Dinesh's photos

foodprint.org/blog/what-you-eat-has-a-water-footprint

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Oblique, low altitude aerial photograph of the central civic-ceremonial precinct at Tiwanaku, looking east. The Akpana pyramid is the large mound on the right side of the photograph, with the Kalasasya and the Semi-subterranean Temple immediately to the left. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwanaku www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki79R_Cw1-w&t=737s

www.google.com/books/edition/Memoirs_of_Extraordinary_Popular_Delusio/exA2AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR1&printsec=frontcover

In the course of 1957 Hilleman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Hilleman joined Merck as head of its new Virus and Cell Biology Research department, in West Point, Pennsylvania. What followed was prodigious. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150172 It was at Merck that Hilleman developed most of the forty experimental and licensed animal and human vaccines with which he is credited. On the fourteenth vaccine routinely recommended in current vaccine schedules, he developed eight: those for measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia, and Haemophilus influenzae bacteria. In 1963, his daughter Jeryl Lunn came down with the mumps. Hilleman cultivated viral material from her and used it as the basis of mumps vaccine. The Jeryl Lynn strain of the mumps vaccine is still used today. Hilleman and his team invented a vaccine for hepatitis B by treating blood serum with pepsin, urea, and formaldehyde. This was licensed in 1981 (though superseded in the United States in 1986 by a vaccine that was produced in yeast) and was still the preferred option in 150 countries as recently as 2003 ~ Page 225

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"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long." ~ E.E.Cummings

Cholera comes to New York while Science sleeps. “Is This a time for Sleep?” By Charles Kendrick, 1883

encyclopediaofbuddhism.org/wiki/Main_Page www.lionsroar.com/the-history-of-pure-land-buddhism/amp

. . . the president of Seismological Society of Japan told the ‘Asahi Shimbun: “There are many excuses we can make, but it amounted to a defeat for us. The only thing we can say is that it was beyond our expectation. “ But this could equally well be said of all large earthquakes. Only the location of earthquakes can be predicted -- not their size and not their timings. Yet map of the world, with the locations of the biggest earthquakes since 1500 plotted, reveals a puzzle. It is as if humanity took a collective decision to build as many as possible of its biggest cities on or close to fault lines. This illustrates the fatal interplay between the infrequency of disaster and the shortness of human memory.. . . Page 94

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On the eve of my fortieth birthday I sat on the porch having a smoke when out of the blue a man and a camel happened by. Neither uttered a sound at first, but as they drifted up the street and out of town the two of them began to sing. Yet what they sang is still a mystery to me— the words were indistinct and the tune too ornamental to recall. Into the desert they went and as they went their voices rose as one above the sifting sound of windblown sand. The wonder of their singing, its elusive blend of man and camel, seemed an ideal image for all uncommon couples. Was this the night that I had waited for so long? I wanted to believe it was, but just as they were vanishing, the man and camel ceased to sing, and galloped back to town. They stood before my porch, staring up at me with beady eyes, and said: "You ruined it. You ruined it forever." ~ Mark Strand

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The sixty century was a great watershed in the East African history -- a period of very rapid change and probably decline, in which the key ports simply ceased to exist and agricultural economy shrank. The culprit was almost certainly plague -- the same epidemic that devastated Europe and the Near East in the same fateful century. Indeed, it was most likely from an ancient East African wild-animal reservoir of plague that the disease broke out to infect so much of the late antique world. ~ Page 18

Image : Wikipedia -- public domain plates by S.G. Hughes and H. Pyall after T. Bury, plates watermarked "J. Whatman, 1831" - Bonhams hand-coloured aquatint plate from Drawing Made on the Spot