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Whattay twisted Artist. Wonder what he’d have done in a heavy metal band.
Posted on May 12, 2021 by Pradeep
How to get your mind blown away?
Posted on April 30, 2021 by Pradeep
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Y’all realize this song is called the ‘Power of Love’, right?
Posted on April 20, 2021 by Pradeep
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Read this in David Attenborough’s voice
Posted on April 3, 2021 by Pradeep
UConn researchers recently documented in Nature Scientific Reports a gory and fascinating relationship between periodical cicadas and a fungus that infects them, hijacks their behavior, and causes a scene straight out of a zombie movie.
“It’s a fun story for us, not for the cicadas,” says UConn ecology and evolutionary biology researcher and adjunct faculty member John Cooley.
Though researchers have known about the fungus for around 100 years, Cooley and his colleagues David Marshall, a postdoc, and lab technician Kathy Hill have published new findings about the infection.
The story starts with the cicadas’ emergence, when around 2 to 5 percent are infected with spores of a fungus called Massospora cicadina. Though the fungus infects both male and female cicadas, the researchers discovered that early in the emergence, the infection — at this point called a Stage I infection — causes curious behavioral changes in males where, in addition to their normal mating behaviors, they will exhibit wing flicking that is typically seen only in female cicadas.
The infected male cicadas put on a ruse, much like the Sirens of Greek myths; they flick their wings like a female, and lure in healthy unsuspecting males, who get close enough to be exposed to the spores, leading to their doom. The diseased males will also attempt to copulate with the uninfected females, exposing them to even more spores….
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Also Read – Cicadas are back
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We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for.
Posted on September 9, 2017 by Pradeep
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Water you talking about one in a melon?
Posted on August 17, 2017 by Pradeep
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I cannot get over how wonderful and melodious this is.
Posted on August 16, 2017 by Pradeep
A Fascinating Cover of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Played With a Single Note.
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Why the delay – aren’t electrical engineers supposed to face the least resistance?
Posted on August 16, 2017 by Pradeep
On Feb. 23, 2016, Tarun Mehta walked on the stage at a tech conference in Bengaluru, spoke for less than five minutes, and walked off. He reappeared quickly, though, wearing a black helmet, riding a black and white scooter. As the rock music toned down, Mehta dismounted, and with half a smile and a wave of the hand introduced his ride, “Guys, S340.”
The moment had been three years in the making, since Mehta and Swapnil Jain quit their jobs in 2013 and set up Ather Energy to try and build a smart electric scooter in India, for India. The S340 has a top speed of 75 kilometres per hour, a touchscreen dashboard that’ll eventually run on Android and sync with smartphones, a battery that charges faster than most mobile phones, and a range of over 65 kilometres. So far, the gamble had paid off. Since 2014, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) graduates managed to convince New York’s Tiger Global and the founders of Flipkart, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, to pour more than $12 million into their untested venture. And after long hours on the drawing board, agonising over aesthetics and engineering, and testing out multiple prototypes, Ather’s first product, the S340, had finally been unveiled.
On stage, Mehta spoke for another eight-odd minutes, describing Ather’s design philosophy, outlining the hardware that powered it and fleshing out the software, which he hoped would offer an edge to the S340 in India’s burgeoning two-wheeler market—the largest in the world. He finished with a promise to let prospective customers try out the scooter at an experience centre in Bengaluru within three months. The company also announced that the S340 would be available by the end of 2016.
Eighteen months on, the S340 is yet to hit Indian roads—and Mehta, the 27-year-old bespectacled CEO of Ather, makes no bones about the epic miscalculation by one of the country’s most exciting electric vehicle startups. {via}
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Bridge over troubled waters
Posted on August 14, 2017 by Pradeep
What is this wizardry you speak of? Everyone knows you can’t put a glowing lamp inside a clock!
Posted on August 12, 2017 by Pradeep
The architecture of Buchwald’s industrial creation fuses his distinctive design principles with his vivid imagination. The steel-and-brass base of the clock, measuring 1.2 meters, displays insect-like limbs supporting the central body while steel brackets enclose the Nixie tubes like arms gripping time; flexible, tentacle-like tubing “nourishing” the Nixie tubes with energy and information is at the core of the composition.
Farny manufactures Nixie Machine II’s modern, vacuum Nixie tubes in his workshop in the Czech Republic. Each tube features a steampunk-like inner structure awash with honeycomb grids and tungsten wires smelted with glass lighting up filigree digits encapsulated in blown glass cylinders. {Read on}
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