An Exchange(Sophisticated Trolling)

K: So, how was it then? P: Will knowing about it alter your thoughts? K: No! P: Do you understand the second law of thermodynamics? K: No!(In a quizzical expression) P: It states that the entropy of a system or universe always increases. Entropy is the degree of randomness in a system, more random a…

Everything Everywhere All at Once

This will be a quick and a short note. I haven't written down what did I just watch for a long time until yesterday when I watched Everything everywhere all at once. I wrote down disjointed thoughts on what I just witnessed. There is multiverse hopping, there is a comedy, there is intense action, there…

Fram

A few days ago, we were having a discussion on the infrastructure projects in the country, development, use of English as primary language etc. One of the comments was why we use English so much in the daily vernacular, isn't it still catering to the colonial mindset unable to break free from the past and…

Mathematics and The Starry Night

The Cypress tree, the sleepy village, the luminescent sky, and the rolling hills- that’s how we see Van Gogh’s The Starry Night. It was Van Gogh’s view from his east-facing bedroom on the first floor of Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where he admitted himself after the famous psychotic episode of self-mutilating his ear. Source:…

So, you want to find a partner, wife or husband?

A few months ago, still reeling under the lockdown, a single friend of mine was telling me about Covid 19, sexism at work, her bureaucratic seniors, single-hood, and how her mother is emotionally blackmailing her to get settled. As a good friend, I listened to her woes, gave her a few pointers on how to…

Thermodynamics and Free Will

Tomorrow a few things will happen such as the sun will rise in the east, water will boil at 100 degrees, a ball thrown up in the air by a child will come back to earth again. Everything in the world is made of 12 fundamental particles and they interact in 4 predictable ways. **Laplace…

Dating With Keloids

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My Sudoku day

Alzheimer's run in my family. I am very scared, I don't want to end up with one. I read in many articles that if you train your brain, the risk of getting this condition can be reduced.   http://www.helpguide.org/elder/alzheimers_prevention_slowing_down_treatment.htm I am good at numbers, and when I was in college I used to do this SuDoku,…

Perestrokia

PerestrokiaBetween May 2011 and June 2012 I used to send daily mailers to my office team.I used to ask one puzzle, riddle, mathematics question which they had to answer by the end of the day. Those who used to answer had their names in the list that I used to send with the answer of…