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In 1944, a Swiss engineer named Hans Hilfiker designed a clock for train stations. Sixty-eight years later, Apple put it on the iPad without asking. Switzerland sent them a $22 million bill. Apple paid. The clock has a red second hand that sweeps the dial in 58.5 seconds, then pauses for a beat at the top of the minute. It waits for an electric signal from one master clock somewhere in the country before jumping forward. Every clock at every station shows the same second. This kind of obsession runs through every Swiss train ride. Two crews drilled through 35 miles of solid Alps from opposite ends to build the Gotthard Base Tunnel. After 17 years and $12 billion, they met in the middle, 3 inches off. Vertically, the misalignment was under half an inch. It is the longest train tunnel on Earth, and the deepest, with up to 1.4 miles of rock overhead. Nine workers died building it. Switzerland has more train track per square mile than any country in Europe. Nearly three times more than the European average. The Swiss ride more trains per person than anyone in the world except Japan. The average is 1,500 miles a year. Punctuality runs on its own scale. Last year, 94 out of every 100 Swiss trains arrived on time. And in Switzerland, "on time" means "within 3 minutes of the schedule." Germany gives trains 6 minutes. France and Italy give 5. Use Germany's gentler rule, and 99 out of 100 Swiss long-distance trains arrived on time. Germany itself manages 62. The trains have been fully electric for decades. Since January 2025, all of that electricity comes from clean energy, mostly from eight hydroelectric plants the railway owns. A long-distance Swiss train carries one passenger 60 miles on about half the electricity an electric car would use. Scenery like that takes work. It takes a country that spends $18 billion on its trains in four years, powers them with Alpine water, drills 35 miles through solid mountain, and treats a 3-minute delay as a national failure. The view out the window is what's left over.

Harvard scientists ran a simple test. They put adults under blue light for 6 hours one night, then under green light at the same brightness the next. Blue light pushed their bedtimes back by 3 hours. Green pushed them back by 1.5. And in kids, the same lights hit about twice as hard. The reason comes down to a tiny patch of cells at the back of every human eye. These cells have one job. They tell your brain whether it is day or night. They wake up most when light hits a very specific shade of blue, the same shade phone screens and modern bulbs are loaded with. When those cells fire after dark, the brain stops making melatonin, the chemical that pulls you toward sleep. Red light barely sets off those cells at all. A 2025 study from the University of Zaragoza put people under red lamps and blue lamps for three hours at night. Under blue, their melatonin stayed scraped to the floor. Under red, it climbed back up to more than three times higher. Same brightness. The color did all the work. Children get this worse than adults. Two reasons. Their pupils are bigger, so more light gets in. And the lens inside a kid's eye is still glass-clear, where adult lenses slowly yellow with age and filter blue out naturally. A 10-year-old's body clock is roughly twice as sensitive to evening light as a 45-year-old's. A bedside lamp that feels harmless to a parent can be wrecking a kid's sleep clock at the same time. Then there is the lag. Once the brain catches a dose of blue light, the wake-up signal it sends out keeps echoing for 3 to 4 hours after the lights go off. So a kid on an iPad at 9pm can still be wired at midnight even if you took the iPad away at 9:01. Modern LED bulbs and screens are tuned to roughly 6500 Kelvin. That is sunlight at noon. Old incandescent bulbs sit around 2700, mostly red and yellow with almost nothing in the blue range. To a human eye, a red-lit room is just about as close to no light at all as you can get. The brain reads it as nighttime. The fix is boring. Use warm bulbs at 2700 Kelvin or lower in any room a kid spends evenings in, switch off phones and tablets two hours before bed, and if a night light is needed for bathroom trips, make it red or amber. The science was pinned down to the exact color of light back in 2001.

Not one article on TCS in @newslaundry. Not one article on TCS in @scroll_in. Not one article on TCS in @thewire_in. Not one report on TCS by @ravish_journo. Not one report on TCS by @ajitanjum. Not one report on TCS by @abhisar_sharma. Ladies & gentlemen, “truth-to-power.”

Truth Reminder: Your Muslim friend didn't post even one story condemning the Nashik TCS case. Yet that same friend has posted countless stories supporting Palestine, Iran, and Gaza. The exact same hypocrisy applies to Hindu feminist girls.

