Nature is a prominent mathematician!

The drive of curiosity leads people to travel to numerous places to enjoy and explore natural beauty. Indeed, nature is the treasure house of joy and wisdom. Everyone has some sort of craze for nature, and nature peculiarly loves symmetry. Don’t we think for a single moment why nature looks […]

Adaptive focus digital sunglasses

My grandmother always used to say, eat carrots to have sharp eyesight like Arjuna. She had good vision, but sometimes she used glasses to read the newspaper. And I wondered maybe she too did not eat enough carrots. I asked her why you are wearing these glasses. She said I […]

Fog, wood, cooler rooms, and new radar technology

Here I am recounting, of course in a more polished language, what I told a few train coach mates who were in fact PhD students of different institutes returning from a conference. It all started with each of us describing to others, the research work we presented at the conference. […]

Biomimetics–Nature’s intellectual property at our service

It was a rainy afternoon, while I was drying freshly washed Taro (Colocasiaesculenta) leaves, which is a key ingredient in the preparation of an authentic Mangalorean snack called ‘Pathrode’ (pronounced as ‘pa-throw-day’ in Kannada and Konkani, audio link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cHm_0DaGxVhWgQZv15CEed-x8x2L39Vt/view?usp=sharing). Pathrode is a steamed roll of taro leaves coated with coconut […]