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BEING ALIVE. How we take it for granted.

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I am delighted to share that my novel ‘Megh’ is out in the world!
You can order your copy from Amazon - https://t.co/UlIeeHJw2j.
I hope you enjoy reading it.

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@aparanjape @IISERPune For a moment I thought he was Mark Twain.

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@c_aashish We can't build anything beautiful, but let us spoil all that which is already beautiful 🤦‍♀️

The govt really needs a department for design.
Make India Beautiful Again.

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@Fintech03 Capitalists have been exploiting natural resources and replacing humans by machines for past couple of centuries. That too was called progress.
Now that they are bypassing savants everyone is feeling threatened.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

25 Fields Medalists published an open letter warning against treating math purely as an AI benchmark.

"Solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight."

A powerful reflection from mathandai[dot]org, signed by Fields Medalists like Terence Tao, Manjul Bhargava, and Peter Scholze.

As AI pushes into formal reasoning, we have to ask: are we building new intellectual ground / just generating brute-force solutions that no human can learn from?

[Badger @Bertrom]

My students were always a bit gobsmacked when I showed them this in the Film Industry and Synergy classes.

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@sanjeevsanyal That's not a creative idea, it is simply easy. Just sell every inch there is—0% innovative, 100% distasteful.

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@aparanjape In spite of surplus rains, we are not getting enough PMC water supply and have to depend on tankers.

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A beautiful play of contrast and flow.

A man in a traditional white boubou against the Sahelian architecture of a mosque, Mali, 1968, by Brian Vikander.

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@PMCPune कुणी पण घरी भेट दिलेली नाही.

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@aparanjape Koyna dam

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Pune rains is a mood.

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@coolfunnytshirt These people are barbaric. These sick people cannot be students.

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@atul_kulkarni तुम्ही आंदोलनाच्या ठिकाणी होता का? त्या मुलांची भाषा ऐकली का? मला तरी कुणाच्याही तोंडी गांधी किंवा अंबेडकरांचे नाव ऐकू नाही आले.

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@kushanmitra Reminds me of ‘Catch me if you can’

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@AUThackeray @priyankac19 At least you believe we are one nation. Those protesting don’t even believe in the concept of Nation.

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@rishibagree This girl needs to told that it is not रमायण, it is रामायण.

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

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This Brutalist building designed by Marcel Breuer has reopened as a Net-Zero Luxury Hotel.

Located in New Haven, Connecticut, the former headquarters for the Armstrong Rubber Company

By Evan Moffitt, Photography by Seamus Payne

#Architecture #MarcelBreuer #BrutalistDesign