RT @samar11@twitter.com
"... a leader, conjures up a glorious mythical past and seeks to go back to it with a hyper-nationalist call. It always creates an out-group, an enemy of the order — all of which have now happened in India."
Two IAS officers who quit service on India today https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/nrc-is-anti-poor-and-dehumanises-an-out-group-say-former-ias-officers/article30131566.ece
Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Dark energy might not exist after all
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/11/dark-energy-might-not-exist-after-all.html?m=1
There are some interesting comments too ..
Trying out a #vidéo post here - the first one for me, so unsure of the results.
This is a recent #timelapse #video of a #flight between Paro and Delhi. We were lucky that we were routed through the northern corridor after Kathmandu and I was able to spot 8 of the 9 eight-thousanders that one can possibly see. Including the mighty #Everest.
If ever you are flying this route, pick your window seat carefully. You could get lucky as well.
This racist/colorist aspect of varna has left no faith untouched in the subcontinent, for instance Ashraf/Ajlaf/Arzal endogamy. Here a mohalla in Muzaffarpur, Bihar with a wall right down the middle of the road to keep apart the Sheikhs and Ansaris.
It’s amazing how prescient Ambedkar was in his speech 70 years ago. Just read this speech and see how much of his warnings we ignored. http://pragati.nationalinterest.in/2010/08/the-grammar-of-anarchy/
RT @tavleen_singh@twitter.com
This should shame every Indian. The protesting students should be expelled for going against the constitution of India. https://twitter.com/nidhi/status/1196637838810517505
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tavleen_singh/status/1196700736484184066
#ElectoralBonds: Modi's Office directed the finance ministry to break its own rules to approve the special & illegal sale of electoral bonds shortly before critical elections in Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan & Telangana.
By May 2019, more than Rs 6,000 crore worth of electoral bonds had been sold and secretly donated to political parties. It is likely that the party in power, BJP, garnered most of the money.
Rapid Uplift: Kumaon Lesser Himalaya- Lessons In Mountain Building
http://suvratk.blogspot.com/2019/11/kumaon-lesser-himalaya-lessons-in.html
Philosophy, Maths, Logic and Computers: Richard Marshall interviews Jeremy Avigad | 3 Quarks Daily
https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2019/11/philosophy-maths-logic-and-computers-richard-marshall-interviews-jeremy-avigad.html
"The horizon is not a place, e.g. two points at the horizon are not spacelike separated. The horizon is lightlike meaning that the spacetime interval between any two points on it is zero. Anything anywhere at the horizon is simultaneously everywhere at the horizon."
If, for outside observers, infalling matter never enters the black hole, what happens to the matter's gravity? - Physics Stack Exchange
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/514686/if-for-outside-observers-infalling-matter-never-enters-the-black-hole-what-ha?atw=1
‘I’m Not Alone’: Muslim BHU Sanskrit Prof Reacts to Public Support
“People are supporting me. They are understanding my predicament. I am happy that I am not alone,” Firoze Khan says, sounding relaxed.
#IndiasMuslims #IndianMuslims
https://www.thequint.com/news/india/bhu-sanskrit-professor-firoze-khan-reacts-to-positive-social-media-support
Watch "The Problem With Quantum Theory | Full Interview | Tim Maudlin" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/hC3ckLqsL5M
Have I ever shared my blog here? I dont think so. I need to update it but it has a lot of good content if your into STEM. You guys should check it out:
http://jeffreyfreeman.me/blog/
(I posted this a few minutes ago which made me realize the link was down. I fixed it and should work now)
One line of computer programming, whichever language you were using. Up to 80 characters wide, same as the card's width.
I remember. And we loved it. No home computers, no cellphones, no internet. Mid 70's in my case.
Now that's called the birth of a propaganda!
The two-page booklet "Aama Bapuji: Eka Jhalaka" (Our Bapuji: A Glimpse) -- published on the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi -- presents a brief account of his teachings, works and links with Odisha, while also stating that he "died due to accidental reasons in a sudden sequence of events on January 30, 1948 at Delhi's Birla House".
https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/gandhi-killed-by-accident/cid/1719623
PhD student Shubham Tiwari, who is also taking part in the protests, told ThePrint: “In this department, there are no teachers, all are our gurus. Everyone keeps a choti (tuft of hair on the head), we touch their feet and participate in havan (a ritual). If a Muslim professor is accorded a place in the department, then it will be open discrimination against the students. A Muslim can’t teach us our dharma.”