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Week 10 - Coronavirus

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Link to week 9 Friday San and I go to Daily Dump in Indiranagar and improve the composting solution - San was using 2 clay pots - now she has gone high tech with a custom solution - with microbes and coco peat and all. .  When I was at Daily Dump I was checking some statistics. A family of 4 can potentially save 300 Kgs from going to landfill a year. Imagine if all homes start composting.  The army of sauces - keeps life interesting for these kids. Saturday Achu makes Chicken Marhaba Sunday evening I make Tacos with Baked Beans. The hard shells costed 150Rs. On chess.com I try to figure this 4 player chess game. Couldn’t. Over the weekend was playing blitz games. Trick is not to watch your points - and be ok to lose. Then it is lot of fun. I was not looking at the time and was losing because of time outs - even though I had captured the opponents queen. Next week will try to increase my speed.  Sunday morning I go running around the layout. Planning to run 30 minutes dail...

We all are in Greta Thunberg’s Universe

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“  It is the most extraordinary, alluring and thought-provoking of all the ways in which quantum mechanics has been interpreted. In its most familiar guise, the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) suggests that we live in a near-infinity of universes, all superimposed in the same physical space but mutually isolated and evolving independently. In many of these universes there exist replicas of you and me, all but indistinguishable yet leading other lives.” -  Quantum Magazine Back in August 2018, one high school girl in Sweden, Greta Thunberg, stopped going to school on Fridays, and instead sat in front of the Swedish parliament with a placard which said “ Skolstrejk för klimatet ” - School Strike for climate. In 2019 - she travels to US, on a boat - because Flights are the environmentally most inefficient of all transports, and travels around the country - in a Tesla - lent by Arnold  Schwarzenegger  nevertheless - speaking in Colleges and climate forums and irritating...