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Check out the full insightful and eloquent speech by Grant Sanderson at Harvey Mudd here: youtube.com/watch?v=W3I3kAg2…
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Mars' Olympus Mons, the tallest known volcano in the solar system, has such a gradual slope that someone standing at the base couldn't see the summit because it's beyond the horizon.
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31 Jan 2022
For mathematically ambitious students in India age 14-18: All expenses covered for 6 weeks of exciting mathematics at PROMYS at Boston U in U.S. thanks to @nicknash01 @phalgun @MorphOrg Avi & Sandra Nash. Apply by March 15.
29 Jan 2022
Talented secondary students in India excited by mathematics can apply by March 15 for a Mehta Fellowship to PROMYS, a 6-week immersion at Boston University, July 3–Aug 13, 2022. All costs covered incl. travel to USA. promys.org/mehta-fellowships…
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I recently started a Syntopical Book Club with friends - here is how it works: linkedin.com/pulse/introduci…
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Key difference between most startups and the successful ones - doing a lot with little - 70% of the top 40 most successful internet software companies barely spent $100 million compared to the billions start-ups aspire to spend, sa…lnkd.in/gNz6eWH lnkd.in/gHAZUds
Amazing achievement by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanulle Charpentier for their revolutionary CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing discovery - first time two women scientists have been awarded the chemistry Nobel without a male collaborator.
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22 Aug 2020
An appreciation I wrote about Ray Bradbury when he died: theguardian.com/books/2012/j…
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Possible scenario: It's 2025. The epidemic is over, but most big tech cos are still significantly remote, because powerful employees moved to Jackson Hole and don't want to move back. A startup emerges that's intensely not-remote, and beats one of the incumbents by moving faster.
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If Andromeda were brighter, this is how big it would be in our night sky.
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Here is a snapshot comparison I made of #COVID19 virus growth by state today vs. 2 months ago - you can see which states made poor decisions on too early Phase 2 reopening (& it is not fully correlated to protests, MN is in the green for example). #covid #coronavirus
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Fantastic news of my alma mater @MIT & other top universities rejecting expensive paywall research journals where much of the actual research is publicly funded. Viva la academia's open research revolution news.mit.edu/2020/guided-by-… #openaccess #openresearch #openinnovation
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Beautiful poem read by Ray Bradbury in 1971 while on panel with Carl Sagan, Arthur C Clarke and Bruce Murray youtube.com/watch?v=fmNMt0AD…
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“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty.”
― Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14 astronaut)
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12 Feb 2020
Train your mind to tackle unfamiliar challenges! Rigorous student discovery of fundamental mathematical truths & unknowns. Apply by March 1st for six weeks in PROMYS India’s supportive maths community @AshokaUniv. Full scholarships for all students! promys-india.org
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Incredibly excited to take The Ramanujan Project we started in 2015 to the next level, with the launch of @promysIndia with @AshokaUniv ! Apply by March 1st - All expense paid, pre-university summer immersion for top #Math math students in #India . bit.ly/36YMR0F
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25 Jan 2020
“Since the program is so intensive and so well structured, one feels the heavenly bliss of reasoning at every step…PROMYS prepares people for life, not just number theory" Nilava Metya, PROMYS 2018 & 2019. Apply to PROMYS India 2020 @AshokaUniv by March 1 promys-india.org
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Need a New Year's reading list? I compiled a master spreadsheet list of every book that the best minds in tech (Gates, Jobs, Thiel, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Dorsey), & others have recommended along with books recommendations from some of…lnkd.in/f84Et9X lnkd.in/fHRHvJD
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Incredibly proud to serve on the ASEAN Board of Room to Read who is hosting Michelle Obama in Vietnam today for a visit to our Girls’ Education Program, through a broader partnership formed with the @Obama Foundation. Wonderful to…lnkd.in/fGX8cue lnkd.in/fte2e9Y
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