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Valentine’s Day

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To love you is to taste champagneTo love you is kisses in the rainTo love you is to feel no restrainTo love you is to lose the painTo love you is to see your faceTo love you is to dress you in laceTo love you is to serve an aceTo love you is to gain faithTo love you is a world without endTo love you is not to pretendTo love you is sweet flowers to tendTo love you is to know a friendTo love you is a hot afternoonTo love you is the light of the moonTo love you is … Continue reading Valentine’s Day

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QuEra Computing secured $230m funding

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Boston based neutral-atom quantum computing specialist, QuEra Computing has secured over $230million in new funding from Google, SoftBank Vison Fund2, and Valor Equity Partners, QVT Family Office and Safar Partners. QuEra’s neutral-atom technology based on the patented research of its scientific founders Professors Mikhail Lukin, Professor of Physics at Harvard, Markus Greiner Professor of Physics at Harvard, and Vladan Vuletic, Professor of Physics at MT. QuEra developed by Aquila, a 256-qubit quantum computer, one of the most powerful publicly available quantum machines, which leverages individual neutral atoms controlled by lasers, enabling high scalability, reconfigurability and reduced error rates, by programmable … Continue reading QuEra Computing secured $230m funding

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Iran’s Rise and fall

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The 1979 Islamic Revolution triggered a cold war between Iran and the United States – former fast friends. Despite the US’s relentless efforts at containment, Iran has risen as a formidable power in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Gaza. Its newfound status not only frustrates the US but has swiftly become a thorn in the side of Israel and Saudi Arabia. How did Iran rise so rapidly and as it faces ever increasing pressure at home and abroad, can it hold onto its power?  Iran is weaker now than it has been since the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, in … Continue reading Iran’s Rise and fall

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England lose to India 3-0

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Third One-day International, Ahmedabad. India 356 (50 ov) Gill 112 off 102, Shreyas 78 off 64, Rashid 4-64, Wood 2-45. England 214 ( 34.2ov) Banton 38 off 41, Atkinson 38 off 19, Axar 2-22, Harshit 2-31. India won by 142 runs. England tour of India ended with another heavy defeat losing 3-0 one-day International series loss, as they were bowled out for 214 in 34.2overs to suffer a 142-run defeat in Ahmedabad. Tom Banton  scored 38, but there poor shots from a number of batters including Phil Salt and Ben Duckett who put on 60 for the opening wicket. Poor spells … Continue reading England lose to India 3-0

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DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

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In a World of White people, The Science of Racism uses clear scientific research to expose what we know about racism, exactly how we know it, and what we can do about it. Since 2000s, recruiters have suffered from unusual occupational hazard. Having received numerous applications for jobs they have advertised, they have consistently been hiring people who do not exist. Ghost applications with identical CVs, the only difference between the two is that one applicant is Black while the other is white. They fall victims of their own prejudices, as well as to what is by now, a well … Continue reading DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

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Rohit’s Century powers India win the ODI series

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Second One-day International, Cuttack England 304 (49.5ov) Root 69 off 72, Duckett 65 off 56, Jadeja 3-35 India 308-6 (44.3ov) Rohit 119  off 90,  Shubman Gill 60 off 52, Overton 2-27. India won by four wickets lead series 2-0 England were beaten again in the second one-day International in Cuttack as India clinched the series with a match to spare despite England scoring 304 runs. England’s struggle on tour continued as Indian Captain Rohit Sharma hit a majestic 119 from 90 balls to ensure India win the second ODI match by scoring 308-6  off 44.3 overs. England have now lost six of seven … Continue reading Rohit’s Century powers India win the ODI series

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Episodic and digressive bitter history

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BBC journalist and film maker, Nick Thorpe makes an evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine, in a “dark ring” or “magnificent horseshoe” some 1500km long, with its threatened landscape, people, history and talks woodland management in the ancient forests of northern Romania, with an expert nicknamed Ion Barbu; “Beardy John” A landscape of great spruce and beech forests, grass meadows, and ancient villages, it’s people contend daily with the elements- as well as Europe’s last large carnivores. But this fragile ecosystem is now under threat, from climate change and illegal logging. The Silvi-culturist … Continue reading Episodic and digressive bitter history

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England lose first ODI

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First one-day international, Nagpur England 248 ao (47.4ov) Buttler 52, Bethell 51, Jadeja 3-26, Harshit 3-53. India 251-6 (38.4ov) Gill 87, Iyer 59, Mahmood 2-47 India won by four wickets, lead T20 series against India, Jos Buttler’s England  did not make use of a good start with the bat to be bowled out for 248. Opener Phil Salt who scored 26 from one Harshit Rana over, scoring 43 from 26 balls only to run-out which triggered a collapse of three wickets for two runs in eight balls from 71-0. Captain Buttler mustered 52 before miscuing, leaving Jacob Bethell to bat with … Continue reading England lose first ODI

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Everyday heroism of one community

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Robert Seethaler’s characters are unassuming, resilient and witness to a world that seems to rage especially around them.  It is 1966, Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a Robert Simon, an ordinary man whose blue eyes “were the only handsome thing about him”, and who takes over a rundown café in “ one of the poorest and dirtiest” districts in bustling Vienna. He recruits a barmaid Mila, and soon the customers flock in. Factory workers, market traders, elderly ladies, a wrestler, a painter, an unemployed seamstress in search of a job, each bringing their own stories … Continue reading Everyday heroism of one community

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year 60 People’s Choice winner

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Wildlife Photographer of the year 60 People’s Choice winner Ian Wood’s “No Access” fought off competition form 24 other images to emerge winner. Residents of St Leonards-on-Sea, on England’s south coast, had been leaving food out on the pavement to encourage foxes, but other urban wildlife had better idea. Ian noticed that badgers living near his house were coming out of forage, passing by a piece of badger graffiti as they did so. As a solitary badger made its way along the pavement glacing around the street, Ian clicked the picture at the right moment. His photo shows the badger, … Continue reading Wildlife Photographer of the Year 60 People’s Choice winner