Entangled Life Recently I started reading Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake and one thing that stuck with me is the Carpenter Ants and their relation with a family of fungi Ophiocordyceps. Now the world of fungi and how they affect our lives is amazing. As a kid I remember there was a sensational story of few ladies dying after eating some wild mushrooms that turned out to be poisonous. The more you read about the world around that is not…
Zero: The Backdrop Zero is a unique number. Technically every number is unique but Zero as a number and concept was considered dangerous by many for millenniums and we will delve little more looking at its history and its rise in application in various technology. Many would have heard that Mathematics is called the Queen of Science and Number Theory is Queen of Mathematics. This quote is attributed to gifted Mathematician called Gauss. Our very own Srinivasan Ramanujan explored number…
The Body – A Guide for the occupants is written by Bill Bryson and published in 2020. This is second book of Bryson that I had a chance to read. The other one was A Walk in the woods which was about the celebrated Appalachian trail. I have few others already on my TBR list. Here is a post that I wrote sometime back on a similar topic. I think everyone would agree that human body after millions of years…