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[The Seeker @TheSeeker268]

It's a shame no major film has been made about Biju Patnaik. He lived a life that sounds almost fictional:

In 1938, he flew his entire wedding procession by aircraft to Rawalpindi for his marriage to Gyanwati Sethi (who became the first Indian woman to hold a commercial pilot’s license, and the couple later flew daring missions together.)

While serving in the Royal Indian Air Force (including as head of Air Transport Command), he secretly ferried freedom fighters like Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia, and Aruna Asaf Ali to their hideouts. He also airdropped 'Quit India' leaflets to Indian troops while evacuating British families.

The British once jailed him for transporting nationalist leaders and distributing anti-British literature but also honored him for bravery in evacuating civilians from Japanese-occupied Burma.

During WWII, he flew daring missions delivering arms and supplies to Soviet forces in Stalingrad, and over the treacherous 'Hump' route to China in
support of Chinese Nationalist forces against the Japanese.

In July 1947, he and his wife flew a Dakota into Indonesia, landed on an improvised airstrip while evading Dutch anti-aircraft fire, rescued Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir, refuelled using abandoned Japanese fuel, and flew him safely to India via Singapore.

A couple of months later, during the Pakistani invasion of Kashmir, he airlifted one of the first Indian troops into Srinagar.

The same year he founded Kalinga Airlines, one of India's earliest private airlines.

As Odisha CM post-1962 India-China war, he secretly visited CIA headquarters at Langley to forge a covert India-US partnership against China, which led to the Aviation Research Centre (ARC) at Charbatia, which supported U-2 recon missions over Tibet.

He was also a legendary administrator and statesman, laying much of the foundation of Odisha's industrial empire (mines, ports, heavy industries etc).

When he passed away, Indonesia observed 7 days of state mourning. Russia observed 1 day. He remains the only person in Indian history whose body was draped in the national flags of 3 nations - India, Indonesia, and Russia.

Few public figures have left such a footprint.

His extraordinary life needs to be brought to the big screen.

[Ayushphy Cosmological @ayushphy]

Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri wanted mathematics. He was already working through an algebra book on his own, before the class had even gotten there, just because he liked solving the problems.

"I went over to physics rather than mathematics. The reason was very practical. My father told me that although I got a first class in mathematics, I was not a success in practical life, so think about studying some other subject rather than mathematics. And that is why I switched over to physics."

A father worried about practicality ended up redirecting one of the more impractical, beautiful pieces of theoretical physics of the century.

[Ethan Gao @ga0_lab]

Did you know you can create the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution with just some balls and a motor?

I built this simple device to illustrate it.

This is how it works: A spinning agitator pumps energy into ~400 balls, so they bounce around and collide like gas particles in a box.

They escape one at a time through a tiny hole, then fall a fixed gap into bins below. Since the hole is so small, every ball leaves with no vertical speed and takes the same time to fall.

Constant fall time means how far a ball flies sideways is set purely by its speed. A faster ball goes into a further bin. So each bin is really a speed. Tally all 400 and you get the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

This is brilliant! 🔥

Inspired by Nitin Gadkari, dairy farmers in Jaipur have introduced M0, M50 and M100 milk.

M100 milk is best for health and can even be consumed by lactose intolerant people. Because it is pure water! 🤣

[Javed Akhtar @Javedakhtarjadu]

The ministry of external affairs says that a passport is a document travel not the proof of citizen ship . Really ??? . So are they providing this travel document to some people with out being totally convinced that this person is an Indian citizen ?? . It is absurd .

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

I have a VOTER ID card, but NO, it is not proof of citizenship.
I have a AADHAR card but NO, it is not proof of citizenship
I have a PAN Card, but NO, it is not proof of citizenship.
I have a PASSPORT but NO, it is not proof of citizenship.
So who will give me a CITIZENSHIP CERTIFICATE? A govt bureaucrat?
My question is simple: is the problem with the citizen, or with the Mai Baap State itself?😡

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

Wanna Learn Physics for Free?

Here are some of the best freely available playlists from introductory Classical Mechanics to advanced topics like Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity.

These are high-quality university-level lecture series from MIT, Stanford and Caltech:

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

In the opening lecture of The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman posed a remarkable question: If all scientific knowledge were lost and only one sentence could be passed to future generations, what statement would preserve the most information?

His answer was the atomic hypothesis:

“All things are made of atoms.”

To Feynman, this single idea contained an enormous amount of knowledge. From the behavior of matter to the complexity of life and the structure of the cosmos, countless scientific discoveries emerge from understanding how atoms move and interact.

[Real World Physics @RWPhysics]

Differentiation vs Integration Explained Visually 🔥

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

Muthu Dosa corner, Dadar Mumbai. Muthu’s assistant should be inducted in the Indian cricket team as a slip fielder! 😀

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The Black-Scholes equation, used to price financial options since 1973, is secretly a sibling of the heat equation from physics. Economists Fischer Black and Myron Scholes borrowed the math of heat diffusion—how temperature spreads—to model stock price volatility. It’s a rare case where physics directly bankrolled Wall Street.

[Albert Einstein @AlbertEinstein]

#WednesdayWisdom: “The gift of imagination has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing absolute knowledge." – Albert Einstein

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The brilliant Flintstones technology.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Actual photo of Albert Einstein lecturing on the Theory of Relativity, 1922.

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog." - Mark Twain

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

― Ray Bradbury

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

— Abraham Lincoln