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The rise of the psychopath oligarchy
There are certain things in (geo)politics that are largely unsurprising to us because we had seen their seeds over a decade or two ago. In part, we were able to infer several things correctly in advance due to a few … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Politics, Scientific ramblings
Tagged Anglosphere, biological conflict, biology, eusociality, Geopolitics, hymenopterans, insects, mlechCha, psychopaths
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The zombie obeys: a note on host manipulation by parasites and its ecological consequences
In 1858-59, as AR Wallace, one of the founders of the modern evolutionary theory, was exploring the Sulawesi Islands, he collected an ant, Polyrachis merops, that he sent over to England. Years later, the naturalist W Fawcett studying these ants … Continue reading
Posted in Scientific ramblings
Tagged Abrahamism, biochemistry, biological conflict, biological warfare, biology, disease, fungi, memetic virus, parasites, virus, viruses
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Human retroviruses, sociology of science, and biographical ruminations
We learnt via a recent obituary that the French researcher Luc Montagnier died a month or so ago after living for nearly 90 years. He along with his compatriot and erstwhile colleagues, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Jean-Claude Chermann discovered HIV-1. Subsequently, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Life, Scientific ramblings
Tagged AIDS, biography, biological conflict, biological patterns, biologists, biology, HIV, virus, viruses
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On the passing of E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson, one of the great biologists of the age, has fallen to the noose of the king, the black son of Vivasvān. He lived a long, productive, and eventful life, just 8 years shy of a century. He was … Continue reading
Posted in History, Life, Politics, Scientific ramblings
Tagged ants, bees, biology, eusociality, history of science, hymenopterans, isopterans, social parasitism, society, sociobiology, sociology, Superorganism, Watson, Wilson
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The birth defects of Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Pāṇḍu and related matters
This note has its origin in a conversation with Sharada. We originally intended to incorporate the core of it into one of our usual fantastical stories. However, following a second conversation with her, we decided that it might be best … Continue reading
Pandemic days: bālabodhana
As the pandemic grinds to a close or at least to a pause in some parts of the world, there is a certain fear from new mutants threaten that threaten break current the status quo. The strain that arose in … Continue reading
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Tagged biochemistry, biology, disease, pandemic, science, virus, viruses
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Prakīrṇaviṣayāḥ: Life, brains, warfare and society
1 On big brains An occidentally conditioned person remarked that “we were making bad use of the great brains we have evolved. Instead of using it for human betterment, we were expending it on killing each other with sophisticated weapons.” … Continue reading
Ruminations on meteorites, organics and water
In our times the Christian Anglo-Saxons were famous for their “war on drugs”. However, in the 1800s, when they lorded over India, they were famous as global drug dealers. On the morning of August 25, 1865 CE around 9:00 AM, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Scientific ramblings
Tagged astronomy, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, Earth, geology, Life, meteorite, meteoroid, meteors, origins
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Pandemic days-4: viruses get new hosts
That we have come to be in these pandemic days evokes some wonderment or even disbelief among laypeople. The general thinking of a large section of the populace is that this event is something completely unexpected or out of the … Continue reading
1859 CE and beyond: Some reflections
The yuga between 1800 CE and 1900 CE saw a remarkable change in our understanding of the world at many levels. It is not that some of these ideas did not exist long before that time but they came together … Continue reading
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Tagged biologists, biology, entropy, evolution, gravity, physics, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics
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The ghost in the tattered Gattermann
Vidrum had dropped by to see Somakhya and Lootika when they had just started their household together. They had reconstituted a fairly elaborate lab in the biggest room of their home. They had also completely set up their fire room, … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, Life, Scientific ramblings
Tagged biochemistry, biology, fiction, Gatterman, ghosts, religion, Story
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Some words on mathematical truth, scientific conviction and the sociology of science
Sometime in the bronze age more than one group of humans, including our own Aryan ancestors, discovered that the squares of the two legs of a right triangle sum up to the square of the hypotenuse. This is the famed … Continue reading
The remarkable behavior of a map displaying derived from a simple model for a biological conflict
One of the simplest yet profound mathematical models for biological growth emerged sometime in the middle of the 1800s due to the work of Verhulst. It describes population growth thus: let be the population of the organism at time . … Continue reading
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Tagged biological conflict, biology, chaos, dynamics, ellipse, geometry, mathematical entity, mathematics, polygons, trigonometry
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A note on tales of fratricide, warfare, cannibalism and incest
The Osman conqueror of Constantinople, Mehmet-II, bothered by the civil wars his predecessors had to fight to take the throne, institutionalized the system of fratricide. In this system, the rival brothers of the sultan, who took the throne, were all … Continue reading
Posted in History, Scientific ramblings
Tagged ants, biological warfare, biology, combat, developmental biology, evolution, fratricide, hymenopterans, males, sex-ratio, wasps
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Some biological analogies for certain sociopolitical issues
In Hindu society we often see certain relatively straightforward sociopolitical issues endlessly debated. A person with relatively commonplace IQ should in principle easily arrive a correct apprehension of these issues by applying correct analogy and/or logic. However, due to emotionalism … Continue reading
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Tagged analogical thinking, biology, Indo-Aryan, language, relgion, Sanskrit
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Some elementary lessons from iterative fractal maps
The famous Sierpinski gasket was one of the first fractals we wrote code for when we got access to a computer. It impressed us enormously that an intricate object with self-similarity over all scales could be generated by a rather … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, developmental biology, evo-devo, evolution, fractal, fractals, geometry, mathematics, recreational geometry, recursion, science, temple
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Syllable, number and rules in the ideal realm
This note is neither meant to be complete exposition of this matter nor a complete view of all what we have realized in this regard. Nor can it be completely understood by those who are not insiders of the tradition. … Continue reading
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Tagged art, biology, curlicue, fractal, fractals, geometry, Hindu, mathematical entity, mathematics, pi, Plato, Platonic ideals, proteins, religion, science
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Big science and grant-driven science and how discoveries are made
When we were young some we had made some scientific discoveries that we described to the elders around us. They were unable to make any sense of it but had an intuitive feel that there might be something to our … Continue reading
Macranthropy and the saMbandha-s between microcosm and macrocosm
May we first invoke indra that he might drive away the obstructions to the study: vajraM yash chakre suhanAya dasyave hirImasho hirImAn | arutahanur adbhutaM na rajaH || The thunderbolt, which he of golden mane and golden frame bore down … Continue reading
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