It is remarkable that the American spies built two Hubble-class telescopes and never used them, while spending money on Hubble was difficult.

Among the panthers, the Lion, the leopard and the jaguar form a clade to the exclusion of the rest that diverged recently (5-6 Mya). It is possible that they still retain some cross-species recognition

There is a NW IA language Pashayi which has a word wAlI for apple that cannot be etymologized in any Iranian pathway. Some have propose that it is a descendant of the now lost Indo-Aryan abalikA, the original word for apple. Of course, some I-Ir linguists could get hot as a coil

This reminded us to repost our old vignette on science education using the Skt Medium manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2016/05/21/sva…

For an alternative more semantic nomenclature in Skt see a set of sUtra-s we composed: manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2019/02/03/li%…

marUnmAdo .antar-bahiH shoNitamayaH | abhyantareNa yuddhena marUnmAdasya+ojo navo navo bhavati |

The discerning can connect this docu on the "second Empire" of the Brits with the actions of Apastiya. One will immediately see why the pichChilaka doesn't want to talk about him anymore. youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylv…

Political notes: Fragments: sUtra-s of a new arthashAstra: manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/fra… A political roundup: Aug 2025: manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/a-p…

duShTa-jarilaputra interviewed a guy recently. The interview provides a rather interesting window into not just the corruption/criminality of the mahAmlechCha special forces but also hints at the kinds of things they might be doing worldwide.

While today spread across the Archipelago and the Pacific Island world, it seems the proto-Austronesian originated in the middle Yangtze River region in the Neolithic. Their journey from there all the way to New Zealand and Hawai is rather is one of the most peculiar in human

A sentence in 3 Germanic languages: Frisian: De sinne skynt moai oer it griene lân. English: The sun shines beautifully over the green land. German: Die Sonne scheint schön über das grüne Land. It is notable that the ortholog of the Frisian word for beautiful, 'moai', is

Rather unique indeed: These could have been used as a type of "sun dial" given the central li~nga-like element with vivasvant.

A kArShApaNa of king sundara pANDya mAravarman with viShNu's (shrIra~NgasvAmin?) feet.

mahiShamardinI depicted in a more archaic iconography from 15-1600s malla Nepal. Iconography alone is not always the best indicator of age.

sadAshiva from the khmer empire

lapis lazuli viShNu feet with sha~Nkha, chakra, gadA and padma from gandhAra; gupta age

viShNu-pAda persistence of the motif from the region: A marble exemplar from Swabi in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of the shAhIya age