A prank!
He entered the elevator acting like he was talking to his girlfriend on the phone and told her;
"I'm hanging up now, your husband is in the elevator with me!", then stepped out! 😂😂
Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains have operated for over 60 years with a perfect safety record: zero passenger fatalities from crashes or derailments.
Since the first line opened in 1964, the network has carried more than 10 billion passengers while traveling at speeds of up to 200 mph (320 km/h). This makes it one of the safest high-speed transportation systems in history.
The remarkable safety stems from deliberate design choices: dedicated, grade-separated tracks that eliminate crossings with other trains, roads, or freight; advanced automated control systems; real-time earthquake detection that can stop trains within seconds; and rigorous, continuous maintenance and staff training.
The system is equally renowned for its punctuality. In fiscal year 2023, the average delay across the network was just 1.6 minutes per train, even when including disruptions from earthquakes, typhoons, and other natural events.
On the busiest Tokaido Shinkansen line (Tokyo–Osaka), around 432,000 passengers ride daily, with trains departing every few minutes. Few transportation systems worldwide match this combination of speed, scale, safety, and reliability.
Tripod fish live at depths of up to 6000 m below the surface. They are practically eyeless because of its super-dark habitat but their long fins can feel the vibrations made by approaching prey on the seafloor
[📹 Schmidt Ocean]
When the tournament began, he had lost 3 of his first 6 classical games.
Most players would have been fighting to salvage their campaign.
Instead, R Praggnanandhaa produced one of the greatest comebacks of his career.
He defeated Alireza Firouzja. Then Magnus Carlsen. Then reigning World Champion D Gukesh.
And when everything was on the line, he beat Vincent Keymer in the final round.
Four consecutive classical wins.
Against some of the strongest players on the planet.
At just 20, Praggnanandhaa has become the first Indian ever to win Norway Chess — one of the toughest tournaments in the world.
@NorwayChess | @rpraggnachess
#ChessChampion #RPraggnanandhaa #ChessComeback #YoungGenius #IndianChess
[R Praggnanandhaa Wins, Chess Comeback Story, Indian Chess Player, Magnus Carlsen Defeat, Young Chess Prodigy]
Lois Gibson holds a Guinness World Record that may never be broken: her forensic sketches have helped identify over 1,300 criminals and contributed to more than 1,000 convictions, more than any other forensic artist in history.
But her extraordinary career was born from unimaginable pain.
At just 21 years old, Lois was brutally attacked, strangled, and left for dead by a serial rapist and murderer. She survived the ordeal, and made a solemn vow: no one else should ever suffer the way she did.
Driven by that promise, she walked into the Houston Police Department with nothing but determination and a sketchbook. Victims would often tell her, “I didn’t see his face.” But Lois understood trauma differently.
“If you saw the expression,” she would gently say, “you saw the face.”
Sitting with terrified, trembling survivors for hours, she coaxed out tiny details buried in fear: the slant of an eyebrow, a crooked smile, a hidden scar, the tension in a jawline. From these fragments, she created portraits so accurate that suspects were frequently arrested within hours.
Lois Gibson didn’t just draw faces: she drew justice from trauma.
Today, she stands as a powerful example of what can happen when unimaginable pain is transformed into purpose, turning personal tragedy into protection for thousands.
Did you know?
You can use Fibonacci numbers to convert miles into km and viceversa. If you need to convert from km to miles, you just need to find the preceding Fibonacci number.
This is because there are 1.609 km in a mile, almost the Golden ratio.
Every summer, when the heat rises, silence becomes dangerous for wildlife. Not because they disappear, but because they suffer quietly.
In a simple but powerful effort, Sharvan Patel has been digging shallow ponds and filling them with tanker water so that birds and animals have something basic to survive the scorching heat. A small pool of water, but for them, it can mean life.
Across India, heatwaves are becoming more intense, and water sources in rural and forest edges are drying up faster than ever. In such conditions, even a few litres of water placed thoughtfully can help birds, stray animals, and insects survive the day.
Still, one truth remains clear. Small human actions can soften extreme heat for the most vulnerable lives around us.
A bowl of water outside your home might seem ordinary. For them, it could be everything.
Sharvan is doing his part. The question is, will we do ours too.
Credits : thar_desert_photography on IG
#WildlifeConservation #AnimalRescue #HeatwaveRelief
[wildlife conservation India, heatwave animal rescue]
In a Telangana town, a bull comes to a dosa stall each morning for a snack.
The stall owner, the bull's friend, makes him two dosas with no-spice potato masala. The bull waits patiently until they are done.
After he fan cools the dosas he feeds them to his friend.
This routine has been on for years.
A lovely film made by Raju Hirani on the occasion of 100 years of Bajaj group, a business family I respect immensely. What was amazing to me was that the characters enacted by the Bajaj family members are all done by AI!!
The physics of what's happening in that 0.1 seconds of contact should bother you.
Those tires are completely stationary when they hit the ground. The plane is moving at 250 km/h. For the first fraction of a second, the rubber isn't rolling. It's skidding. Pure friction has to accelerate 22 wheels, each weighing 120 kg, from zero to 155 mph in roughly a tenth of a second.
The tread surface goes from -50°C at cruising altitude to over 200°C at the moment of contact. A 250-degree temperature swing in 0.1 seconds. The smoke you see at every commercial landing is rubber vaporizing off the tire surface. Studies at Manchester and Heathrow found that tire smoke at touchdown produces a greater magnitude of particulate emissions than the jet engines themselves.
The tires are inflated to 200 PSI, six times your car's tire pressure, and they're filled with nitrogen instead of air. Regular air contains moisture that would flash to steam and oxygen that could combust at those friction temperatures. Nitrogen eliminates both risks.
Each tire costs $5,500 and lasts about 250 landings before replacement. The A380 carries 22 of them. At max landing weight, those 22 contact patches are distributing 391 metric tons across roughly 15 square feet of rubber. That's 57,000 pounds per square foot.
The reason they don't pre-spin the wheels before landing, which would eliminate the skid and save millions in tire wear, is weight. Adding electric motors to 22 wheels increases fuel burn on every single flight. The math says it's cheaper to vaporize rubber 250 times and buy new tires than to carry the motors.
Ahmedabad is a hopelessly boring Tier 2 city. Please don’t move here.
Living here is an absolute nightmare:
• Zero Adrenaline: Women are just casually roaming around at 2 AM eating ice cream without fearing for their lives or dodging intense police naka bandis. Where is the survival thrill?
• No Linguistic Pride: If you don't speak Gujarati, nobody even threatens to beat you up or smash your shop's signboards. They just awkwardly reply in broken Hindi. Absolutely no passion!
• No Traffic Trauma: The roads are so wide and well planned that you actually reach your destination in 20 minutes. How am I supposed to finish my audiobooks or rethink my life choices during a 3 hour bumper to bumper commute?
• Missing Action: Someone bumps into your vehicle, and they just say sorry and pay you instead of pulling out a hockey stick. No street fights, no "Tu jaanta nahi mera baap kaun hai." So dull.
• Zero Aesthetic Culture: No underground drug or Udta Punjab vibes. Just boring, safe, sober families existing everywhere.
Honestly, it’s unbearable. Please stay in your happening metro cities, enjoy spending half your life in traffic and keep breathing that sweet AQI 1000 air.