Mile Sur Mera Tumhara: Why India’s most beloved TV moment failed when it tried again Piyush Pandey’s death has brought back memories of his most enduring contribution to Indian pop culture.

“And once the stars are everywhere, they stop glowing altogether.”

Loved this piece!

www.newslaundry.com/2025/10/27/m...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

All the “use AI to do [this]” ads on YouTube are so stupid that I can’t even tell if some human actually vetted them.

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Call for Applications: HOME Alliance Media Fellowship Program - HOME Alliance

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Children starve in Gaza hospital as Israel's blockade cuts off food and medical supplies In greater numbers than ever, children hollowed up by hunger are overwhelming the Patient's Friends Hospital, the main emergency center for malnourished kids in northern Gaza

Will Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli government, those who voted it to power, and those “liberal” governments around the world who let it do this — be ever held accountable?

Will the Germans tell Zionist Jews the hypocrites they are?

The world won’t forget.

www.telegraphindia.com/world/childr...

What can we call no serious disease but constant sickness?

Adulting.

Depression Guilt, and the Years You Can’t Get Back YouTube video by Let's Talk Psychology Podcast

I *love* the Let’s Talk Psychology Podcast. The latest is one of my most favourite episodes.

youtu.be/FLh4VBteyVQ

I am sick and tired of being sick… and tired.

The Universe Is More Complex Than We Thought I investigate, as a science journalist, the claims and counter-claims of what dark energy is up to.

This story has been sitting with me since it was decommissioned by a physics publication on April 21, 2025, the filing date. So here it goes.

🎬 Presenting the first science journalistic story on my own blog.

🔗 debduttapaul.com/2025/06/15/t...

The confidence with which ChatGPT hallucinates! Oh my.

Ooops, I am addicted to Notion.

While the kings go to war, the grasses die.

রাজায় রাজায় যুদ্ধ হয়, উলুখাগড়ার প্রাণ যায়।

There is nothing to be proud of going to war.

I'm tired. It's ruthless out there. I'm just so tired.

I am practically hopeful of my dreams — so they shall live on.

I *will* make them a reality.

As the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

Dear world, here I come!

Shoutout to everyone writing a book and silently wondering if it's any good. You're doing better than you think!

#Booksky #Writer #Author

First up, an interview with Ravinder Kaur whose sociological work at IIT Delhi has directly shaped at least one national policy and should inspire our other STEM institutes to take similar cold, hard looks at themselves 👀 #HumanIITies thelifeofscience.com/2025/03/04/r...

The tempered radicalism of Ravinder Kaur An interview with Ravinder Kaur, IIT Delhi Emerita Professor of Sociology

”Constantly, I’ve been trying to do things at IIT Delhi without rejecting the institution as such.”
LabHopping’s month-long special series #HumanIITies kicks off with this interview of sociologist Ravinder Kaur by Aashima Dogra. Do read.
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Descriptions of fishes available on Freshtohome are epic!

— বাঙালি

#PoorJoke : We are astronomers. Both theoretical and experimental physicists look down on us. And we look up to every body else, including the stars.

Nope, I don't "shed light on __" any more. It's a cliche, well overused.

www.aip.org/history-prog...

Going through this oral interview just reinforced my understanding why DEI needs to keep happening.

Highly overused, meaningless phrase in professional context: "Please feel free to..." Absolutely dislike it.

ChatGPT won’t sign me because it thinks I am a robot!

'Invent your own life’s meaning' by Bill Watterson — Neil Pasricha Delivered by Bill Watterson , author of Calvin and Hobbes , at Kenyon College in 1990

I disagree, Mr. Watterson, I find life’s meaning in your wisdom!

www.neil.blog/full-speech-...

In the spirit of friendly academic shit posting...

(Or because we lack imagination?)

We picked another IBM experiment to benchmark our small-angle Pauli propagation alg.

This time: arxiv.org/abs/2404.08053

@quantummanuel.bsky.social's plot below is for TFI on 127 qubits in a heavy hex topology

To use AI tools, we need to verify as humans! 😮