I was not aware that such law also exists in India If Hindu A gifts his land to Hindu B then Hindu B needs to register it and to pay stamp duty to govt (Section 123, TP Act) But if Muslim A gifts his land to Muslim B then Muslim B doesn’t need to register it or pay stamp duty to the govt (Section 129, TP Act based on Sharia law Hiba) When a petitioner approached the Supreme Court for this then the court asked him to approach the Central govt to amend this This law was made by Britishers in 1882 to divide India and after 1947 Congress continued it My question to all political parties Why don’t you just declare India a Sharia country?

India should learn geopolitics from Pakistan, become everyone’s bitch and dance in front of anyone who throws money their way, right? Wrong! Roz baap badal ke mujra karna Pakistaniyon ko hi suit karta hai, unhe karne do. India apne hisaab se chalega

The West poured $50 billion into fast breeder nuclear reactors and abandoned every single one. India poured $900 million and just achieved criticality on the first commercially viable one outside Russia. The US spent $15 billion. Gave up. Japan spent $12 billion. Their Monju prototype had one sodium fire in 1995 and never recovered. The UK spent $8 billion. Germany spent $6 billion. France, Italy, all walked away. Six of the richest nations on Earth concluded this technology was too hard and too expensive to pursue. India started building in 2004 with an initial budget of $420 million. Twenty-two years, a dozen missed deadlines, and a cost doubling later, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam just sustained a controlled fission chain reaction. The reactor is now alive. The reason India never quit is a constraint most people have never thought about. India has only 1-2% of the world's uranium reserves. For a country of 1.4 billion people trying to build energy independence, that's a death sentence if you're running conventional nuclear. But India has 25% of the world's thorium. The single largest national reserve on Earth. The problem: you can't just burn thorium the way you burn uranium. A physicist named Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear program in the 1950s specifically to solve this. Stage 1: burn natural uranium in heavy water reactors, collect plutonium as a byproduct. Stage 2: feed that plutonium into fast breeder reactors, where it breeds MORE plutonium AND converts thorium into fissile uranium-233. Stage 3: burn thorium directly at scale. India just entered Stage 2. Seventy years after Bhabha drew it up on paper. The math on the thorium endgame is wild. At current energy consumption rates, India's thorium reserves could power the country for over 700 years. Most nuclear nations are playing a uranium game with maybe 80-100 years of runway. India is playing a completely different game with a 7x longer fuel supply. The West quit because uranium stayed cheap and sodium coolant is terrifying. It catches fire on contact with air. It explodes on contact with water. Russia's BN-600 had 27 sodium leaks and 14 sodium fires between 1980 and 1997. And Russia kept going anyway because Russia doesn't quit nuclear projects. India watched all of that and kept going too. When you have 1% of the uranium but 25% of the thorium, the engineering difficulty stops being a reason to quit. It becomes the price of admission to a 700-year energy supply that nobody else can access.

Every Friday Trump declares he has won the war Every Saturday he gives ultimatum to Iran Every Sunday he says Iran is finished Every Monday he asks help from other countries Every Tuesday he says he doesn’t need any help Every Wednesday he says he wants peace Every Thursday he says war is not over

US Airforce: We had to bomb two C-130s, but we got our pilots back from Iran. US People : Our Military is Great, Strongest. We don't care about how many C-130s, F15s or F35 gets destroyed in the mission. Indian Airforce: We bombed 9 Terrorist Sites, 12 Airbases and All our Pilots are back home safely. Indian Journalist: We don't care about your mission, Your Terror Sites, Pak Air bases, Just Tell us how many Jets we lost during the mission.

News Articles on Indian Rafale going down during Operation Sindoor (Without Proofs) : The Washington Post : 7 The New York Times : 8 THE WIRE : 15 Al Jazeera : 12 The Independent: 6 Reuters: 11 News Articles on 16 American Fighter Jets going down during Epic Furry (With Proofs) : The Washington Post : 0 The New York Times : 0 THE WIRE : 0 Al Jazeera : 0 The Independent: 0 Reuters: 0 Do you see the double Standards!!

“The Supreme Court banning Prof Michel Danino and others for their NCERT chapter on judicial corruption, is nothing short of judicial dictatorship.” Thank you, @priyankac19, for being the voice of a billion Indians. You have said what the govt and its law minister should have.

