I thought India would - as usual - be sucked into saber-rattling and Himalayan disputes. Instead, it went straight to the core of the issue: markets, technology, digital infrastructure. What I hear from Beijing is worry pic.twitter.com/Q9OEMgGIyN
— Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) July 1, 2020
Roscosmos will consider the option of creating an #AngaraA5VM with reusable stages. So we have now as far as I remember 3 different projects of reusable rockets: Krylo-SV, Amur-SPG and now Angara-A5VM. https://t.co/bqsIFlPZgc
— Katya Pavlushchenko (@katlinegrey) June 30, 2020
Just had conversation with a British couple who have a holiday home near us. They voted for Brexit and have made no arrangements whatsoever for what happens on Jan 1. They have now discovered the reality of their situation.
— RS Archer (@archer_rs) June 29, 2020
The blame apparently is with "Brussels".
THREAD: Survey of patients testing positive for Coronavirus, some important findings. Among them, about one-third of symptomatic outpatients reported they hadn't returned to baseline health by 14–21 days after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection. https://t.co/TwWcOK8Vcu
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) June 30, 2020
The duck curve was one of the most iconic energy graphs of all time, projecting large mid-day drop and rapid afternoon ramp of non-intermittent generation in California. The original duck curve came out in 2013 and went through 2020; now we can see what actually happened: 1/4 pic.twitter.com/vtq0ii0EBh
— Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath) June 30, 2020
'The PLA has never taken such a blatant step at Pangong Tso': An interview with @sdinny14, who knows the ins and outs of Pangong Tso more than most, on why the current situation is unprecedented (full podcast to follow): https://t.co/EKiH32VaVL
— Ananth Krishnan (@ananthkrishnan) June 30, 2020
This is my thoughtful response based on my research and expertise. One app doesn’t tell the whole story. https://t.co/0NkZlDfe32 https://t.co/BtKp0oZONU
— Whitney Merrill (@wbm312) June 30, 2020
When you see someone putting extra water in Maggi pic.twitter.com/MfEoH3HwlA
— Nirav (@nirav_lalan) June 30, 2020
Nearly the end of #Pride2020 month, so here's one of my most rainbow-tastic rock images: another image of bright olivines in plagioclase from sample U5A17, Unit 5, Eastern Layered Intrusion, Rum. FOV 2mm wide.🌈🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/7v0IAdWMtQ
— John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴 (@FaithfullJohn) June 29, 2020
During 1962, the PLA apparently divided Aksai Chin into four 'defence areas' each with an assigned HQ and under the overall command of Xinijiang Military Command. These defence areas were:
— Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) June 30, 2020
1. Tianwendian 2. Heweitan 3. Kongka La (Pass) 4. Ali
I love Paytm. Till early this year the entire company was using Ding Talk, a Chinese app for internal communications. And now it is a proud Indian.
— Ashish K. Mishra (@akm1410) June 30, 2020
The Human Genome Project transformed biology and medicine https://t.co/rizH0H7IPR
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) June 30, 2020
The situation today is different and most of the key actors of 1962 are dead. A critical appraisal of our faults and flaws should not be averse to a self-assured republic, writes @MakrandParanspe, #IndiaChinaFaceOff, https://t.co/yocQN0cu3B pic.twitter.com/ePwBJkvsX3
— Open Magazine (@Openthemag) June 29, 2020
I blame lockdown but for some reason decided to cook Babylonian meal from the recipe tablet on the right; at 1750 BCE are the oldest recipes existing. Seemed to go down OK "Best Mesopotamian meal I have eaten".
— Bill Sutherland (@Bill_Sutherland) June 28, 2020
A thread 1/6 pic.twitter.com/gqYMJopbxM
The stupidest, most shallow commentary is that we are good at what we make and if we close our market to others like the Chinese, we will create wonders for ourselves and our companies.
— Ashish K. Mishra (@akm1410) June 30, 2020
Michael Bloomberg started his company in 1981. He was already 39 years old. He faced large incumbents with tens of thousands of installed terminals and by global news agencies.
— NeckarCap (@NeckarValue) June 29, 2020
Let's take a look at how he cracked the code to become the dominant player in financial information pic.twitter.com/y0MeYR82s6
How stock-based compensation inflates underlying FCF pic.twitter.com/WFycya28m7
— Bread Crumbs Capital (@CrowdedTradeCap) June 29, 2020
Thread: There’s been talk about the abrogation of Article 370 being responsible for the current standoff at the LAC. So in this thread, I am going back to my newsletter's coverage to examine Chinese views and India-China engagement on boundary issues since Aug. 5.
