A severe solar storm, which happens once in approximately 100 years, could catastrophically impact various human technologies on Earth, and plunge the world into an “internet apocalypse,” a new study says. The Earth’s magnetic field protects its inhabitants from solar… Read More ›
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Why are hyperlinks blue?
The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ever notice that many links, specifically hyperlinks, are blue? When a co-worker… Read More ›
WFH coming to an end
One of the joys of the past 18 months of working from home was the chance, every single day, to swing open the fridge and come up with new, dynamic and exciting ideas for lunch. SAID ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, EVER…. Read More ›
“iWatch Will Prove Apple As A Luxury Brand” (2014)
Two recent developments suggest that Apple will use and extend its brand power as the primary engine of adoption for its forthcoming iWatch. The first is the launch of the first smartwatches with the new Android Wear OS highlighted at… Read More ›
The Shadowy Business of International Education
Like just about everyone in Bibipur, the Singhs are farmers. The family owns a small plot—twelve acres of wheat and rice with a few cows and buffalo. On warm days as a child, Kushandeep would run off with his friends… Read More ›
When tough trees meet hot fires
A storm swept over a region baking under record heat and dryness. Instead of rain, though, the storm sent thousands of lightning strikes, and by the time the sun came up, hundreds of wildfires crackled in the hills. They would… Read More ›
Clockology. Why?
I decided to play around a bit with Clockology and I must say that it has turned into a decent app with lots of content available and a stable experience offered. Some of the watch faces are very impressive and… Read More ›
The Apple Watch is SO FAR ahead of the competition
I am surprised that the Apple Watch only has 52% market share at this point. I shouldn’t be, however, because the price is relatively high and I suspect that a lot of the 28.2% sector is made up of much… Read More ›
Can America’s Fastest Supercomputer Defeat Covid for Good?
Head is a drug hunter. A computational chemist by training, Head uses complex computer simulations to search for molecules that can gum up the gears of a virus hell-bent on infecting human cells. She focuses on therapeutics—the things doctors rely… Read More ›
It’s hard trying to be rational
And yet modern life would be impossible without those rational systems; we must improve them, not reject them. We have no choice but to wrestle with rationality—an ideal that, the sociologist Max Weber wrote, “contains within itself a world of… Read More ›
