Sanjay Kumar

interesting to see this first of its kind tabulation.physics has simply moved out of pure sciences teaching institutions.only one is in calcutta university.research must walk back into teaching institutions across the country as both complement each other.@EduMinOfIndia

@Math_files (n+1)^2-n^2=2n+1=(n+1)+n

The sum of two consecutive integers is equal to the difference of their squares. For example: 13 + 14 = 27 and 14² - 13² = 27.

@GuptaPragnya fascinating.its like a hindi movie.😊

A Russian student who disappeared in the Himalayas in 2021 during a solo trek was discovered four years later by National Geographic journalists as the guardian of a high-altitude Buddhist monastery in Nepal. 24-year-old Alina Vetrova left Annapurna Base Camp and never returned. A rescue operation lasted three weeks, but an avalanche left her presumed dead. Her parents held a symbolic funeral in Novosibirsk. In early 2025, however, a crew filming a documentary about lost monasteries discovered a young European-looking woman dressed in monastic robes and speaking fluent Tibetan and Nepali in a remote mountain temple at an altitude of 4,800 meters. It turns out that Alina, who had lost consciousness from altitude sickness, was found by hermit monks, who cared for her for several months with herbal infusions. When she regained consciousness, the passes were already covered in snow - the descent was impossible until summer. During these months, she began to study Tibetan medicine and meditation. According to the abbot, Alina had developed a rare gift - she could accurately recognize medicinal mountain herbs by their aroma, which the monks took as a sign of a reborn soul. She was given the name Tenzin Dolma and began training to succeed the monastery's apothecary, a position not held by anyone for 40 years. Alina is now in charge of a collection of over 600 species of high-altitude plants. She wears a traditional burgundy robe, her head is shaved, and on her wrists she wears ritual yak bone bracelets, which she is allowed to wear as a sign of status. A dot of saffron paste is applied to her forehead daily during the morning ceremony. When journalists ask her if she wants to return, Alina replies in Russian with a strong accent: “I’m already home. The mountains do not let out those they choose.” Her parents have flown to Kathmandu. The meeting is scheduled for the end of the month. (Via Shiv Kar Courtesy Rajiv Tyagi wall from Facebook)

@avidseries and the elevation of the practice spaces.

49 of the fastest 50 marathoners of all time had East African ancestry. Yes, it is in the genes.

reading lying by @BestofSamHarris where he writes ,”lying is the royal road to chaos” and is an infringement ,”on the freedom of those we care about”. “lying is almost by definition,a refusal to cooperate with others. it condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. it is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. to lie is to recoil from relationship”.@EduMinOfIndia

वैशाख बुद्ध पूर्णिमा की अशेष शुभकामनाएँ ।आज ही के दिन गौतम बुद्ध का जन्म लुम्बिनी ,नेपाल में हुआ , बोध गया में ज्ञान की प्राप्ति (प्रबोधन ) हुई और कुशीनगर में परनिर्वाण की प्राप्ति।एक ही दिवस पर तीनों की संभावना की प्रायिकता (प्रोबबिलिटी) एक ईश्वरीय संयोग है।उनके द्वारा दिया गया “मध्य मार्ग “का दर्शन आज भी उतना ही प्रासंगिक है।truth never lies on the fringes.@EduMinOfIndia

School Management Committee (SMC) Guidelines 2026 will be launched on 6th May 2026, marking a significant step towards strengthening grassroot school governance. SMCs serve as an important platform for parents, teachers and community members to collaborate in supporting schools through a shared responsibility and collective action. These efforts align with the vision of #NEP2020, which emphasises participatory, inclusive and community-driven approaches to education, ensuring every child benefits from a more responsive and supportive learning environment. #DoSEL #SchoolEducation #SMCGuidelines2026

one quotation attributed to two different but two of the greatest minds in the world. “when your education limits your imagination,it’s called indoctrination.” #nep2020 @EduMinOfIndia

“मूल जानना बड़ा कठिन है नदियों का,वीरों का, धनुष छोड़ और गोत्र क्या होता रण धीरों का ? पातें है सम्मान तपोबल से भूतल पर शूर, जाति-जाति का शोर मचाते केवल कायर,क्रूर ।” रामधारी सिंह दिनकर,रश्मिरथी @EduMinOfIndia

brings back memories of another iconic moment when roger bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes on may 6, 1954, clocking 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. it was considered humanly impossible to do so.pushing the envelope all the time is what defines us.@EduMinOfIndia

श्रीनिवास रामानुजन् इयंगर(ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ ராமானுஜன் ஐயங்கார்) (22/10/1887 – 26/4/1920)को उनके पुण्य तिथि पर नमन।कहते हैं कि उन्हें “अनंत” का बोध था।कैम्ब्रिज के गणितज्ञ जी एच हार्डी ने उनके मृत्युलेख में लिखा 👇।@EduMinOfIndia

#वीरकुंवरसिंह की जयंती पर उनको नमन।उनका अदम्य साहस,वीरता और देश के प्रथम स्वतंत्रता संग्राम में अविस्मरणीय भूमिका हमारे इतिहास एवं सामूहिक मानस का अभिन्न हिस्सा है।🙏🏻🙏🏾🙏🏿@EduMinOfIndia

@TansuYegen it’s all about getting the angle of the tractor right.

