a video shared by the physicist Prof Ed Witten Prof V. Balakrishnan at IIT Madras explaining Why is Quantum Mechanics So Confusing? [I am in awe of how he traverses, sentence after sentences, idea after idea - without a pause but also unhurriedly. What a great teacher.🙏]

Yes! “more unstructured free play for children, no smartphones before high school, no social media before age sixteen, and no phones in schools” - Jonathan Haidt

Elections are coming and the heat is literally on. Such high temperatures are to be expected whilst an El Nino is still in place. Sharing what I wrote 6 years ago on how heat (and humid heat) affects us, and what can be done. firstpost.com/living/heat-wa…

Bengaluru water crisis: Sometimes, good politics and environment stewardship don’t make bedfellows. That can change only when you, the voter, decides it must.

Heat Wave conditions very likely at isolated pockets of North Interior #Karnataka on 8th April, 2024. #WeatherUpdate #HeatWave MoES GoI DD News NDMA India | राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण 🇮🇳 All India Radio News

Blessed be.

Thanks Ulka Kelkar Once we understand how temporally skewed India’s rainfall is, the need for storage becomes apparent. The data comes from a lecture by the Director of the National Institute of Hydrology in September 2019.

The tropical Pacific Ocean has returned to ENSO neutral conditions. Neither El Niño nor La Niña are active. The long-range forecast is the best guidance for future rainfall and temperature. Details: media.bom.gov.au/releases/1221/…

#Dubai got more than a year’s worth of rain in 24 hours. Global warming, cloud seeding and a storm system that has wreaked havoc in Oman have all been blamed. Lives disrupted, billions lost. And still, climate adaptation remains a neglected stepchild in global climate action.

Severe Heat Wave conditions very likely in isolated pockets of Saurashtra & Kutch on 17th, Odisha on 18th & 19th, and Gangetic West Bengal during 19th-21st April, 2024. #HeatwaveAlert #SevereHeatWave #Odisha #WestBengal #Saurashtra MoES GoI All India Radio News DD News NDMA India | राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण 🇮🇳

Heat Wave conditions very likely in isolated pockets of Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam, Rayalaseema and Telangana during 17th-19th April, 2024. #HeatwaveAlert #AndhraPradesh #Rayalaseema #Telangana MoES GoI All India Radio News DD News NDMA India | राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण 🇮🇳

Heat Wave conditions very likely in isolated pockets of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & Karaikal on 18th & 19th April, 2024. #HeatwaveAlert #TamilNadu #Puducherry #Karaikal MoES GoI All India Radio News DD News NDMA India | राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण 🇮🇳

BREAKING: The death toll from the Mai Mahiu flash floods hits 71, Nakuru Governor Susan Kihika tells CNN. This could be the worst devastation since the rains began in Kenya last month

We have lost the Most Iconic Baobab in Malindi, the tree that hosted Mekatilili is no more, it has been carried by the flooding River Sabaki🥲. According to the elders this a bad sign. Scientifically the floods aren’t child's play. OneMillionTrees4Kilifi Eric Latiff

The Baobab was rare, majestic and I was wonder struck. The ubiquity of Prosopis made me underestimate its power. They came from foreign lands and while one adapted, the other left the country changed.

Voices : Climate is changing but politicians won’t till voters put it on the agenda timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/c…

#HTWknd | Your burning trash has much in common with the Vietnam war, says Mridula Ramesh In this month's #TradeOffs, see how dioxins - the thing that made Agent Orange so deadly - are being released in your neighbourhood today. hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-…

#HTWknd | When it comes to trash, one way or another, we will pay, says Mridula Ramesh As Delhi’s latest tragedy shows, waste and water woes are joined at the hip. The way out hinges on intent, money, and on all of us getting involved. hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-…

Connecting the drops: Mridula Ramesh writes on India, China and the mighty Brahmaputra hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-…