Jaspreet Bumrah was born/stays in ahmedabad, speaks fluent Gujarati and plays for Gujarat. Experts consider him a talent like Donald Bradman, once in a century talent. Hardik Pandya stays in Baroda ( a twin city of Ahmedbad about 110 KM away / ~ one and half hour drive ) Akshar Patel stays in Nadiad ( ~ 57 KM away / under an hours drive ) Three player ~ 27 % of team playing in this final are from Ahmedabad or surround area which represents under 1 % of India’s population. Can this happen without a sporting culture ? Infact not many people would know but the first time cricket in the subcontinent was played in Khambhat ( Englishman’s pronounced it as Cambay ) few centuries ago, when the English crew of a waiting ship played the game. India, unlike, many western paradigms cannot be analysed in black and white, in linear equations or algorithms. It has to be felt, embraced and understood.

ઈરાનમાં ખોમેનઈની હત્યા બાદમાં શ્રીનગરમાં સતત વિરોધ પ્રદર્શનો ચાલી રહ્યા છે. એ વિરોધ પ્રદર્શન કરી રહ્યા છે તેં બધા શિયા મુસ્લિમ છે. હાલમાં ત્યાં તોડફોડ ચાલુ છે અને પોલીસ ગોઠવવી પડી છે. હવે તમને એક ફનફેક્ટ કહું! કશ્મીર વેલીમાં 1989 માં ફક્ત હિંદુઓને જ નહોતા ભગાડવામાં આવ્યા પણ ત્યારે શિયાઓ પણ થોડાક અંશે શિકાર બન્યા હતા. તમને જાણીને નવાઈ લાગશે કે ત્યાંના શાસક અને અન્ય મુસ્લિમ ગ્રુપ દ્વારા સતત 30 વર્ષ સુધી ત્યાં મોહરમનાં તાજીયા નીકળવા દીધા નહોતા. મોદી સરકારે કલમ 370 હટાવ્યા બાદ ત્યાર કાયદોને વ્યવસ્થા સ્થાપિત કરી અને વર્ષ 2023 માં પહેલી વાર તાજીયા કાઢવાની પરમિશન મળી હતી. બોલો હવે શુ કહેવું 🧐

A pharmacist Vinod ji explains how a tablet needs to be taken. What is the significance of the line drawn in between? Can we break a tablet? What is entry coating? Awareness video. I hope this will be shared widely since this is important for people who take tablets everyday. I have added subtitles for everyone to understand. Pass on the word 🙏🙏🙏 #FI

Imagine feeding your kids a daily cocktail of caustic soda, detergent, urea, fertiliser, and palm oil, for five straight years. What short- and long-term harm would that cause to their bodies? One can only speculate. Residents of the Sabarkantha and Mehsana districts in Gujarat were effectively doing this by buying milk from a local company that had been making fake milk using these ingredients. Police have arrested Jitendra Patel, Sachin Makwana, Karan Parmar, and Ajaysinh Parmar. Another example of how Indians are among the most selfish people in the world and won’t mind killing others if it helps them make a profit. How can such a setup run with impunity for five long years without anyone realising? What are FSSAI and other food adulteration agencies doing?

#ખણખોદ છેલ્લા થોડા મહિનામાં 3 દારૂની મોટી મહેફિલ પકડાય જેમાં એક વ્યક્તિ કોમન છે... એ વ્યક્તિ છે પોલીસ ઇન્સ્પેક્ટર બી. ટી ગોહિલ બોપલ પોલીસ સ્ટેશનમાં રહેતા 2 મોટી દારૂની મહેફિલ ઝડપી ત્યારબાદ બોપલથી સાણંદ પોલીસ સ્ટેશન બદલી થઈ અને સાણંદમાં પણ મહેફિલ ઝડપી પાડી. 1) મે 2025માં બોપલના ક્લબ O7માં વિદેશી વિધાર્થીઓની દારૂની મહેફિલ 2) ઓક્ટોબર 2025માં શીલજમાં દારૂની મહેફિલ 3) ફેબ્રુઆરી 2026માં નિર્વાણ ગ્રીન્સમાં દારૂની મહેફિલ @AMD_RuralPolice @GujaratPolice @sanghaviharsh

How to counteract feelings of being overwhelmed: 1. Pinpoint the source. 2. Set boundaries around your time and workload. 3. Challenge your perfectionism. 4. Outsource or delegate. 5. Challenge your assumptions. s.hbr.org/3a9vz3f