— Manoj Kewalramani (@theChinaDude) June 29, 2020
River flow direction in Europe #rstats #ggplot2 #geography #dataviz pic.twitter.com/Z1ZXUyfoZy
— Dominic Royé (@dr_xeo) June 28, 2020
With AI this machine easily found Waldo!#AI #MachineLearning #Robotics #DataScience @zerogravityhxp HT @briansolis@SpirosMargaris @DeepLearn007 @HaroldSinnott @Paula_Piccard @gvalan @ipfconline1 @diioannid @Droit_IA @ShiCooks @labordeolivier @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 pic.twitter.com/2doD317grx
— Jean-Baptiste Lefevre (@jblefevre60) June 29, 2020
The left hand is holding up all Chinese shipments & the right hand is protesting!
— M K Venu (@mkvenu1) June 29, 2020
Hold-ups at ports will hit India, not China: Nitin Gadkari - Times of India https://t.co/VSx3r7Mqod
Why Hydrogen, Why Now? Because Climate, Economy And Finance Say So https://t.co/4pM5JnhRMb via @forbes#GreenTech #ClimateChange
— ipfconline (@ipfconline1) June 29, 2020
Cc @DeepLearn007 @andi_staub @SpirosMargaris @MiaD @AlaricAloor @jblefevre60 @ahier @AkwyZ @mallys_ @Fabriziobustama @HITpol @HaroldSinnott
The red circle is where the PLA has reinforced itself. @manupubby has marked the Chinese LAC claim based on @NMenonRao’s finding. The PLA seems to be beyond its claim line....on someone else’s territory. 🤔 https://t.co/7NyppS9WtX pic.twitter.com/7DDEi1jJbt
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) June 28, 2020
Thought your feed could use some von Karman vortices.
— Dakota Smith (@weatherdak) June 27, 2020
Enjoy their beauty. pic.twitter.com/qG4oq7BsCA
— Star Trek Minus Context (@NoContextTrek) June 28, 2020
Effectively a Senior Citizen willing to lock in money:
— Deepak Shenoy (@deepakshenoy) June 28, 2020
1) SCSS: 15 lakh at 7.4% fixed
2) PMVVY : 15 lakh at 7.4% floating (with scss)
3) RBI bonds: No upper limit, 7.1% floating with NSC+0.35%
4) NSCs themselves (5y, 6.75%)
5) Do not buy bank bonds please they are toxic.
First signs of trouble in Pangong was last September, days after Ladakh became UT | India News,The Indian Express https://t.co/0Xp1wQ95aP
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) June 28, 2020
man i be overthinking these pic.twitter.com/qZ6vdVRdMh
— drunkestein (@ahmedheshamm4) June 26, 2020
Roscosmos published an article in Russian Space magazine this week about #CrewDragon flight. You can find it here: https://t.co/xO0x8ajWxf, and here is a quick summary of their thoughts of this flight. pic.twitter.com/Cn3aK76nnL
— Katya Pavlushchenko (@katlinegrey) June 27, 2020
BREAKING - Sensors in Sweden have detected a rise in nuclear particles from somewhere near on or near the Baltic Sea. The Stockholm monitoring station detected 3isotopes; Cs-134, Cs-137 & Ru-103 associated with nuclear fission at higher than usual levels. pic.twitter.com/tkLsMqZK62
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) June 27, 2020
A Galactic Year is the time it takes our solar system to orbit the Milky Way. It takes ~230 million years to finish one and we actually undulate up and down along the way: gravity pulls us toward the dense disk, but our momentum makes us overshoot, so we get pulled down again pic.twitter.com/w6z1Lsl5hL
— Dr James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) June 27, 2020
John Bolton’s new book reveals that Trump thought Finland was under Russian control.
— Lin Peace (@Linda_STLN10) June 27, 2020
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin says, “To be fair, we’ve thought the same thing about the United States since January 20, 2017.”
I love her! ❤️🇫🇮
This is an amazing video of cutting edge technology from only 39 years ago, 1981 pic.twitter.com/1NKqYtvqI0
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) June 27, 2020
The world’s most simple ‘sorting by size’ system pic.twitter.com/pYRXJFPi8u
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) June 26, 2020
There wl be 3 types of cos now:-
— Arun Mukherjee (@Arunstockguru) June 27, 2020
1) Will burry thr sins under cover of covid.Ones in a life opportunity to sipphon massive
2) Average cos wl hope of govt support and corona ending
3) Strong ethical cos wt grt pedigrees who wl transform this threat into opportunity and grow big
Last time Prasar Bharati / AIR issued similar ‘notice’ to Press Trust of India was in 1976.
— Arvind Gunasekar (@arvindgunasekar) June 27, 2020
Yeah, it’s EMERGENCY !
