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Ajay Zaveri

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Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.~ Diane Ackerman.

Mumbai, India Beigetreten Nisan 2020
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Ajay Zaveri@EntropyNotebook·
It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness. ~ James Gleick,
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@virsanghvi @IndiGo6E They don’t have priority baggage handling even for their so called business class. They are just exploiting their monopoly
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People keep complaining about @IndiGo6E ground handling so here’s my experience today at Khajuraho airport. Three check in counters open & manned but two refuse to accept passengers. Every one is directed to one counter manned by a trainee. As I am checking in I ask the counter supervisor why the other counters won’t accept passengers. “They are only for fast forward.” Me: I thought there was no fast forward any longer! “It’s not on the site but we do have it” Me: What do you get in fast forward? “You get priority baggage handling and priority boarding.” Me: If I had known I would have taken it. “You can still take it.” I hand over my credit card. He swipes it. As the luggage is being tagged I notice there is. no Fast Forward tag and ask about it. “ We stopped doing priority baggage handling for Fast Forward. It only gives you priority check in. “ But I had already checked in. I wouldn’t have taken it if you hadn’t told me about priority baggage handling . “I never said priority baggage handling.” Yes you did . I heard you. “Okay at least you can board any time you like.” I ask for the manager. The supervisor insists he never said anything about baggage handling. Manager: “I will not accept that my staff are lying.” But you think I am lying? He shrugs. The sum of money is small & the issue is minor. But given how much we have heard about the culture of lying in @indigo , firing one gora scapegoat may not be enough. The rot has infected the culture
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𝙍𝘼𝙅𝙀𝙎𝙃 𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙄𝙆𝙃
Science without the humanities is a powerful engine with no steering wheel. The history of science is, at its core, a history of ideas, which is philosophy. Technology without cultural literacy produces products that are parochial at best, harmful at worst. The real problem is that the education system has made specialisation a virtue and curiosity a luxury and students internalise that hierarchy before they’re old enough to question it.
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Karthik Balachandran
Karthik Balachandran@karthik2k2·
Those who saw’A Beautiful Mind’, would remember that John Nash’s doctoral thesis had just 26 pages and 2 references, yet it was instrumental in advancing “Game theory”. What if I told you there is a scientist whose achievement is so astounding that he is perhaps the only Indian to “create” an intersectional branch of science? What if I told you that every year, his name echoes across the hallowed halls of science in foreign lands, but most of our students haven't even heard of him? Aneesur Rahman was born in Hyderabad in British India in 1927. His father was a professor and a philanthropist. His family generously donated their property for the creation of Urdu Hall in Hyderabad. His maternal uncle was a professor too. Rahman had a natural flair for subjects that would terrify ‘normal’ students — maths and physics. After getting BSc in Mathematics, he went on to get Tripos in Mathematics and Physics at the prestigious Cambridge University in the UK. From there, he went to Louvaine University in Belgium and got DSc in Physics under Professor Mannenbeck. It’s here that Rahman met a Chinese student Yueh-Erh Li who was doing MD( called Dr Jady by friends). They fell in love and got married. He came back to teach in Osmania university along with his wife. Soon after, he developed interest in the structure of water molecule - especially the polarisation of the hydrogen atom. Unfortunately research in India was at infancy in those days and Dr Rahman realized he was a whale in a tiny pond. He had to move to the ocean. He joined the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. His foundational paper in 1964 birthed “molecular dynamics” , one of the two pillars on which a vast body of computational physics rests.(the other is Monte Carlo method). His equation made it possible to calculate the trajectory of large number of interacting atoms with ease. His work, like Ramanujan’s , was so ahead of his time - that even today, potential applications are being discovered. The Nobel prize in physics for 2013 went to Karplus, Levitt and Warshel whose work depended heavily on Dr Aneesur Rahman’s. Some say there is an inverse association between genius and compassion -Dr Rahman was a prominent exception. He was known not just for his intellect, but also kind nature and mentored many students all over the world. His quiet, unassuming nature made him a much loved professor — and he remained so, until he got Non Hodgkin’s lymphoma — a cancer that took him away from us prematurely, at the age of 59. Perhaps he might have got a Nobel, if only he had lived longer. American Physical Society honors him as the father of computational physics and has instituted an annual award in his name. As a doctor with little idea of theoretical physics, writing Dr Aneesur Rahman’s portrait has been difficult , because of the complex nature of his work that straddles so many areas of science : mathematics, physics, computer science and chemistry. His equations are mind boggling, even intimidating, but what I do understand is this : Dr Rahman didn't just have a beautiful mind, but also a beautiful heart.
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STATLOGS@praveenvar1625·
Dr. Yellapragada Subba Row (1895–1948) - Born in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India Known as the “Wizard of Wonder Drugs” for his extraordinary contributions Scientific community feels he deserved atleast 3 Nobel Prizes for his Pioneering drug discoveries Both at Harvard and Lederle Labs, New york he discovered the following : 1. The Fiske-Subbarow Method Working with Cyrus Fiske, he developed a colorimetric method for the estimation of phosphorus in body fluids. Published in 1925, this became one of the most cited papers in scientific history (over 20,000 citations). 2. Discovery of ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) He was the first to isolate and identify ATP and phosphocreatine, describing their role as the primary "energy currency" of the cell. This discovery is a cornerstone of every biology textbook today, explaining how muscles contract and how cells store energy. 3. Synthesis of Folic Acid (Vitamin B9) : Driven by the tragic loss of his brothers to tropical sprue (a nutritional deficiency disease), he successfully synthesized folic acid in 1945. This was crucial for treating macrocytic anemia and is now a global standard for preventing birth defects during pregnancy. 4. Methotrexate : The world's first effective chemotherapy drug. Developed alongwith with Dr. Sidney Farber, it revolutionized the treatment of childhood leukemia and is still used for various cancers and rheumatoid arthritis. 5. Aureomycin : The first tetracycline (broad-spectrum) antibiotic. It was effective against a much wider range of bacteria than penicillin, including those causing typhus and the plague. 6.Diethylcarbamazine (Hetrazan) : A breakthrough treatment for Filariasis (elephantiasis), a disease that afflicted millions in Asia and Africa. 7. Vitamin B12 : His lab was instrumental in isolating and concentrating liver extracts to treat Pernicious Anemia, leading to the identification of B12. Global Health Impact: His medicines continue to save lives worldwide.
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Ajay Zaveri@EntropyNotebook·
@Geeky_Foodie Oh that’s too bad - Then you need good RO Let me suggest in a day or two
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WabiSabi
WabiSabi@Geeky_Foodie·
Need to replace this under the counter water purifier that we got 9 years ago from A O Smith. Needed frequent repairs and replacement through the 9 years. It was the only one available then, there are more options now but the reviews for all the available brands are underwhelming if not concerning. Any tried and tested recommendations?
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@TheSanjivKapoor It was easier to start a new Airline then buying a AI of flying coffins ⚰️
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Sanjiv Kapoor
Sanjiv Kapoor@TheSanjivKapoor·
And all power to them! Air India was one of the world's finest airlines as long as JRD was running it, right up to 1977 when he was dismissed by Morarji Desai. While it was nationalized in the 1950s, the glory days were the late 50s thru the 70s, as the govt had JRD run it.
K Singh@KSingh_1469

