eSagan 🇮🇳 @crackurbones@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2019
🎓 Compared with the United States, students in China, India and Russia do not gain critical thinking skills over four years. Furthermore, while students in India and Russia gain academic skills during the first two years, students in China do not.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01062-3
Something we all know about the education system in Asia. Students are made to run a rat-race; they don't develop critical thinking skills.
Facebook Researchers Say They Can Detect Deepfakes And Where They Came From : NPR
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/o4id1y/facebook_researchers_say_they_can_detect/
Watch "This alien-like metal may one day power your electronics" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/xG7n0dl5I60
Space Pups: Mouse Sperm Which was 'Freeze Dried,' Stored on ISS Results in Birth of Healthy Young
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/space-pups-mouse-sperm-which-was-freeze-dried-stored-on-iss-results-in-birth-of-healthy-young-3837956.html
I Transitioned to Quantum Computing Later in My Career — Here’s What It Was Like | by Qiskit | Qiskit | Jun, 2021 | Medium
https://medium.com/qiskit/i-transitioned-to-quantum-computing-later-in-my-career-heres-what-it-was-like-a0ad53147e8b
Long text: On Saraswati River and debunking the colonial-era AIT
Many often use old sources for explaining AIT, there has been a lot of work done off late lets look at them. The time quoted for the arrival of Aryans doesn't match up with anything.
Because after the Saraswati was discovered it destroyed a lot of facts. Before that no one knew about this river which is been mentioned so much in Vedas. So one simple thing to ask is why would the arrivals (Aryans) come and settle down on a dry river bed because the time which was earlier quoted for the arrival of the Aryans is the time when the river was already dry. Why would they not settle somewhere higher up where the rivers were still flowing but they did on Saraswati which was dry river already and wrote Vedas mentioning how great the river was..
The Aryans could have done this unless they were good in time traveling . Now coming to the IVC there is every evidence that the traditions, culture and lifestyle followed in the Harappans are present in IVC and also in any Indian culture in any part of India even today. Just a take a rural guy to the sites of the Harappan he won't notice much difference what he follows in his village and what is present in the harappan sites. From measurements to architecture, rituals, fire worshiping so many things which were present in the Harappans are also mentioned in the Artha Shastra. We have less knowledge on post Harappan period.
What is called as the Dark Age and the beginning of the IVC. What happened in this period is the missing piece.
But when you look at the IVC and today's India you see there was nothing lost at all, most of the culture, tradition is still followed, does the modern India still have all the traits of the Harappans ?
Rakhigar DNA Research Paper (Link below)
The recent research paper on Rakhigar says the below, We also provide an independent line of evidence from Genetics, to support existing archaeological evidence, to suggest that there was substantial migration of people from The Harappan civilization into Eastern Iran and Central Asia.Like the author explains in the book "Lost River Saraswati" take any rural indian villager to the ruins or the sites of the Harappa he wont find any difference between his village and those sites, the life style culture , architecture and so many other things are still followed.
There is nothing lost.
''It is also possible now that the Neolithic in Western Iran and Anatolia could have had admixture from South Asia rather than vice verse as earlier believed.'''Our report gives strong genetic evidence to suggest that the Neolithic began independently in South Asia without any input from Fertile Crescent by a people distantly related to Iranian Neolithic farmers.'''' Harappan Civilization was a more powerful civilization than was previously admitted in academia, considering that we found influence was higher from Sindhu-Sarasvati area to the Jiroft Culture of Iran & to the Oxus Civilization of Central Asia than the other way around. https://twitter.com/NirajRai3/status/1169686462977044480?s=20
There is no doubt there was migration of central Asian nomads into India, but one can't call it invasion like many do. Also many of the AIT facts have been debunked and one missing puzzle is the horses. Some interesting links and AIT related news, ASI finds 2,300-year-old artefacts in Odisha Indus Valley Civilisation is largest source of ancestry for South Asians: David Reich An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers
The individual was from a population that is the largest source of ancestry for South Asians
Iranian-related ancestry in South Asia split from Iranian plateau lineages >12,000 years ago
First farmers of the Fertile Crescent contributed little to no ancestry to later South Asians
Summary We report an ancient genome from the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). The individual we sequenced fits as a mixture of people related to ancient Iranians (the largest component) and Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers, a unique profile that matches ancient DNA from 11 genetic outliers from sites in Iran and Turkmenistan in cultural communication with the IVC. These individuals had little if any Steppe pastoralist-derived ancestry, showing that it was not ubiquitous in northwest South Asia during the IVC as it is today. The Iranian-related ancestry in the IVC derives from a lineage leading to early Iranian farmers, herders, and hunter-gatherers before their ancestors separated, contradicting the hypothesis that the shared ancestry between early Iranians and South Asians reflects a large-scale spread of western Iranian farmers east. Instead, sampled ancient genomes from the Iranian plateau and IVC descend from different groups of hunter-gatherers who began farming without being connected by substantial movement of people.
