Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 114 The small comets are giant, loosely packed “snowballs” with some kind of thin shell, made perhaps of carbon, that holds them together as they travel through interstellar space. But as they approach the electrically charged Earth, the electrostatic stress on these objects causes them to break up at an altitude of … Read more
Number of words: 2,322 It all began back in 1981. On the third day of August a Delta rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying a pair of NASA satellites, both known as Dynamics Explorer, into elliptical orbits. One of these satellites circles the poles of Earth at an altitude ranging from 350 … Read more
Number of words: 2,260 Last week, Facebook announced something interesting. It rolled out a new product called ‘Shops’. Aimed at small businesses, it helps retailers upload their product catalogue on Facebook or Instagram, and will help users purchase it directly from these platforms. Facebook has launched this in partnership with a bunch of other players, … Read more
Number of words: 397 Sarcastic facts based on solid logic:- 1. The past tense of fit is fat. 2. An infinite number of $1 bills and $20 bills are worth the same. 3. If your parachute doesn’t deploy, you have the rest of the life to fix it. 4. Average human lifespan is 70 years … Read more
Number of words: 315 A Collection of superb, hard hitting, humorous comments… *”In my many years I have come to a conclusion, … that one useless man is a shame, two [useless men] is a law firm and three or more [useless men] is a government.”* ~John Adams *”If you don’t read the newspaper you … Read more
Number of words: 4,204 As the 2020s dawn, it is hard to find any member of the U.S. foreign policy establishment who does not believe that the United States is in decline and that the waning of its influence has accelerated under a president who seems to revel in attacking U.S. allies and enemies alike. … Read more
Number of words: 8,915 For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap it in two. Now that the rope has snapped, do we tie its ends back together, or shall we undo its dangling braids … Read more
Number of words: 3,512 Before I published The Innovator’s Dilemma, I got a call from Andrew Grove, then the chairman of Intel. He had read one of my early papers about disruptive technology, and he asked if I could talk to his direct reports and explain my research and what it implied for Intel. Excited, … Read more
Number of words: 1,642 When 61 people met for a choir practice in a church in Mount Vernon, Washington, on 10 March, everything seemed normal. For 2.5 hours the chorists sang, snacked on cookies and oranges, and sang some more. But one of them had been suffering for 3 days from what felt like a … Read more
Number of words: 793 As the end of the second world war neared, mass production of the newly developed antibiotic penicillin enabled life-saving treatment of bacterial infections in wounded soldiers. Since then, penicillin and many other antibiotics have successfully treated a wide variety of bacterial infections. But antibiotics don’t work against viruses; antivirals do. Since … Read more
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