Source: New Agencies From Pegion To Internet by KM Shrivastava pic.twitter.com/FgF47gyk2i
Behold Amish Tripathi (Cathedral School, St Xavier’s College, IIM Calcutta, six Westland books) and Sanjeev Sanyal (St Xavier’s/St James’ School, SRCC, Oxford Univ, four Penguin books) complaining about “anglicised publishing elites” and how tough life is for “real” Indians. https://t.co/1N56VveA0d
— Amitabh Dubey (@dubeyamitabh) June 26, 2020
Thoughts on Chi & Art. 370: There were good domestic reasons, esp. with regard to Kashmir strategy, to assess that Ind actions re Art 370 were ill-advised & poorly timed. But no analyst anywhere saw that as signaling offensive Ind intentions re China/LAC/Aksai Chin. 1/4
— Rajesh Rajagopalan (@RRajagopalanJNU) June 26, 2020
Anyone who follows cricket shoild see this, and yes, someone needs to do a cricket equivalent. Great find @kshemalw! https://t.co/tbnISLuBtW
— Joy Bhattacharjya (@joybhattacharj) June 26, 2020
Social distancing in Parisian cafés today: pic.twitter.com/armOGkEARu
— Dawn Robertson 🇪🇺🏴🇳🇱#FBPE (@RobertsonDawn3) June 25, 2020
‘Forty’ is the only number in English whose letters are in alphabetical order.
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) June 26, 2020
He did not say this at all! Not even close! The US isn’t touching the India-China dispute with a ten foot pole militarily. What Pompeo actually said below. He was referring to general rebalance. Also we are leaving Ger because Trump hates America’s friends https://t.co/vEK1Zo1h43
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) June 26, 2020
Interesting #Sentinel2 time series of Europe's tallest wandering dune - Dune du Pilat - near Arcachon on beautiful French Atlantic coast🛰️🌍@laduneduPilat @EspritBassin @sentinel_hub @CopernicusData #France #DuneDuPilat #EarthObservation pic.twitter.com/sWlbMgO8mR
— Erdbeobachtung 🛰️ (@Erdbeobachtung) June 26, 2020
Market has stalled since latest peak on June 8, just as @federalreserve’s balance sheet stopped expanding
— Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) June 26, 2020
[Past performance is no guarantee of future results] pic.twitter.com/816mLGDTeV
Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC) has updated the Alaska #LNG project cost estimate in a push to boost its competitiveness.https://t.co/In5QDZgAtp
— LNG World News (Offshore Energy) (@LNGWN) June 26, 2020
RBI begins work on a one time restructuring scheme for companies affected by Covid-19 and lockdown. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/OdrZC1IvW4
— BloombergQuint (@BloombergQuint) June 26, 2020
The myopia of 20/20 hindsight:
— Suhasini Haidar (@suhasinih) June 26, 2020
"It is sad to see that now foreign policy, too, has fallen victim to very narrow and cynical jousting in domestic politics.",writes Former Foreign Secy, fmr Chairman of the NSAB Shyam Saran about recent political jibes at him https://t.co/cZwJ2CPwy0
33 yrs ago on this day, my Battalion captured QAID POST, now BANA POST, in world's highest attack at 21153 ft at Siachen Glacier. Salute Hony Capt Bana Singh, PVC, Sub Sansar Chand, MVC, all other awardees & heroes!
— Lt Gen Satish Dua🇮🇳 (@TheSatishDua) June 26, 2020
Proud to belong to this Bravest of Brave Paltan.
Jai Durge! pic.twitter.com/jQM8csm6vo
“China views India not as a peer, but as a subordinate state trying to punch above its weight,” says Mr. [Ashley] Tellis. “From a Chinese perspective, it makes sense to teach India a lesson, cut it down to size, and show that there’s a hierarchy in Asia with China at its apex.” https://t.co/ONUytLPrj5
— Jeff M. Smith (@Cold_Peace_) June 26, 2020
Vlad had too much to drink at the Moscow parade pic.twitter.com/BRucvhvzPG
— Sentinel (@StratSentinel) June 25, 2020
Everyone always says that I was the loneliest man that ever was, flying by myself in the CM while Neil & Buzz went to the lunar surface… But that honor goes to John Young on Apollo 10–the dress rehearsal for Apollo 11. He circled the moon alone so I could, too. #ThursdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/WhS0qoZPm5
— Michael Collins (@AstroMCollins) June 25, 2020
This was my favorite Star Trek Voyager episode https://t.co/5RGOTikJ3k
— Bobak Ferdowsi (@tweetsoutloud) June 25, 2020
#ThinSectionThursday Still at home, but here's another unseen pic, of U5A17 (possibly the loveliest rock I've ever collected) from Unit 5, Rum. Bright elongate olivine xls, enlcosed in large blue + black cpx, and grey/white striped plagioclase oikocrysts. A lot going on here... pic.twitter.com/d8tVZm12sL
— John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴 (@FaithfullJohn) June 25, 2020
UP Government is not providing any info in their redundant website but UP Government issues regular bulletins through WhatsApp to the journalists there.
