Quick notes: Women in combat | Fat storage...

• Should Women Fight Wars? Of all the countries in the world, a pacific India has paid a huge price for its misplaced chivalry and karuna, and must never forget this lesson. It would be unwise to follow the US blindly considering the crumbling family system there. In no case, should the standards have to be lowered.



• New US-India Closeness Angers Pakistan: Is the US finally waking up to Pak double game?



• Himalaya Café: Dalai Lama backs bid to save Edinburgh café he inspired. . . A global café chain to rally the Tibetan cause? Worth supporting



• An alternative to eat-less-move-more: The calories-in, calories-out concept is 'tragically flawed,' new research suggests. Fat storage is all about our hormonal response to certain macronutrients. When high glycemic index foods are consumed, the body responds via two hormones. It increases insulin (a hormone used to direct sugar into the cells) and suppresses glucagon (a hormone used to release stored glucose when levels are too low). The combination of the two set up the stage for fat storage by telling our fat cells to store calories. This is due to a rapid rise and subsequent decline in blood sugar that occurs shortly after consuming the high GI food.



• Semiconductor firms can’t find enough workers: 80 percent of chip makers say that it's become hard to find workers. The problem is worse in North America and Europe.



• Vijay Kumar Sundaresan: The man getting back our treasures. "The joke is, if you break into a house illegally you will get 6 years' jail but in Tamil Nadu if you break into a temple and commit theft you will get 3 years' imprisonment.. In China there is capital punishment for heritage theft. Here we treat them like it's a house-breaking theft".



• Dalit-Sikh? Theoretically, Sikhism has been emphatically anti-caste. Yet, caste made inroads, surreptitiously and gradually. The upper caste status of Jatt is primarily a function of their land ownership profile, which is almost absolute in the state of Punjab.



• Zeer Pot: Non-electrical Refrigerator). Evaporative refrigerator - no moving parts, no electricity .




• Shohei Ohtani: The wonder kid of baseball




• Combat is still a man's game:

Female soldiers are only 2% of all combat soldiers, but they are on average 13% of those who file a complaint. In other words, women file suit on average six times more than men. Remember – this is when women are not serving in the core units of the army pic.twitter.com/OHQrHH0qNs

— Spatel (@Rjrasva) August 11, 2018

Quick notes: Baloch fix | Amazon legal 'fees'...

• Could the US Support Balochistan Independence? As Pakistan not only turns away from the US but, through its Taliban proxies and China, tries to humiliate Washington, a new generation of American strategists, policymakers, and intelligence professionals may reconsider the redlines that have governed bilateral ties since the Truman administration.. A future American administration may try a “Kuwait” solution with Balochistan.



• Amazon lawyers accused of bribery: Amazon spent Rs 8,546 cr in legal expenses to 'remain' in India. Legal fees funneled into bribing govt officials.



• Blow to pharma MNCs: India won't buy Pfizer, Moderna vaccines amid local output.



• Throw away Chinese phones: Lithuania finds built-in censorship tools and security flaws.



• China accounts for 40% of 6G patent filings: In a survey covering 20,000 patent applications for nine core 6G technologies, China topped the list with 40.3% of filings, followed by the U.S. with 35.2%.



• China's military has an Achilles' heel: Low troop morale and inexperience



• Cultural burning: When Western settlers forcibly removed Native American tribes from their land and banned their religious ceremonies, cultural burning largely disappeared. "There was actually a bounty on California Indian people. The governor had announced a war of extermination". Now, Goode and other tribal leaders have been reaching out to ecologists, researchers and fire agencies about the importance of Indigenous knowledge.. To manage wildfire, California looks to what tribes have known all along.



• Keezhadi: Retracing ancient Indian heritage via Tamil Nadu. The findings are seen as archaeological corroboration of events or places mentioned in Sangam literature; in fact, carbon dating of the six artefacts from the site is seen as evidence that the Sangam Era began three centuries earlier than thought, making Keeladi contemporaneous with the Gangetic Plains civilisation in north India.



• Newly minted socialist:

Quick notes: Plural India | Lucid Air...

• I speak Kannada, and I’m no less Indian: I was a proud Hindi-speaking Indian then, though Kannada was my mother tongue! After all, we had to speak Hindi to be called Indian, in the Hindi nation, didn’t we? “Hindi hain hum?”
  
  It was only after I got to understand India and the idea of India that I realised that I don’t need Hindi to prove my Indianness. It’s absolutely okay for a Kannadiga to not know Hindi. It doesn’t make him a lesser Indian. This needs to be echoed time and again. Only then can we build a plural India.
  
  When I looked around, it dawned on me gradually that my mother tongue, Kannada, was being pushed to a corner in its own abode. It’s high time we implemented a two-language education policy in Karnataka to save our children from the excessive burden of learning Hindi. That would be the first right step in the right direction. Let’s hope no Kannada child in Karnataka, in the future, spends his childhood in a Hindi environment and starts looking down on his own language!



• China increasingly rejects English: Education authorities in Shanghai forbade local elementary schools to hold final exams on the English language. . . . . . . So unlike Macaulayists here



• EV range leader: Lucid Air 520-mile range ousts Tesla from top spot.
  
  China leaping ahead in EVs: Xpeng P5 electric sedan starts around $25,000, leads in driver-assistance tech, aims for Europe
  
  Elon Musk praises Chinese automakers: "I have a great deal of respect for the many Chinese automakers for driving these (EV) technologies".



