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3 Jan

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Few comments since this topic is as perennial as the AIT issue among internet H -- of course you may not like it, so don't @ me. The domesticated Bos was a central animal for the subsistence of the Indo-European pastoralists on the steppe. It was also a major domesticate for the

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the pre-IE Indian peoples like the Harappans and the neolithic Ash Mound culture of southern India (i.e. the bUti-palli/halli-s; early Dravidians?). What is clear is that these pre-IE & circum-IE entry peoples of India consumed the flesh of cattle. However, it is like the female

animal (henceforth cow) was also valued for milk->curds/cheese(?) among both the Harappan and Ash Mound peoples. The former probably also used them as draught animals. The situation was similar with the IEans on the steppe with their version of Bos cattle playing a major role in

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3 Jan

bAlabodhana: a version of this molecule (more precisely with an additional -OH bonded to the C2' atom has been a key technological advance in the mRNA vaccines being rolled out. The relevant part is that hexagonal ring (the base) called 1N-methylpseudouracil

The mRNA vaccines are the triumph a still hazy principle in biology termed "social RNA". The reason for is that many organisms have an inbuilt immune action directed against social RNA for it could be a pathogenic RNA. The key idea in these vaccines is the use of the above base

systematically instead of its usual base uracil. This N-methyl pseudouridine does 2 things: makes the vaccine RNA less capable of triggering the body's anti-RNA immunity &inflammatory response & simultaneous makes it a better mRNA i.e. better for protein production. If as

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manasataramgini

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3 Jan

1 observes that in India or many nations of the occident there is a fear of certain facts, i.e. quite reliable inferences based on reproducible observations, being "weaponized". The general reaction is to deny those facts by claiming them to be false or the exact opposite. This

At the same time people are quite comfortable believing relatively complex facts that they cannot easily verify like the earth going around the sun rather than the other way. However, they will put on airs deep understanding to attempt denial of the facts they deem weaponized

The Soviet Union did the same by force and several occidental nations are doing the same now: such denial can only be maintained by such. In contrast while the late Singaporean leader was called many names he decided to play along with with uncomfortable facts. The H really need

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manasataramgini

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1 Jan

There is a certain mental tendency that exists across groups to accept a patently contra-factual framework as reality. Once that is accepted the individuals who have done so work within that framework & to them the factual reality or pratyakSha appears delusional. To such people

trying show the facts doesn't work because they are already inside their new pseudo-reality. One may say what is the problem? Could their reality not be equally valid even as Euclidean, hyperbolic and elliptical geometry? No, we are not talking about axiomatic systems here but

the process of deductions from logic. The old H had presented two important principles: 1) tR^itIyaprakArAbhAvaM cha sUchayati | ity eka-pramANa-vyApAraH : in the west it is called the law of the excluded middle and lAghava-nyAya, i.e. the principle of parsimony. When you reject

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11 Dec 20

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1336663915451871232

I wonder if the best way to get people learn programming (and mathematics) is by showing people how it can help in something they are really interested in. Of course I'm from an older generation & in my youth few people had access to computers. There were a subset of guys who

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wanted to become engineers as it paid well. They used to learn programming in some local sheds where it used to be taught mostly without computers. They would write out code on paper with pencil and on the last day of their course get once chance to enter into real computers

to see if it ran. I found that utter bizarre & unappealing. Hence, rather than following their course I bided my time carrying out biological/astronomical/mathematical/chemical experiments with a hand calculator.But once I got access to a computer I knew exactly what I wanted so

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9 Dec 20

I have been wanting to do an ongoing thread. To an Arya the entire shruti is inspiring but there are particular sUkta-s and mantra-s that especially so (other students of the shruti might create their own parallel thread of this kind if interested). It is hard to say this is the

most inspiring sUkta. However, to me there is some set which might be called "among the most inspiring" or "the essence of religion". From that set I'll place as first sUkta: RV 2.12: yo jAta eva prathamo manasvAn... of gR^itsamada shaunahotra: It is replete with sublime mantras

It is also found as AV vulgate 20.34. Within it one of the most inspiring R^ik-s are:
dyAvA chid asmai pR^ithivI namete
shuShmAch chid asya parvatA bhayante |
yaH somapA nichito vajrabAhur
yo vajrahastaH sa janAsa indraH ||

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