— James Wilson (@jamewils) June 25, 2020
But each district issues detailed bulletins in their website but to collate 75 districts data is really a tedious process! https://t.co/LtuIanSuWk
The upcoming 750 km long Samruddhi expressway connecting #Nagpur & #Mumbai will have 10 overpasses for #wildlife movement. It is praiseworthy that for the 1st time, authorities have incorporated such a proposal at the planning stage of an expressway. https://t.co/dPmaJHazEK pic.twitter.com/8QWFldMT7s
— Parimal Nathwani (@mpparimal) June 25, 2020
Why watching Netflix when you have this: https://t.co/W1YiIcXRMX
— Matt Suiche @ #OPCDE2020 (@msuiche) June 25, 2020
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka provide most comprehensive data, while UP doesn’t even provide case/death nos on its website.
— Soutik Biswas (@soutikBBC) June 25, 2020
Excellent @the_hindu graphic on official available #Covid19 data in 21 Indian states and union territories.#Covid pic.twitter.com/MQcIT1MIxr
Finally, insomnia explained. pic.twitter.com/wR5B9NMHfq
— Dr Ruth Mitchell FRACS (@drruthmitchell) June 25, 2020
Turns out bees have quite the artistic vision pic.twitter.com/1dD8lyQrMh
— Mashable (@mashable) June 25, 2020
The US-Phillippines war was one of the most grotesque wars in history. In one island, Captain Smith ordered the soldiers to kill everyone over the age of 10.
— Historic.ly (@historic_ly) June 24, 2020
David Fagen refused to commit these atrocities, defected and fought on the side of the Filipino Liberation Army pic.twitter.com/0rb27bfKLv
The Chinese J-20 hype that has started in some quarters is ludicrous. As former Indian Air Force chiefs have publicly stated, the J-20 has been repeatedly detected at significant ranges by existing Indian fighters. Moreover, the J-20 still does not have the right kind of engines.
— Saurav Jha (@SJha1618) June 25, 2020
Since the 'scene' seems to be shifting to DBO & Burtsa (Burtse) Y-junction -- here's to #China. We were always flying there & were clear that #LAC was way East. A shot of my logbook of 1980 of our missions to Burtsa. So, do not tweak history #galwanvalleyclash #ChinaIndiaFaceoff pic.twitter.com/MdTSYAEbM3
— Manmohan Bahadur (@BahadurManmohan) June 25, 2020
Still unclear to me whether PRC’s claim line in Galwan is formally revised beyond pre-‘62 ceasefire. Latest reporting suggests so (see screenshot from @ananthkrishnan), but @zlj517’s statement below can be read as a request for a buffer on the Indian side of the LAC. https://t.co/XWHmZw2pPu pic.twitter.com/OxpBxWbhv8
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) June 24, 2020
Indian National Space, Promotion & Authorisation Centre is not a new institution but it's role has been extended into ISRO. This is a new turn in the arena of Space. They will supplement each other's work they will not work at cross purposes: MoS for Atomic Energy & Space
— ANI (@ANI) June 24, 2020
Just to clarify, the red line (marked CCL) denotes the post-May 5th “China Claim Line”, which is 1.5 km inside the Indian Claim Line (or the LAC as we see it).
— Ajai Shukla (@ajaishukla) June 24, 2020
After June 6th, of course, the China Claim Line shifted to the Galwan estuary, with China claiming entire Galwan valley https://t.co/MzC74FOf0q
Blast from the past with interesting (?) relevance for today. In 1961 George McGhee at State’s Policy Planning wrote a memo to Secretary Dean Rusk suggesting the US help India get nuclear weapons before China did. Read below. It was rejected by Rusk but what a counterfactual... pic.twitter.com/XR2iltwz1E
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) June 24, 2020
Lets take a deeper dive on Yun Sun's WOTR article on the Galwan-Pangong crisis. She does as good a job as any in trying to deconstruct China's thinking.