Niraj Rai, one of the authors of the paper, categorically states on twitter that "We also provide an independent line of evidence from Genetics, to support existing archaeological evidence, to suggest that there was substantial migration of people from The Harappan civilization into Eastern Iran and Central Asia." https://twitter.com/NirajRai3/status/1169687037122793477?s=19
Another critical point shared by Prof Scientist Anand Ranganathan which underlines the importance of this paper https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1169895129856921601?s=19
Prof Shinde, principal author of the Rakhigarhi study, "ALL the developments right from the hunting-gathering stage to modern times in South Asia were done by indigenous people.” https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1169893591734337537?s=19
Saraswati flowed in Haryana till early 15th century: Study
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/o3ahed/saraswati_flowed_in_haryana_till_early_15th/
First patient dosed in BioNTech Phase II trial of mRNA cancer vaccine
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/o3224w/first_patient_dosed_in_biontech_phase_ii_trial_of/
India's ZyCoV-D set to become world's first DNA Covid vaccine as govt approval likely soon
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/o3316z/indias_zycovd_set_to_become_worlds_first_dna/
A 1000-year-old Indian temple had an early form of air conditioning
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/o35m2f/a_1000yearold_indian_temple_had_an_early_form_of/
Okenite basalt geode, from India, in my cabinet. [OC]
https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/comments/o271ci/okenite_basalt_geode_from_india_in_my_cabinet_oc/
I went down the rabbit hole of the #chemistry of historic #copper ore processing in smelters. Found this very detailed explanation by a rather sassy author who provided incredible details on the subject.
https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/comments/o2tuoa/i_went_down_the_rabbit_hole_of_the_chemistry_of/
https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_a/backbone/ra_1_3.html
Addressing the human cost in a changing climate | Science
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6548/1284
Mathematicians Prove 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Really Works | Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-2d-version-of-quantum-gravity-really-works-20210617/
Earth, space, time, and more: Read how Indian scholars had recorded astronomical facts centuries before they were ‘discovered’ by Westerners
https://www.opindia.com/2021/06/indian-scholars-had-recorded-astronomical-facts-centuries-ago/amp/
Centre approves Rs 4,000 crore 'deep ocean mission'; #ISRO to develop special under-water capsule https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/o1qbn5/centre_approves_rs_4000_crore_deep_ocean_mission/
#Graphene can be used to detect COVID-19 quickly, accurately https://phys.org/news/2021-06-graphene-covid-quickly-accurately.html
Helgoland and the captivating origins of quantum theory – Physics World
https://physicsworld.com/helgoland-and-the-captivating-origins-of-quantum-theory/
Earth has lost and gained many oceans. Here's where a new one might appear next.
https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/article/earth-has-lost-and-gained-many-oceans-heres-where-a-new-one-might-appear-next
Meghalaya - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghalaya
The importance of #Meghalaya is its possible role in human history via domestication of #rice. One of the competing theories for the origin of rice comes from Ian Glover, who states, "India is the center of greatest diversity of domesticated rice with over 20,000 identified species and #NortheastIndia is the most favorable single area of the origin of domesticated rice."[18] The limited #archaeology done in the hills of Meghalaya suggest human settlement since ancient times.[19]
Joined Nov 2019