Below is the picture of Vikas Gurjar, who works in an illegal tyre incinerating factory in Morena District of MP (260 kms from Delhi). First world sends their discarded tyres to India under the gab of recycling. A chunk go into these tyre burning factories where tyres are incinerated to extract carbon black. This releases carcinogens that causes cancer of bladder, lungs and skin. But a smooth commercial trade from port to such factories in hinterland operate in front of every one. Infact what this article does not cover is the burning of tyres in brick-kilns for its calorific value that release black carbon making India one of the biggest emitters of black carbon in the world. One reason AQI of 150 is sustained in whole of North India for the entire year is coz. of unabated existence of such commercial activities. Next time, people in Delhi-NCR worry about air-pollution, spare a thought on carbon soot released from here and scores of such plants that operate in UP, MP and Rajasthan. PS - Morena district (on the main Agra-Mumbai Highway) is also the ground zero for fake paneer and khoya, fake oil, illegal sand mining from Chambal river that is supplied to UP and Delhi "We are paying the first world to import pollution" as one researcher rightly puts it in this article. Marvellous story by @reporters_co @KashifKakvi

WHY NORWAY THINKS INDIANS ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN SNAKES Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen referred to Indians as worse than snakes. Do you know why Norwegian elites hate Indians so intensely? Read on. In an email dated December 25, 2015, and sent to Jeffrey Epstein, Rød-Larsen says, "Have you heard the saying: when you meet an Indian and a snake, kill the Indian first!" Norway (not Sweden's Nobel Committee) awards the Nobel Peace Prize. While all the other Nobels are awarded by Sweden, the peace prize decision was left to Norway by the dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel because Norway is a sister Scandinavian country. Norwegian elites are closely connected to the British elites. Plus, Norway is a key member of Western military alliances like NATO. So in the 1940s, Norway denied to Nobel Peace Prize to the "freedom fighter" Mohandas Gandhi so as not to embarrass Britain. Today, most Indians know Gandhi was a charlatan. His advocacy of absolute nonviolence disarmed Hindus and protected the British and Muslims. Had Indians not been swayed by Gandhi, an armed revolution (like Vietnam or Algeria) would have killed thousands of British colonialists. But Gandhi saved the foreign invaders from Indian anger. By that factor alone, he was a shoo-in for the Nobel Peace Prize. And yet Norway decided not to honour him. This legacy of awarding or not awarding the Nobel Peace Prize based on political expediency continues. Norway will never give it to a person who genuinely contributes to peace. But it'll award the prize to mass murderers like Henry Kissinger because by doing so it contributes to the strengthening of the West. Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after he ordered the strategic bombing of Vietnam which killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians in weeks. American napalm bombs were designed to burn people and Agent Orange was biological warfare aimed at turning Vietnam's forests into deserts. Kissinger accepted the prize "with humility." India is one of the last few polytheistic countries left on the planet. It is the only non Western country (after China) that has the potential to be the world's largest economy and a superpower. It is entirely natural for Westerners to worry about a non white country like India or China becoming No.1. But worrying about vs actively seeking to destroy a potential rival are two different things. Norway wants to achieve the latter. It wants to take down India and ensure the Western hegemony continues. In this backdrop, Rød-Larsen's remark reflects his -- and Norway's -- frustration with India's rise and independent stance.

A family in Malda: father, mother, and six children. The father abandoned the family for another woman. The mother and children, already poor and surviving on neighbours’ help, reached out to relatives in desperation. Rimpa Khatun and her CRPF constable husband, Tariq Anwar, their distant relatives, offered help on the condition that the eldest daughter, aged 10 years, be given to them as a house help. The helpless mother agreed, hoping her daughter would get proper food, a stable home, and education. Rimpa Khatun and Tariq Anwar brought the girl to Noida and subjected her to repeated verbal abuse and physical violence. They kicked and punched the child and smashed her head against a wall during an argument over household work. When the girl collapsed and started bleeding, they took her to a hospital and told the doctors that she had slipped. Medical examinations revealed fractured ribs, deep wounds to her head and chest, signs of prolonged starvation, and dangerously low haemoglobin levels of just 1.9. The poor child is on a ventilator, fighting for her life. What “Jai Hind” means in all this, I don’t know.