— Jeff M. Smith (@Cold_Peace_) June 24, 2020
To start, she argues, as I have, that Indian infrastructure was the main cause for China's adventure. https://t.co/zHDxWxjlMt
Satellite imagery from the Galwan Valley on June 22nd shows that 'disengagement' really isn't the word that the government should be using. This gif shows the small outpost that sparked the June 15th clashes. It has grown hugely in size. Indian troops aren't dismantling this one. pic.twitter.com/8Q78ftr3uW
— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) June 24, 2020
#Lonar Lake in Maharashtra, was created by an asteroid in Pleistocene Epoch. It is one of the four known, hyper-velocity, impact craters in basaltic rock anywhere on Earth. Something strange happened within few days here. The water turned into pink. Captured by Landsat 8 of @NASA pic.twitter.com/v9wHj1EYPV
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) June 24, 2020
Barcelona opera house reopens with performance to 2,292 plants https://t.co/d57In0dwyh pic.twitter.com/CDGcjKy2F9
— CNN (@CNN) June 23, 2020
Hours after India & China agree to disengage, @detresfa_'s new satellite images shows China's relentless build-up in the sector, as I've been highlighting on @IndiaToday. https://t.co/DcowF227fv
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) June 23, 2020
Apaches. Looks so much like the #PangongTso Lake And why not? pic.twitter.com/xjzjR6ummO @Rotarywings1
— Aviator Anil Chopra (@Chopsyturvey) June 23, 2020
Devastating.
— Jeff M. Smith (@Cold_Peace_) June 23, 2020
As I said last week, if it were up to me I'd be raising China's heinous detention of two Canadian🇨🇦 citizens at every meeting, every day. No more free passes. No more bullying of US allies and partners. No more business as usual until they're released. Time to lead. https://t.co/fTjsiodKMj
The family which love to slide together. #ElephantVoices pic.twitter.com/PeqZ6agzgA
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) June 23, 2020
Ruling party attacks Dr.MMS citing a classified report by Shyam Saran, then Chairman of NSAB, purportedly saying Chinese have taken over 640 sq km of Indian territory along LAC over decades. I asked Shyam Saran and he says the report mentions no such figure! Can Def Min clarify?
— M K Venu (@mkvenu1) June 23, 2020
Allanite (epidote) crystal with radial fractures, (due to the emission of radioactive particles) and brown biotite in a granite from Amparo, Brazil. PPL (plane polarized light), 10x#alexstrekeisen #allanite #granite #Brazil pic.twitter.com/fSGw3cu2ZH
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) June 23, 2020
The Adria Tour has been a tragic lesson in rushing the return to normal in sport.
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) June 23, 2020
Novak Djokovic organised a tennis tournament where adherence to social distancing has been minimal. He and several others, including one player’s pregnant wife, have now tested positive for Covid. https://t.co/ojbeIR9wns
If Apple Watch can detect hand washing now then it can probably detect other activities involving vigorous hand motions and I for one would like to know what Apple is doing with the data
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) June 22, 2020
The Sun being eclipsed by Mars' moon Phobos, captured by @MarsCuriosity's MastCam on April 4 2020 (Sol 2723). Adjusted for true time rate (39 seconds start to finish). pic.twitter.com/3mU5i49Tz2
— Kevin M. Gill (@kevinmgill) June 22, 2020
Between 2004 and 2014, BJP had issued almost 24 political resolutions, sought a white paper, sent its own delegation to the border, and held several pressers criticising the then UPA govt on border issues with China
— Ravi Nair (@t_d_h_nair) June 23, 2020
Now, BJP want Congress to keep silence! https://t.co/Ee8d695Q2s
The countries with very high death rates got there by having low testing rates.
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 21, 2020
* The death rate in the UK, Italy, and the US was rising very rapidly while testing remained very low.
* Others increased testing even at low death rates and kept the death toll low. pic.twitter.com/XamSkooh94
I really love this visualisation of the different Gaelic words for ~hill. (Scale the y axis down fivefold if you’re from the less elevated parts of the western isles - there is a 100m high ‘beinn’ on Eriskay!) #gaidhlig #readingthegaeliclandscape pic.twitter.com/teC317JT2H
— Donald Iain MacDonald (@dimacdonald) June 21, 2020
This is a 1963 map (CIA library) that shows the Chinese claim lines in 56 (dots) & 60(dashes). I have encircled Galwan, Hot Spring and Pangong. Zoom. The dashes cross Galwan river, but short of its confluence with Shyok--which is the Valley. China is now pushing it further west. pic.twitter.com/MiUlF1ZxMR
— Stanly Johny (@johnstanly) June 22, 2020
. . . is, even now, coming through leaked stories than official briefing. Why rub PLA noses in it again? Also, F4-F8 still remains a problem. Hoping Ind consideration at Galwan helps resolve F4-F8? Suggests a complicated set of calculations, but possibly understandable. 6/6
— Rajesh Rajagopalan (@RRajagopalanJNU) June 22, 2020
21 July 1962, Times of India: "Galwan Valley situation is unchanged" pic.twitter.com/4kUtvmHnX6
— Shivam Vij (@DilliDurAst) June 22, 2020
15 July 1962, Times of India: "Chinese scare tactics fail; pressure on Indian post in Galwan eases". pic.twitter.com/Z9SyMATh27
— Shivam Vij (@DilliDurAst) June 22, 2020
An interesting interview with Chinese scholar Lanxin Xiang, offering an explanation (and a critique) of China's recent assertiveness. https://t.co/1YiSoH3xtx pic.twitter.com/rBQgfjTSS5
— Dhruva Jaishankar (@d_jaishankar) June 21, 2020
A solar #Eclipse happened earlier today, visible from Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and much of Asia.
