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Hello there!
Welcome to my brand-new weekly newsletter.
Yes, I am starting a newsletter and this is the very first issue.
Each issue will include updates about what’s new on this site and what’s new with me.
I will also share links, quotes, music, videos, etc. that I encountered in the past week that I liked.
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I wrote this issue of the newsletter, and set up my website to be able to add more issues! (sorry, this is getting meta…)
What’s new with me
My batchmates from TIFR and I are conducting a Chai and Why session on . It will be an hour-long interactive session where we explore puzzles related to graph theory. The venue is Ruparel College, Matunga West, Mumbai. You can drop by if you are around, or you can watch it live on YouTube.
I started playing the overwhelmingly positively rated puzzle game Baba is You. I have only played the first 15 levels, but the concept is amazing and I have never seen anything like it before. In this game, you move around blocks to change the rules of the game to be able to clear each level. It’s brilliant.
I began reading Following the Equator by Mark Twain. It is humorous and informative. You will find an excerpt from the book below. Also see my reading list →
Curated content
Here are some titbits that I found this week that you might enjoy.
Some YouTube videos
Who made these circles in the Sahara? is an excellent video by Vox. Inspired by a peculiar observation made by a Redditor while browsing Google Earth, Christophe Hausbursin leads an investigation trying to solve the mystery behind the mysterious circles seen in the Saharan desert.
Mark Twain’s take on crossing the International Date Line:
Sept. 8.—Sunday. We are moving so nearly south that we cross only about two meridians of longitude a day. This morning we were in longitude 178 west from Greenwich, and 57 degrees west from San Francisco. To-morrow we shall be close to the center of the globe—the 180th degree of west longitude and 180th degree of east longitude.
And then we must drop out a day—lose a day out of our lives, a day never to be found again. We shall all die one day earlier than from the beginning of time we were foreordained to die. We shall be a day behindhand all through eternity. We shall always be saying to the other angels, “Fine day today,” and they will be always retorting, “But it isn’t to-day, it’s tomorrow.” We shall be in a state of confusion all the time and shall never know what true happiness is.
