Today is the birth anniversary of Prof GN Ramachandran, who founded the Molecular Biophysics Unit at IISc. His work on the collagen triple helix and the Ramachandran plot had a huge impact on structural biology. Photo courtesy: Manju Bansal

"கேடில் விழுச்செல்வம் கல்வி" & "யாதானும் நாடாமால் ஊராமால்"

Tokyo Tower on a rainy night

Walked to this nearby Israeli restaurant (from Dan Castellano’s list) and was greeted in Hindi. Took me a while to swap Japanese with Hindi in the 3rd lg heap. It was Anukiran from Darjeeling. I try to use their 1lg with people who’re away from home. He fed me too much dessert!

Q: Where’d Singaporeans like to hang out in Tokyo? A: Kaya-bacho 😬 PJ inspired on seeing a Singaporean with “Kaya Kookie” written in their t-shirt.

I was wondering just last night how the handsets (passenger control units) for in flight entertainment systems quietly vanished with the advent of touch screens.

I wish folks in my train coach who were watching movies and reels on their phone without headphones late into the night knew. I had to plead repeatedly. The contrast with the Japanese norm of phones always in manner (マナ, silent) mode in trains is stark.

An excellent video from Chris Broad about how some content creators make low quality videos that go viral because they appeal to anti-foreigner sentiment. The ragebait problem is real. youtube.com/watch?v=jEWhmQ…

Can autism develop post-birth? No. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that originates during early brain development, typically in utero or around birth. It does not develop later in life due to external events, such as infections, injuries, or

I used to think this guy was harmless, just someone with his own strong opinions. Not anymore. Zoho should fire him or he should quit voluntarily for the company to grow.

Visualization shows cross sectional view of South #Chennai's topography. Let's understand the geography of the city to develop a better understanding of the floods. Read full tweet :) 1. Chennai is an extremely flat land (50m rise over 15,000m run) in this section for example

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Maarten Kossmann J Pystynen ✽🫐 🗒☕⌘🚯🧦ᴤ that SOV thing — the natural state of humanity

A former architect at Databricks is running an AI training data generation company (objectways.com/about-us/) with folks in Karur, TN, India (a tier-3 town). The staff wear GoPro cameras and fold laundry to generate training data for humanoid robots. AI creates novel jobs too!