— Simon Proud (@simon_sat) June 21, 2020
Here's how it looked from @eumetsat's #Meteosat pic.twitter.com/o7uiVJ8NaB
Bolton on Balakot in his memoir: "...word soon came that Shanahan and Dunford wanted to talk to Pompeo and me about a ballooning crisis between India and Pakistan. After hours of phone calls, the crisis passed, perhaps because, in substance, there never really had been one." 1/2
— Christopher Clary (@clary_co) June 21, 2020
Bernstein Research finds correlation between density of state's contact tracing and testing and scope of continued spread of Covid. Also finds correlation to Google mobility data. States with higher mobility and low testing and tracing are more likely to be experiencing outbreaks pic.twitter.com/8t1UwLecyz
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) June 21, 2020
This map is from the CIA's 1963 study of the Sino-Indian border dispute.
— Nitin Pai (@acorn) June 21, 2020
Clearly shows China DID NOT claim Galwan Valley in 1962. Xi Jinping's regime is making new claims and passing it off as old ones.
Source: https://t.co/lrB3eXZsoC (PDF) pic.twitter.com/sgnOGrVji1
SILICA and SILICATES #1
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) June 20, 2020
from top left clockwise: silica (chalcedony) in Ocean Jasper (Madagascar); chalcedony in Dinosaur Bone (Utah); Charoite in schist (Yakutia); Chlorite in blueschist (Valle d'Aosta)
...because Earth without Art is just eh...#science #geology #scicomm pic.twitter.com/q1esXHeMVN
One of the greatest flukes in cricket
— Rob Moody (@robelinda2) June 21, 2020
Does beer help the ball swing more???? pic.twitter.com/Ln84OhPHn0
I think this MEA language today leaves no room for ambiguity. Consistent with what the earlier Jaishankar/Wang readout stated, the June 15 incident had to have occurred on the Indian side of the LAC. https://t.co/bBJ57TRw4k pic.twitter.com/A3DSsSOdKW
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) June 21, 2020
Really enjoying reading @profmusgrave 's tale on Desch's arguments about the irrelevance of contemporary poli sci. https://t.co/xwpshvqCLC
— Steve Saideman (@smsaideman) June 20, 2020
I always find arguments against professionalization to be strange implicitly asserting that amateurs are better
If the LAC is at this bend (image from Reuters/Planetlabs), was the Chinese tent that India burnt down "just across the LAC" - as the PMO clarification (and China's MFA) said - or "on India's side of the LAC" - as the MEA said? Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/S0ECBhdcjb
— Ananth Krishnan (@ananthkrishnan) June 20, 2020
🤔🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/LG2cimkCFm
— Chicken3gg (@Chicken3gg) June 20, 2020
#Galwan PLA casualty breakdown
— Eva Zheng 郑怡斌 عائشة (@evazhengll) June 20, 2020
0 death 5 injured
PLA saved their n 10 Indian troops suffered from injuries at high altitude w/ assist of hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber in PLA post.
While 17 Indian soldiers were left over night lack of oxygen in sub-zero temp due to late rescue pic.twitter.com/eG90E1orIE
"Alternatively it may be the plan to eventually withdraw from Finger 4, tossing India a face-saver while retaining the tactically crucial heights overlooking the DSDBO road." https://t.co/fCIOF7NyJv
— Ananth Krishnan (@ananthkrishnan) June 20, 2020
1984, Dale Gardner retrieves Westar 6 during the 14th flight and 2nd of Discovery of NASA's #SpaceShuttle program, STS-51-A.
— Apollo (@blue_bnd) June 18, 2020
Two broken satellites (Palapa B2 and Westar 6) were picked up and return back to Earth by the crew 💥🛰️ pic.twitter.com/TsEtaCxRMU
Rotations of the planets shown to relative scale in 2D. Sidereal (relative to the stars) rotation periods shown pic.twitter.com/chMSUVMLwB
— Dr James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) June 20, 2020
Modi is likely seeking to save his own face. The Doklam standoff showed that, as long as Modi appears "strong" and claims a tactical victory, China can have its way. This explains why the entire Doklam—except for the 2017 standoff site in one corner—is now in PLA’s firm control.
