Shankar Ananth Asokan

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  • Breaking Out of a Nucleus

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    “An alpha particle is the nucleus of a helium atom. An unstable, or radioactive, nucleus sometimes spits out an alpha particle in a desperate attempt to turn itself into a lighter and more stable nucleus. The process poses a big puzzle, however. By rights, an alpha particle should not be able to get out of…

  • Infity Browsing

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    It started for fun… It started for a need.. What if we had a browser that was invisible…. What if we had a browser that can always stay on top.. What if we had a browser that had no borders…. What if a we had a browser where we can control opacity.. What if we…

  • Is Time Nonlinear?

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    I have this doubt. If Velocity is first order with time and acceleration is second order, they are with respect to earth as we perceive it. As we take this reference as Earth, by principle Earth should be stationary whereas it is not. Suppose I image one stationary object on this universe in some X…

  • The Mountain

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    A bunch of monkeys while traveling towards their destiny come across a big mountain. So one monkey tells, “This mountain is too big for us to climb, let us see if someone can help us”, the other one says “May be this is not our designated path, let us turn back”, one more starts to…

  • Art of Bargaining

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    If you have ever tried to do some shopping at Bangalore’s Majestic Shopping Complex you would know how much you would lose if you don’t have the skill of bargaining. I first recognized this during my first year UG when we used to buy college bags. We would initially lose a lot for the reason…

  • Yercaud Fantasies

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    So here we plan for a trip. The same team that left to Goa once in 2003 with a plan to go to a fishing spot nearby Bangalore and finally ended up in Goa. The 2003 trip was an adventurous one for the reason that we had no plan. We just took the trains and…

  • The Ring

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    Months ago when I called my Chinese friend she was very angry for not having informed about my marriage to her. I was very surprised for it was a shocking news even to me. Then I asked her how she came to know that I got married as I myself didn’t knew. Then came the…

  • Marketing Gandhi

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    So here comes a scene in movie “Ayutham Seivom”, Movie actress Maalavika is used for Marketing Gandhi’s Principles. The movie as such is real bagwaas with a poor screenplay and fails to create an impact in the audience. But this particular scene provides some food for thought. I do believe there is nothing wrong in…

  • The Cup of Coffee

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    My friend calls me for a cup of coffee. I refused it for I was deeply involved in my Saturday activity (Alone in Office thinking!) Most of our professional career is almost spent analyzing one thing “Trends” and predicting what would be the future. In our domain its quite pretty easy for the models are…

  • A Beautiful Day

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    It was beautiful day to start with. Two more confirmed medals for India. This year at Olympics is history. Apart from Cash Prizes Olympic Champions are also set to win dates with Bipasha 😉     And my friends sends a message “Breaking News, Vijay has won 4 golds in Olympics. 1. Jeep Lifting in…