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Ambulance

Sped by the Sun

It was the solar-powered racing-cars in Australia that gave Abdul Malek Azad the idea. Azad is a professor at BRAC University in Dhaka, and also the leader of a project to make a solar-power...

  • Badri Sunderarajan
    Badri Sunderarajan
3 min read
art

Correction Suite

If your pencil makes a slip, and your straight line has a dip, or you tried to draw a ship, but messed the sail, or lines were only needed when you had not yet done the final pen, — the era...

  • Badri Sunderarajan
    Badri Sunderarajan
2 min read
Desert

Getting Hot

If you were a vulture flying for the first time across certain parts of the desert, you would notice the waves. Not cool wet ones, but yellow, lumbering ones spread out across the land. The ...

  • Badri Sunderarajan
    Badri Sunderarajan
3 min read
Diary

Alternating Current (Part 2)

Note: This is the second installation of a 2-part article. You can read the first part here [https://medium.com/snipette/alternating-current-part-1-9cfddc424df6]. After a few days of waitin...

  • Badri Sunderarajan
    Badri Sunderarajan
2 min read
Diary

Alternating Current (Part 1)

Alternating Current is called Alternating Current because it keeps changing the direction in which it moves. That happens because it’s made by turning an magnet round inside a coil of wire. ...

  • Badri Sunderarajan
    Badri Sunderarajan
4 min read
Algorithms

Metadata

The little bits that reveal your secrets When naturalist Gerald Durrell was on his way to the land of Bafut, in Cameroon, he stopped at a marketplace on his way and tried to take photographs...

  • Badri Sunderarajan
    Badri Sunderarajan
4 min read
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