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The Berry phase of Kancha Gachibowli
There’s a concept in quantum mechanics, and also in parts of classical mechanics, called the Berry phase. Say you’re walking around a mountain. You start off along a path and follow it all the way until you’re back to the … Continue reading
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Tagged adiabatic process, afforestation, Berry phase, BR Gavai, deforestation, entropy, environment, ferromagnetism, Kancha Gachibowli, magnetic hysteresis, Supreme Court of India, Telangana
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Anthropocene
It’s an epoch whose centre of attention de facto is the human even as the attention makes us more conscious of the other multitudes with which we share this universe. Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropocene epoch, carbon footprint, cloud storage, environment, genetics, gut bacteria
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Smaller dinos were harder to wipe out, and they’re still around
The asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs 66 million years ago didn’t get them all. Some of them survive to this day in the form of birds, and they may have made it because they got smaller. For about 170 million … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, dinosaurs, ecological diversity, environment, evolution, evolutionary morphology
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