— Brahma Chellaney (@Chellaney) June 20, 2020
Wow. Can’t believe China is communicating better than India. https://t.co/WegVb5sv5H
— Ashish K. Mishra (@akm1410) June 20, 2020
China’s Strategic Assessment of the Ladakh Clash - War on the Rocks by Yun Sun. A must-read for folks in India especially right now. https://t.co/w4L39cPP4x
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) June 19, 2020
Yes. We flow hydrogen through the engines to chill them before ignition. Being lighter than air, it rises along the sides of the cores to later flame up as we launch. Thus, making the Delta IV the most metal of all rockets https://t.co/Bp7mQMCFqH
— Tory Bruno (@torybruno) June 19, 2020
This beetle is already dead but he hasn't noticed yet pic.twitter.com/DY1R8b6HRW
— Sofía Martínez-Villalpando (@sofiabiologista) June 18, 2020
Why did the plethora of Indian security agencies miss the massive Chinese build up? Turns out, it hadn't. But there were many Kargil-type failures in assessing Chinese intentions. My piecehttps://t.co/YiP0D5tUdc
— Saikat Datta (saikatd@mstdn.social) (@saikatd) June 18, 2020
“The smartest move Modi has made vis-à-vis China is giving former army chief V.K. Singh MoS independent charge NE and MoS MEA.The PLA may now think twice before sending in troops inside Ladakh“.This 2014 piece by @sandipanthedeb hasn’t aged well,has it? 😬 https://t.co/v8v2DYnDdZ
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) June 19, 2020
How a forward post, a burnt tent, damming of the Galwan River, hundreds of vehicles, and 900 soldiers brawling on a ridgeline with nail-studded iron rods and clubs led to death. Two months of friction boiled over. It wasn’t inevitable but it was avoidable. https://t.co/56s1joseKz
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) June 19, 2020
— Archillect (@archillect) June 18, 2020
The NYT went to print with this story 3 days ago while Indian soldiers were still in captivity, and were released only Thursday evening according to this update. How does it make it false? https://t.co/j8mVq1MYae
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) June 18, 2020
6.4% of Delhites in 247 containment zones test positive for Covid-19 virus using PCR tests.https://t.co/SGzxodxDnv
— SonaliRanade (@sonaliranade) June 18, 2020
Sample size was 7040. Tests are being confined to containment zones only.
#thinsectionthursday - seriously bashed up zircon from the Variscan granitic basement of the ca. 15 million-year-old Ries impact crater in Germany pic.twitter.com/vk7aVLnuF8
— Romain Tartese (@Romiche29) June 18, 2020
I want to highlight, for me, the three most valuable things I learned from ASPI/@nrg8000's satellite imagery analysis overnight. First, the scale of the buildup at/near Finger 4 of Pangong-tso is really something. China's not leaving, is my takeaway. 1/3 https://t.co/SicpQLJq2A
— Christopher Clary (@clary_co) June 18, 2020
I can tell you from personal experience that (like snow) it looks gorgeous only in a picture, and 20 mins of living among constantly damp things and a ton of insects quickly wipes all of the romanticism away. But it is great for a 2-3 day vacation in a resort though 😊
— Krish Ashok (@krishashok) June 18, 2020
Google Cloud is slowly getting its game right. Amazon continues to lead the global cloud market with a 32% share, followed by Microsoft with 17% and Google and Alibaba at around 6% each. https://t.co/GEomnGhRKF
— Ashish K. Mishra (@akm1410) June 18, 2020
Is there an organism more dramatic than the bobtail squid? 🙄🐙 #squidvibrio #symbiosis #research #hawaii pic.twitter.com/Tu2qLVb7yF
— Tara EB (@TaraEssockBurns) June 17, 2020
"In India, we've been using steroids like dexamethasone since COVID-19 arrived," says Dr Behram Pardiwala, Internal Medicine Expert, @WockhardtHosp, to BOOM's @govindethiraj about the steroid that is being hailed as the new wonder drug against #COVID19.https://t.co/rzyKC9Ambl
— BOOM Live (@boomlive_in) June 18, 2020
Many years back when I was at #TimesNow and there was a plane crash near France, a colleague in front of me held a phone, moved to a corner and started speaking with an accent to give a telephonic live on the channel pretending to be a reporter from Paris. This happened a lot! https://t.co/IfrMCcDVdq
— JAGRITI CHANDRA (@jagritichandra) June 18, 2020
“Stephen Roach says that the era of the U.S. buck may be coming to an end and is forecasting a 35% decline soon in the U.S. currency against its major rivals, citing increases in the nation’s deficit and dwindling savings.”https://t.co/gjdf0RiDzP
— SonaliRanade (@sonaliranade) June 17, 2020
Who will bear the burden?
Col Santosh told his parents during a brief call on June 14 that there was a “big gulf” between the reality on the ground and what they were hearing from news channels. https://t.co/DD9Ht0c99e
— Sushant Singh (@SushantSin) June 17, 2020
Wait for it...