The deplorable state TATA inherited air India in can never be overstated. VT-ALL’s history tells you everything about state ownership, cannibalised and grounded TATA deserves at least a decade to turn everything around and anyone already writing them off is a complete idiot

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'Once widely spoken across Kashmir’s highlands, Shina – spoken by nearly 50,000 people in Gurez and Drass – is now at risk of fading into silence. Can technology and digital activism save it from extinction? thewire.in/culture/the-ba…
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Parminder Singh
Parminder Singh@parrysingh·
Five step hotel pre-shower routine for those who wear glasses: 1. Step into the shower, squint to read labels - unsuccessfully. 2. Step out, wear glasses, step back in. 3. Memorise the sequence: left-shampoo, middle-conditioner, right-shower gel. 4. Step out to keep the glasses safely back. 5. Return… now to figure out how the shower knob works.
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@JhaSanjay Even Kotak is in a mess in terms of culture of senior management and leadership
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Sanjay Jha@JhaSanjay·
HDFC WILL BE THE HEADLINE TODAY HDFC Bank looks worrying. Why did the Chairman resign? Abruptly? Its market capitalization is Rs 6.5 Lakh crore. Huge player. Something fishy out there. Looks like a rough Thursday ahead. There is something rotten in our financial system.
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Sabeer Bhatia
Sabeer Bhatia@sabeer·
Those who define themselves by the title on their business card haven’t yet understood the meaning of life.
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Vishal Bhargava@VishalBhargava5·
I’m his well-wisher, so I’ll say it again. @nitin_gadkari should hang up his boots. Most others do not have a legacy to worry about. He does. He should exit before it’s too late and salvage whatever is left of his legacy. Every bumpy ride on a newly built Highway will kill it.
Vishal Bhargava@VishalBhargava5

I’ve been on the Delhi Mumbai Expressway. Some parts are so bad that it will make a competent engineer hide in shame. When history is written, BJP’s greatest failure will be burning tons of money for shabby infra. And killing the spirit of every infra-enthusiast in India.

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An internationally celebrated poet and critic translates Jagadish Chandra Bose’s revolutionary writings on plant sentience and communication Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) was a Bengali scientist and polymath who developed a theory of plant communication more than a century ago. Bose suggested that plants had their own vocabulary, an “unvoiced life” that he recorded as a “script” with a crescograph, a device that measured how plants respond to each other and their environments. Inviting readers into the “resounding silence of the green plant kingdom,” he described an underlying unity beneath the multiplicity of phenomena, and a world in which “endless music is sung everywhere.” Dismissed as idiosyncratic and unscientific when he was alive, Bose provocatively challenged the hierarchy of living beings, which relegated plants to the bottom, and created a mesmerizing body of work on nonhuman intelligence. Through her lyrical translations from Bose’s essay collection Abyakta (“The Unsaid”; 1922), Sumana Roy reveals the revolutionary character of his mind, as poetic and philosophical as it was scientific.
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@malpani As if gov hospitals are any better ??
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Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD
Why corporate Indian hospitals are death traps
Felix Prehn 🐶@felixprehn

Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends. A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets. Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses. The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits. A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days. Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive. The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away. The investing angle nobody talks about. Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in. Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies. The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates. Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try. (a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

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Margareta Magnusson, who taught the world to tidy up before signing off, dies at 92 | Her book, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, introduced the world to the Swedish concept of döstädning indianexpress.com/article/books-…
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