rainy week in toronto. remembering some sanskrit ways of describing the rain 1/n

goṣ-pada-pūraṃ vṛṣṭo devaḥ
it rained enough to fill the cow hoof prints the standard way of saying "it rains" is
devo varṣati
the god [of rain] makes it rain 2/n

37 nobel laureates. 6 days. 1 little island.

a photo diary from the 73rd nobel laureate meeting at Lindau👇 lindau is a tiny, gorgeous island on the bodensee in Germany. STEM nobel laureates and some young scientists have been meeting here since 1951

Think yourself a Zen person? Visit one of these manuscript libraries to unlock unknown levels of blinding rage 🧵from experience. https://t.co/63gmcgzty1

https://twitter.com/sridatta_a/status/1690633108784025600

Clerk asks for letter in triplicate from HoD attested by gazetted officer. You bring it back next day, but library unofficially shuts down on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

As a school boy, I encountered this question that made an impression on the way I thought about science:

You step out of the house during an eclipse, and see little rings beamed onto the pavement by the trees. Find the density of the sun.

[solution follows]

https://twitter.com/KS1729/status/1210180656644399105

The density of the sun! Surely there's not enough information given? I spent two days thinking about it, before I looked at the solution.

A Scribe's Apology

"Wise readers—do not swear angrily at me dropping a letter, or not dotting an i in my haste. My head bows prostrate, hovering at your lotus-feet like a bee. Bear with me."

archive.org/details/Epigra… Another one that's quite popular:
यादृशं पुस्तकं दृष्टं तादृशं लिखितं मया ।
यदि शुद्धम् अशुद्धं वा मम दोषो न दीयते ॥