• Manavendra Singh Shekhawat: Traditional water wisdom transforms barren land.




• Side-effects: Boys more at risk from Pfizer jab side-effect than Covid



• Imbalance: In one year, Himachal Pradesh loses 18.52% of snow cover



• 5000 saplings in 48 hours: Meet the cyclist brothers working to make a greener TN a reality



• Life at 50C: How to cool a megacity

Quick notes: STEM leader | Savings drain...

• China becoming the world’s STEM leader: China is in the midst of an extraordinary, mostly successful, effort to improve its universities and research institutions.
  
  Meanwhile, India is turning its STEM graduates into (mostly woke) Humanities and Social Sciences people... And the US is prioritizing diversity over merit.



• IIT-Madras sweeps rankings: IIT-Madras has managed to retain its number one position in the overall educational institutes and engineering categories. The institute has bagged the second position in the newly introduced ‘research’ category.



• Savings drain: Top banker tells wealthy Indians to load up on foreign stocks. . . . . . . . . . . . After brain drain here comes rupee drain.



• Self-reliance: China's SMIC to build $9B GigaFab.



• Relentless: China building 30 airports in Tibet and Xinjiang to boost military transport



• Indian aviation at the cusp: 'Today, if we are ready to move forward in developing a next-generation fighter, it is because the Tejas program gave us a core critical mass.'



• RoP: Afghanistan's last Jew leaves after Taliban takeover



• iVision AMBY: BMW unveils electric bicycle with 300KM (186 miles) of range




• Thread: Some of the best Physics and Mathematics books that you must read (with free download links)

Some of the best Physics and Mathematics books that you must read (with free download links)

These books are freely available online and can be downloaded in pdf format.

A Thread 👇

— sunny (@thePiggsBoson) September 7, 2021

Quick notes: Panjshir resistance | Fourth dose...

• Pakistan's northern front: The Taliban uses modern drones with bombs, it is obvious that drones arrived today with Pakstan special forces.

#BREAKING🔴
Pakistani drones starts bombarding #Panjshir
Panjshir being bombed by Pakistan Air Force drones using smart bombs.

In the recent battle of Panjshir, Pakistani special forces familiar with Panjshir lands,&have a map of the area,attacked the strongholds from the air.

— NATIONAL RESISTANCE FRONT🛡️ (@NRFmojahed) September 5, 2021




• Biden told Ghani to lie about Afghanistan: Biden called President Ashraf Ghani to help him "project a different picture" and to stop the narrative from looking bad for his presidency.




• Taliban to rely on Chinese funds: “There are rich copper mines in the country, which, thanks to the Chinese, can be put back into operation and modernised. In addition, China is our pass to markets all over the world.”



• The Mystery of Narayana Murthy's Retail Biz: So prolific has been the growth of Cloudtail's dominance on the Amazon platform that it faces accusations of unfair trade practices, and of crowding out small retailers



• N+1: Israel’s virus czar calls to get ready for eventual 4th vaccine dose
  
  80% immunity lost in 6 months after Pfizer shot



• Why You Should Stop Using Antibacterial Soap: A 2008 survey found triclosan in the urine of 75% of people tested. Antibacterial soaps acts as endocrine disruptors and have the potential to create antibiotic-resistant bacteria.



• "Americans have lost the prestige of a global leader": A power vacuum that Russia and China are already filling

Quick notes: America’s friend | Equipment losses...

• America's friend: “We are facing a full-scale invasion, composed of Taliban, full Pakistani planning and logistical support, and at least 10-15,000 international terrorists, predominantly Pakistanis thrown into this,” Ghani told Biden over phone.
  
  As the two presidents spoke, Taliban insurgents controlled about half of Afghanistan's district centers, indicating a rapidly deteriorating security situation. Biden instead focused on 'perception'.
  
  May be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.



• Oliver North: China will reverse-engineer weapons left in Afghanistan.. Heavy equipment transporters have been used to transport two M1 tanks from Afghanistan into Pakistan. “They’re going to be heading to the port where they will be loaded aboard a ship and taken to communist China for exploitation.”
  
  Nikki Haley: China trying to take over Bagram base
  
  Disaster At Hand: Documenting Afghan military equipment losses



• PUBG back in new avatar: Indian govt banned PUBG Mobile game along with more than 100 Chinese apps in the country.
  
  'China considers' online games as electronic drugs, so Modi's India is the target market for these companies
  
  China's crackdown on its tech companies cost investors $3 trillion.



• Mahina Khanum: Odissi dance inside Pattachitra painting




• Walled garden: South Korea breaks up Apple and Google app store payment monopolies



• How much is your data worth? So much that Google is paying Apple $15 billion to be the default search engine on Apple devices.

How much is your data worth? So much that Google is paying Apple $15 billion to be the default search engine in the iPhone and other Apple devices.

Google is paying $10/year per device, to get you to use a 'free' search engine.

— @mikko (@mikko) August 26, 2021





Take a night off, anti-Facebook people. #DeleteChrome - it’s no longer a trusted user agent. They’ve sided with adtech and surveillance over their users. https://t.co/5wlR014ksm

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) June 25, 2021




• Counter-UAVs: BEL to provide Indian Navy with locally developed system to counter micro drones.