Tuesday, December 05, 2017

Quick notes: Real-life Mowgli, Brown cloud...

  • Two-year-old Samarth Bangari: Meet real-life Mowgli, darling of monkeys, from village near Dharwad


  • Asian Brown Cloud? European Space Agency's Sentinel-5P captures dense carbon monoxide cloud over India and China. Carbon monoxide displaces oxygen in the blood and deprives the heart, brain, and other vital organs of oxygen.
  • http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2017/12/Global_carbon_monoxide_measured_by_Sentinel-5P


  • Harmful "vegetable" oils: Why you should avoid consuming new age oils -- Canola, Corn, Soybean, Sunflower and Safflower. The best part is that none of these “vegetable” oils is vegetables and all, with the exception of coconut oil, are extremely dangerous for you. 


  • Cow manure to fuel: Toyota plant to produce 1.2 tons of hydrogen fuel per day and 2.35 megawatts of electricity -- all from cow manure ... Perfect for India. Show this to Nitin Gadkari.


  • Dharmic foundation at home: When TamBram ladies marry white guys or Muslims, in most cases their children grow up as Hindus. Strong dharmic foundations.


  • Does Amazon create jobs? Well, it hired 75,000 robots in 2017.... 2017 saw 170,000 fewer retail jobs in the US and 75,000 more Amazon robots.


  • Amazon tax: "Since 2008 Walmart has paid $64B in corporate income tax, while Amazon has paid $1.4B. This is despite the fact that, in the last 24 months, Amazon has added the value of Walmart to its market cap. The most uncomfortable question in business, in my view, is how do we pay our soldiers, firefighters, and teachers if a firm can ascend to $460B in value (#5 in the world) without paying any meaningful corporate taxes" -- Prof Scott Galloway is renowned for his marketing acumen and having accurately predicted that Amazon would buy Whole Foods.


  • Congestion charges: London traffic model in New Delhi soon?


  • Pedal Power: Ola begins offering a bicycle-sharing service


  • Solar fires – DC arc faults: Why you should stay away from cheap Chinese solar inverters.

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