— Seán Doran (@_TheSeaning) June 17, 2020
made with data from SDO pic.twitter.com/wsy6HKWEia
Maneka Gandhi vs Union of India is probably one of the most brilliant PR heists performed by any Constitutional court, because almost nobody reads to the end to find out that she actually LOST the case!!! https://t.co/5qUqUCMT6y
— Gautam Bhatia (@gautambhatia88) June 17, 2020
Mr. Menon asks a Question:
— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) June 17, 2020
Over the years, tendency on part of constitutional courts in politically sensitive case to make a great declaration of law and then not provide relief. Large number of cases complaining of Government inaction. What would be the future of adjudication?
Sources :
— Shreya Dhoundial (@shreyadhoundial) June 17, 2020
Army Navy Air Force at highest level of Alert
Forward movement of all assets including Ships , Fighter Jets and troops
Rules of Engagement at LAC has changed. Local commanders told 'do what you need to when hostilities with PLA erupts '
No military level talks.
Gosh. Bloomberg Economics now predicting India's debt will balloon to over 90 per cent of GDP. pic.twitter.com/ROYoaSK9KF
— Mihir Sharma (@mihirssharma) June 17, 2020
There will be many test flights before commercial passengers are carried. First Earth to Earth test flights might be in 2 or 3 years.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 16, 2020
Clearest view of China’s huge presence in Galwan Valley 24 hrs after June 15 bloodshed. (By Ankit Kumar via @PlanetLabs):
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) June 17, 2020
1️⃣ Zero disengagement
2️⃣ Possibly bigger numbers *since* June 6 Lt Gen-level talks
3️⃣ Chinese had no plans to pull back
4️⃣ June 15 bloodshed pre-mediatated pic.twitter.com/SsQMwPWtTu
Hundreds of soldiers fighting on a narrow ridge in darkness for hours with iron rods and stones, with men from both sides falling from the mountain into the gorge below - details of what transpired Monday night are just shocking https://t.co/YPs7Ufq4Qe
— michael safi (@safimichael) June 17, 2020
My latest piece on the law governing contract workers - the rotten apple in India's labour legislation (everyone became witness to it during the nationwide lockdown) and how we can fix it.https://t.co/lzzeLVL3h0 pic.twitter.com/eSOyeWzuVh
— Somesh Jha (@someshjha7) June 17, 2020
Camus reminds us, "When a war breaks out, people say: 'It’s too stupid; it can’t last long.' But though a war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn’t prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way." 5/5
— Christopher Clary (@clary_co) June 17, 2020
I'm convinced that the local terrain mitigates these asymmetries, as @amilliff argued in @WarOnTheRocks last week. "Difficulties of fighting in the high altitude and harsh terrain make large changes to the territorial status quo very costly." https://t.co/Okws40q5s6 3/n
— Christopher Clary (@clary_co) June 17, 2020
Xi Jinping’s phone call with Ecuador’s president dominates Xinhua’s homepage this morning, Beijing time. The only mention of Galwan clash is “below the fold,” and just a link to the Western Command’s statement from yesterday. No signs China is trying to mobilize public opinion. pic.twitter.com/18kWbPntky
— M. Taylor Fravel (@fravel) June 17, 2020
“So... I’m gonnna shaaaaare my screeeeeennnn .... caneverybodyseeit?”
— BrickzWithTipz 🧱🏘 (@BrickzwithTipz) June 16, 2020
Asian Age. Good write up on new Chinese general now handling LAC. Handpicked by Pres Xi, he’s a rising star & has a mandate from the top. Sino-Indian rels have entered a new & unstable phase. https://t.co/ENw6yigUVi
— K. C. Singh (@ambkcsingh) June 17, 2020
Many may wonder why the clash between Indian-PLA forces involved medieval weapons like clubs or staves, and not firearms. In 1996, both sides agreed not to use firearms within 2km of the LAC. This reduces the number of potential fatalities in a clash, but increases its brutality. https://t.co/xa8c1HR4XW pic.twitter.com/e7uiT99rBr
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) June 17, 2020
1. Today is the 125th death anniversary of Gopal Ganesh Agarkar — liberal, rationalist, social reformer, crusader for individual rights, fearless writer. This bilingual thread is on his battles on behalf of women in 19th century Maharashtra.
— Niranjan Rajadhyaksha (@CafeEconomics) June 17, 2020
My attempt to make sense of what I think are pretty shocking developments along the Sino-Indian frontier over the last 48 hours in @monkeycageblog. https://t.co/CmSkHTAt2I
— Christopher Clary (@clary_co) June 17, 2020
Is that… a flying toilet?
— Popular Science (@PopSci) June 16, 2020
Watch a 1953 nuclear blast test disintegrate a house in high resolution: https://t.co/Y5j39hV3yD pic.twitter.com/asYFPioB59
