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  • Marathon Pacing Debut!

    Date: December 2, 2018 Event: Millennium City Marathon, Gurgaon And there takes off my Marathon pacing career… Even though I have been running for 4 years now, I never had many chances to give back to the running community by pacing events. So, when the organizers of MCM were looking for a full marathon pacer…

  • Few bits about ‘HEAT’

    Originally posted on That Theoretical Physicist: As you know the Universe is made of matter and energy. The matter is made up of atoms and molecules. And it is the energy that causes (triggers) these atoms and molecules in motion. They bump into each other or vibrate back and forth and increased the atomic/molecular kinetic energy…

  • Vaporization vs Evaporation vs Boiling

    Originally posted on That Theoretical Physicist: While working at my previous organization where I was a development editor for school books, I had quite a lot of interaction with school teachers. The topics of these interactions vary from new teaching methods to the content which goes into the text books to various other subject related…

  • Another year, Another ADHM done…

    Ever since I started taking long distance running seriously and ever since I started getting to know the running groups in Delhi, the one thing i noticed was that everyone seemed looking forward to, at any time of the year, yes, the tAirtel Delhi Half Marathon or ADHM… and the count down to the event……

  • The levers in our body

    Originally posted on That Theoretical Physicist: Archimedes once said, “Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth.” It was Archimedes who came up with the idea of levers which will reduce our effort in moving heavy load. Levers are simple machines which makes our lifting and moving of things easier. We…

  • Static Electricity

    Originally posted on That Theoretical Physicist: Have you ever wondered what causes a bad hair day or the sparks from your woollen blanket during winter or the random shocks you get from random objects now and then or the standing fur of your pet cat or the most obvious, disastrous lightning dashing across the evening sky!?…

  • A note on Electric Heating…

    Originally posted on That Theoretical Physicist: Heating coil in an oven. Last day I was going through a class 6 science textbook. I was reading the chapter on ‘electricity’ where there was a discussion on the kinds of materials used in different electrical apparatus like iron box, heating coils, water heaters, bulb filaments, etc. It was mentioned…

  • Beyond the threshold of no return …

    Originally posted on Melissa on Shuffle: “I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I’ve reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time on what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for overt cynicism, excessive criticism and the…