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The Great White Clouds Today, and Cauliflowers.

On By Neel (Abhranil Das)In Uncategorized7 Comments

It’s awfully bright today. The sun is too bright to look at, and when it falls on your eyes it hurts, but in an amazing happy way. The sunlight is glistening off bright white cumulus clouds, sparkling pure diamond white wherever it falls. You look up, there’s cumulus clouds everywhere like this great migrating herd …

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On By Neel (Abhranil Das)In Science, Views and Observations1 Comment

We were asked a simple question in class: ‘what causes tides?’ ‘Class’ here means a mixture of fourth years of an integrated Masters in various sciences, and also some integrated PhD students. All of us were already the equivalent of bachelors. We were blank. A little worse than blank, actually. Some tried to give answers …

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