. She had hundreds of samples and thousands of data points. Everything looked ordinary—until one pattern refused to go away.

Mothers raising sons produced milk richer in fat and protein.
Mothers raising daughters produced a larger volume with different nutrient balances.

It was consistent. Repeatable. And deeply uncomfortable for the scientific consensus.

Colleagues suggested error. Noise. Statistical coincidence.
But Katie trusted the data.

And the data pointed to a radical idea.

Milk is not just nutrition.
It is information.

For decades, biology treated breast milk as simple fuel. Calories in. Growth out. But if milk were only calories, why would it change depending on the sex of the baby?

Katie kept digging.

Across more than 250 mothers and over 700 sampling events, the story grew more complex. Younger, first-time mothers produced milk with fewer calories but significantly higher levels of cortisol—the stress hormone.

The babies who drank it grew faster.
They were also more alert, more cautious, more anxious.

Milk wasn’t just building bodies.
It was shaping behavior.

Then came the discovery that changed everything.

When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system. If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it.

Within hours, the milk changes.

White blood cells surge.
Macrophages multiply.
Targeted antibodies appear.

When the baby recovers, the milk returns to baseline.

This was not coincidence.
It was call and response.

A biological dialogue refined over millions of years. Invisible—until someone thought to listen.

As Katie reviewed existing research, she noticed something unsettling. There were twice as many scientific studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition.

The first food every human consumes.
The substance that shaped our species.
Largely ignored.

So she did something bold.

She launched a blog with a deliberately provocative name: Mammals Suck Milk.
It exploded. Over a million readers in its first year. Parents. Doctors. Scientists. People asking questions research had skipped.

The discoveries kept coming.

Milk changes by time of day.
Foremilk differs from hindmilk.
Human milk contains over 200 oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria.
Every mother’s milk is biologically unique.

In 2017, Katie brought this work to a TED stage. In 2020, it reached a global audience through Netflix’s Babies. Today, at Arizona State University’s Comparative Lactation Lab, she continues reshaping how medicine understands infant development, neonatal care, formula design, and public health.

The implications are staggering.

Milk has been evolving for more than 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth. What we once dismissed as simple nourishment is one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced.

Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She revealed that nourishment is intelligence.
A living, responsive system shaping who we become before we ever speak.

All because one scientist refused to accept that half the story was “measurement error.”

Sometimes the biggest revolutions begin by listening to what everyone else ignores.