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A study of 1.1 million people found those born with a broken myostatin gene. They had:
- 5-8% more muscle
- less fat
- stronger grip
- no heart issues
- fertility was fine too
I believe the future of weight loss is GLP-1s + myostatin inhibitors.
Tipping culture in India is dying with the rise of UPI payments, hope we can do something about this to support hard working service employees.
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A London hospital just built a rooftop garden where its sickest patients can lie outside in their beds, still on full life support, surrounded by plants and open sky. For intensive care, the idea is brand new. The instinct behind it is about 4,000 years old.
King's College Hospital opened the garden on 29 May 2026, the first of its kind in the UK. It sits on the roof above the 60-bed critical care unit, with room for six beds. Each bed pulls up next to a weatherproof cabinet that supplies power, data, and medical gases, so a patient can stay hooked up to their machines while breathing fresh air. It cost 2 million pounds, paid for by a hospital charity. The designer described the goal as a hospital ward set down in a meadow.
Doctors in ancient Egypt sent distressed patients to walk through palace gardens, around 2000 BC. The kings of Persia built huge walled gardens around 550 BC, planted with shade trees and running water. Our word "paradise" comes straight from the old Persian word for one of those walled gardens.
Then medicine moved indoors. As drugs and machines took over in the 1800s, the gardens mostly disappeared from hospitals. Florence Nightingale pushed back. In her 1859 book on nursing, she called fresh air the first rule of caring for the sick and direct sunlight the second. She noticed her patients in east-facing rooms got better faster, and that being able to look out a window beat staring at a blank wall. Flowers and bright colour, she wrote, were actual means of recovery.
She was working from what she saw, not hard data. In 1984, a researcher named Roger Ulrich tested it in the journal Science. He pulled ten years of records from a Pennsylvania hospital and compared gallbladder patients in rooms facing a small clump of trees against matched patients in identical rooms facing a brick wall. The patients who could see trees went home almost a full day sooner. They needed far fewer doses of strong painkillers. And nurses wrote about a third as many notes about them struggling, just over one per patient versus nearly four. That one paper helped get window views written into hospital building rules.
Now King's is turning its roof into a live study, tracking how sunlight and greenery cut down the delirium, the confusion and hallucinations that can take hold during long stays in intensive care. A 2 million pound ward, full of custom-built equipment, made to deliver something a doctor on the Nile was already prescribing four thousand years ago.
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India trains the engineer.
America files the patents.
Gurtej Sandhu was raised in Amritsar and trained at IIT Delhi.
He now holds 1,299 US patents at Micron, Edison topped out at 1,093.
Sandhu is the 7th most prolific inventor in American history.
His titanium nitride deposition work is why every DRAM cell in your phone and every GPU training a foundation model actually holds charge.
Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix own 95% of global DRAM.
None of them are Indian.
We export the inventor.
We import the chip.
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Best thing I read with my morning coffee today.
Late Shri Manohar Parrikar Ji once narrated his ordeal.
"I'm from Parra, a village in Goa, so we're called 'Parrikars.' My village is famous for its watermelons. When I was a child, the farmers there held a 'Watermelon Eating Contest' in May, after the harvest. All the children were invited and asked to eat as many watermelons as they wanted.
Many years later, I went to IIT Mumbai to study engineering. Then I returned to my village after 6.5 years. I went to the market to look for watermelons. But they were gone. The ones I found were very small.
I went to meet the farmer who used to hold the 'Watermelon Eating Contest.' Now his son had taken his place. He still held the contest, but there was a difference. When the old farmer offered us watermelons to eat, he would ask us to spit the seeds into a bowl. We were forbidden to chew the seeds. He was collecting seeds for the next crop.
We were, in effect, unpaid child laborers.
He would keep his best watermelons for the competition, using them as the best. He obtained good seeds, which produced even bigger watermelons the next year. When his son arrived, he thought the larger ones would fetch a higher price in the market, so he started selling the larger ones and keeping the smaller ones for competition. The next year, the watermelons grew smaller, and the next even smaller. A watermelon generation lasts one year.
In seven years, Parra's best watermelons were wiped out. In humans, a generation changes every 25 years. In 200 years, we will realize the mistakes we were making in educating our children.
Selecting good seeds, that is, talent, is a huge task in itself. Due to irrelevant ideas and useless things, our good watermelons will go to market, leaving us with useless, inferior seeds.
We must think about this in today's context.
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I would like to appeal to all Members of Parliament…
Please reflect upon your conscience, remembering the women in your own families.
The legislation to ensure women’s reservation in legislative bodies is a significant opportunity to do justice to women of our nation.
Please do not deprive our Nari Shakti of new opportunities.
If this amendment is passed unanimously, it will further empower the women of our country and strengthen our democracy.
Let us come together today to create history.
Let us ensure that the women of India, who are half of the nation’s population, receive their rightful due.
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While you slept last night, completely still in your bed, our galaxy moved millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, yet unimaginably far from where you were the night before.
The Milky Way is not drifting quietly through the universe. It is racing through space at around 600 kilometers per second, carrying billions of stars, planets, and everything on them along for the ride.
It is a good reminder that even when life feels motionless, you are always in motion.
Stay connected,
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Taught my nani how to use chatGPT voice chat today. She was surprised by what technology has evolved to become. Showed her some basic use cases and I cannot wait to check in with her a week later and see the sort of questions she has been asking AI.