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Anirban
@bhalomanush
Scientist | author | traveler. My latest book - When the Drugs Don’t Work: amazon.in/When-Drugs-Don…
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    Anirban
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    Aug 21, 2021
    Indian scientist Felix Bast discovers a new species of algae off the coast of the Andaman archipelago. And it’s already threatened because of habitat destruction. It belongs to the genus “Acetabularia” and so it is single-celled. Yup, each umbrella is one ginormous cell.
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    @bhalomanush
    Mar 31, 2024
    Better than any philosophy book. Pure genius.
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    Oct 2, 2023
    “We first sent to a Nature journal, and within 24 h, they rejected it as an incremental contribution. I started learning English only at university, so I had to look up the meaning of the word incremental!” Katalin Karikó, in 2021, on her paper that led to a Nobel Prize today.
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    Jul 26, 2024
    after spending 30 minutes in the airport bookstore I have decided my next book will be called “Stop overthinking the subtle art of Chanakya’s ikigai to maximize your startup story in rising Bharat”
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    Oct 3, 2021
    I hate to break it to you, but the coding languages that your primary school children are learning from e-institutions so they can get a head start over their peers will be obsolete soon. When they’re 30, they will still need math, logic, and critical thinking skills.
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    Aug 11, 2021
    Everyone who signs emails with "warm regards" is responsible for 92.5% of the climate crisis.
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    Anirban
    @bhalomanush
    Jul 26, 2022
    No other country does breakfast like India. Don’t come at me with your sausage and baked beans. This is not a matter of debate.
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    Anirban
    @bhalomanush
    May 7, 2021
    It is sinking in that I will not be able to go home anytime soon. And along with everything else in the world, it makes me indescribably sad. A few years as I was leaving I wrote this.
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    Anirban
    @bhalomanush
    Mar 31, 2020
    I honestly don’t know a single adult who sleeps well and through the night right now.
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    Anirban
    @bhalomanush
    Mar 23, 2020
    Yes, the coronavirus is spreading fast, but this is the fastest I’ve seen a new genome get sequenced, a diagnostic test get ready, promising drugs go into trial, a vaccine go into trial, a model animal get set up, and a serological test get ready in my life. So yes, positives!
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    Anirban
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    Mar 28, 2020
    Phenomenal news. Abbott has a diagnostic test unit small enough to be in a doctor’s office and fast enough to give results in a few minutes. First of its kind.
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    Anirban
    @bhalomanush
    Apr 27, 2021
    50% positivity rate and a 10 times increase in reported infections. What a manmade disaster in West Bengal!
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    Anirban
    @bhalomanush
    May 4, 2021
    Hey @the_hindu, you admit that you don’t know what strain is in circulation but your headline has already declared one 15 times more deadly. On what basis, since no scientific preprint or paper is quoted?
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    Anirban
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    May 14, 2021
    A day after India increases interval to 12-16 weeks between doses of AZ/Covishield, the UK reduces the gap for over 50s from 12 weeks to 8 weeks in response to B.1.617 (the variant identified in India).