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Here is an archived version of the same story (from another website): https://archive.is/TE40H

Thanks for the suggestions. I will surely give them a try. The only recent Jazz musician that I have heard is Kamasi Washington.

My blog about a few treks in the Indian Himalayas http://overthehills.in/

Thanks for the reply. I tried to search for the passage but couldn't find it myslef.

I can't recall the exact lines but Thomas Pynchon's V. has an interesting variation of this story.

Apparently, IMD has released historical weather data last year and it is available here: https://www.imdpune.gov.in/Clim_Pred_LRF_New/Grided_Data_Dow... However, it is in some weir…

Actually, the record is correct but not for the city's main weather station. The temperature of 49C was recorded in two of the city's outer areas one of which was Najafgarh and oth…

I live in a suburb of Delhi and to be honest it is not just the occasional days that it stays that high. This year it has consistently been above 40C since late March. Summer has j…

Such are the vagaries of life.

Paywall removed: https://archive.fo/A9uba

According to the article: "When using mandibles, the ants are careful to avoid hurting each other." Not too much ouch then.

I have started writing a blog[1] about my treks in the Indian Himalayas. My pace of writing is really slow, so don't have too many articles in there yet. But have a couple of more …

I couldn't find the effectiveness of Covishield against Delta but for Covaxin the claimed efficacy is in the same ballpark at 65%. So this is not bad at all. Ref: https://www.hindu…

To be honest, it is much better overall. Didn't want to start a flame war here

As a counterpoint, I recently switched from an old iPhone SE to a Pixel 4a and the experience could not have been any better. I find the vanilla Android to be as snappy as iOS for …

Although I can't find a reference to an aircraft engine, Chrysler did have a variable displacement tech on its third gen Hemi engines that could turn off one bank of the V8. Ref: h…

I know at least one software that was complete - hasn'tbeen updated in a long time and I still useit. It's Winamp.

The trend for Facebook has been going down since 2013. That maybe because people are using the app more than they are using it on a browser.

To the untrained eye, there may not be any difference between the Slav and the Asian one. But if you look closely the Slav squat has the legs spread wider and toes pointing quite a…