Many drivers thought the truck could not get out, but the driver DISAGREED...

महर्षि धोंडो केशव कर्वे (1858-1962) को उनके जन्म जयंती पर नमन।@EduMinOfIndia

On 17th April 2026, Department of School Education & Literacy (DoSEL) has been felicitated for securing the second position overall in the category Best Performing Ministries/Departments – Centre (more than 50k employees) at the Sadhana Saptah 2026 felicitation ceremony. The award was conferred by Hon’ble Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, @DrJitendraSingh, recognising consistent efforts towards strengthening capacity building and institutional excellence. The award was received by Dr. Amarpreet Duggal, Joint Secretary, DoSEL, on behalf of the Department, marking a significant acknowledgement of its commitment to advancing governance through structured learning and development initiatives. #SadhanaSaptah2026 #GoodGovernance #SchoolEducation #DoSEL

@DoctorLemma both at the same time.insignificant on a cosmic scale and precious for its realisation.

For nine years, an astronomer begged NASA to turn a spacecraft around and take a single photograph. When they finally agreed, the planet it photographed was smaller than a pixel. The astronomer was Carl Sagan. The spacecraft was Voyager 1, launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn. By 1981, it had done its job and was heading for the edge of the solar system at 38,000 miles per hour. Sagan wanted it to look back once. He knew the photo would have almost no scientific value. Earth from that distance would be a speck. That was exactly the point. NASA worried. The Sun was still close enough to fry Voyager’s camera sensor if they pointed it the wrong way. Other missions kept getting priority. The years ticked by. Sagan kept pushing. They finally said yes. On 14 February 1990, roughly 6 billion kilometres from home, Voyager 1 turned its camera around and took 60 photos of the solar system. One of them captured Earth as a tiny dot caught in a stray beam of scattered sunlight. That single image became known as the Pale Blue Dot. The entire planet, every person who has ever lived, every war, every love story, every sunrise, was 0.12 pixels wide. Thirty-four minutes later, Voyager 1 powered off its cameras forever to save energy for the long journey ahead. It has never taken another picture. Sagan later wrote a book about that single pixel and called it Pale Blue Dot. He died two years after it was published. Voyager 1 is still going. It’s now over 24 billion kilometres away, the furthest human-made object in existence, still sending back faint signals from interstellar space. Does that dot make you feel insignificant, or does it make everything on it feel more precious?

@OECDEduSkills it’s an old study of 2022.@SchleicherOECD

How creative are students in your country? Creativity can be a powerful driver for learning, & is important in today's job market as routine skills risk automation. The OECD’s PISA measures the creative thinking skills of 15-year-olds around the world: bit.ly/45dxRvv

@iam_elias1 how does it compare to human who knew the person being argued to? human to human -arguer human don’t know each other. human to human-the arguer human knows the other. ai to human -ai doesn’t know the human. ai to human-ai knows the human.

Two major scientific journals just published the most comprehensive studies ever done on AI persuasion. The findings were published simultaneously in Nature and Science. AI can change your political opinions. More effectively than another human can. And when it knows personal information about you, it wins debates against you 64% of the time. Here is exactly what the researchers did. They matched 900 people in the US with either another human or GPT-4 to debate contested political issues: fossil fuel bans, healthcare policy, immigration. Some opponents were given personal demographic data about their debate partner. Some were not. When GPT-4 had access to basic information about you — your age, gender, education, political affiliation — it tailored its arguments and outperformed human debaters 64.4% of the time. That is an 81% increase in the odds of changing your mind compared to a human opponent. When it had no personal information, it performed at the same level as humans. The conclusion: AI does not need to be smarter than you. It just needs to know a little about you. The Cornell and UK AI Security Institute study went further — testing 19 different AI models across 42,357 people and 707 political issues. Three countries. Three elections: the 2024 US presidential race, the 2025 Canadian federal election, and the 2025 Polish presidential election. They found chatbots could shift opposition voters by 10 percentage points or more. They also found something darker: the techniques that made AI most persuasive also made it systematically less factually accurate. The more an AI was tuned to persuade, the more likely it was to say things that weren't true. And yet people changed their minds anyway. There is one more finding nobody is talking about. When participants suspected they were debating an AI, they were more likely to agree with it. Not less. More. Because they assumed AI was more informed and less biased than a person. That assumption made them easier to persuade. Humans are building a technology that is more convincing than we are, and then trusting it more because it isn't human. Source: Nature Human Behaviour

@AIHighlight on a lighter note ,it brings back a few lines of a popular hindi song.हम वो हैं जो अपना घर जला कर तमाशा देखते हैं।(we burn up our home to watch the spectacle).

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left. Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops. If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time. The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy. They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand. The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker. The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.