The Āryabhaṭa numeration is an alphasyllabic numeral system based on Sanskrit phonemes. It was introduced in the early 6th century in India by Āryabhaṭa, in the first chapter titled Gītika Padam of his Aryabhatiya. It attributes a numerical value to each syllable of the form consonant+vowel possible in Sanskrit phonology, from ka = 1 up to hau = 10^18.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80ryabha%E1%B9%ADa_numeration
A machine seems to repair human livers and keep them alive for a week https://t.co/POhHoFMgJs https://t.co/pCIV6EfWbY
https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1217328567308165120?s=19
Interestingly, one positive diet trend that Indians followed in 2019 was replacing white rice and wheat with healthier grains, finds a survey.
https://fit.thequint.com/health-news/keto-intermittent-indias-top-diet-trends https://mastodon.social/@QuintFit/103384232473348999
Something else I got to discover about today is this thing called "bamboo rice".
Bamboo Rice: Everything You Need to Know About the Tribal Savory!
https://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/bamboo-rice-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-tribal-savory-1688120
🇮🇳 India Ranks 3rd Globally In Scientific Research
Since 1990, #France’s forest areas have increased by 7%, in #Nepal, satellite images revealed that forests expanded from 26% in 1992 to 45% in 2016, and Costa Rica announced it has doubled its forest cover in the last 30 years.
🌲 https://futurecrun.ch/99-good-news-2019 🌳
How open source programming can offer opportunities after incarceration.
http://www.opensource.com/article/20/1/prison-to-python
#ISRO releases high-res images of #Qatar's capital city, #Doha, captured by #CartoSAT-3
https://in.news.yahoo.com/isro-releases-high-res-images-040155603.html
#CartoSAT3
A kite flying festival. Watercolour by an Indian artist, 19th century.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/eog3mg/a_kite_flying_festival_watercolour_by_an_indian/
A startling experimental discovery in 2013 set in motion a series of mathematical proofs that have unsettled centuries of thinking.
For Fluid Equations, a Steady Flow of Progress
https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-fluid-equations-a-steady-flow-of-progress-20200113/
An Earth-size planet in the habitable zone? New NASA discovery is one special world
https://www.space.com/amp/nasa-tess-exoplanet-habitable-zone-discovery-milestone.html
The Oldest Known Material on Earth Is Officially Older Than The Solar System
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-meteorite-discovered-in-australia-contains-oldest-known-material-on-earth/amp
India should lead in the fight against multidrug-resistant pathogens
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/india-should-lead-in-the-fight-against-multidrug-resistant-pathogens/article30544299.ece
#TIL On the etymology/origin of the word ‘titration’.
The word "titration" descends from the French word tiltre (1543), meaning the proportion of gold or silver in coins or in works of gold or silver; i.e., a measure of fineness or purity. Tiltre became titre,[4] which thus came to mean the "fineness of alloyed gold",[5] and then the "concentration of a substance in a given sample".[6] In 1828, the French chemist Gay-Lussac first used titre as a verb (titrer), meaning "to determine the concentration of a substance in a given sample".[7]
Drinking tea at least three times a week is linked with a longer and healthier life, Chinese researchers have found -- but the benefits of green tea are more pronounced https://t.co/qveP7nFWuG
The universe was filled with fog until three galaxies started clearing it out. https://t.co/74mx95dZl2
Earth's most invasive species is a frog-killing fungus
http://pops.ci/qQ2DAj
https://twitter.com/PopSci/status/1216080099809906688?s=20
Meet the Mainframe - Meet My #Mainframe
https://youtu.be/C1YGE7m33iQ
A lack of sleep makes your brain eat itself, new research suggests. Glial cells are your brain’s loving caretakers -- until you deny them sleep: https://t.co/GHIDRPY1c7 https://t.co/nTY9mQz83O
https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1215941051162267649?s=19