Challenges for New Decade 2021!
Another year is dawning. It is also the dawn of a new decade - starting on 1 January 2021 and ending on 31 December 2030. I am sure these coming ten years would be the beginning of a new era.
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My Robot Vacuum Cleaner!
Having worked for 38 years with spatial data in the field of mapping and GIS, never did I imagine that, after 6 years of retirement, I would be back again working with spatial data, and that too produced using the latest technology of laser mapping!
You Are What You Eat!
If I go by the conventional medical wisdom then I should be taking four medicines a day, lifelong, after my heart attack and angioplasty in Jan 2011. However, I have gone completely medicine free since 2014, and so far so good, though there remains a lurking fear whether I am pushing my luck too far!
No Longer a Philosophical Conundrum!
My grandson, in his 12th grade philosophy class, is given the following type of discussion assignments:
Finding A Long-lost Colleague!
Thanks to Swaminathan Lakshminarayanan (VLS), I was able to locate and talk to my SAC-ISRO colleague Dr KS Rao, a Microwave Remote Sensing specialist, yesterday after a gap of 35 years!
The Meaning of Life!
" Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. ” When you reread a book much later in life, it gives you newer insights; because you start seeing the world a little differently, as you get older.
My First Online Class!
Just as many parents, students, and teachers had faced their first online class with some sort of stress and anxiety, today it is my turn! I have been provided with written instructions on keeping Two Plain sheets of paper, One Pen, a Quiet room without distractions, and to ensure that I charge the laptop prior to the online meeting! The whole thing came about because I had volunteered myself as a guinea pig for a medical study. To be precise, I have elected to be a participant in the Tata Longitudinal study: "Alzheimer’s Disease: Understanding mechanisms for early diagnosis and treatment" , being carried out at Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The TATA Longitudinal study of Aging (TLSA) is a long-term, ongoing aging cohort study of residents of the city of Bangalore, India. The study began in 2015 with the aim of recruiting 1000 elderly subjects from Bangalore and follow them up periodically for several years. Alzheimer's disease is th...