Taken at Patel Brothers on Devon Avenue during one of our frequent trips to get good food and groceries. Since I started posting here, I notice certain things more often and this photo just struck me.
First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe
Researchers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to make the largest 3D map of our universe and world-leading measurements of dark energy, the mysterious cause of its accelerating expansion
The first results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (#DESI) show preliminary signs of new physics.
They looked at baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), bubbles that formed in the early universe and froze as the universe expanded and cooled. These bubbles lead to an overdensity of galaxies — a ruler used to measure the expansion history of the universe. The measurements hint that dark energy may be evolving over time.
Lots of excitement around here (in Barcelona) because new cosmological results from #DESI are coming out this afternoon. The press are here and everything. I'm told the papers will magically appear at 5pm CEST here:
For many #desi#newcomers settling in #Canada, the transition isn’t as intimidating as it used to be. Thanks to YouTube & Instagram influencers, they arrive armed with info, from scoring a free phone to accessing free groceries at charity food banks & more.
In recent weeks, several international students lining up for free groceries have received notices from their colleges stating that these #FoodBanks are intended for the most vulnerable in society
🍉 There is a long history of South Asian American activists standing with colonized people under attack.
I recently came across this 1947 newspaper clipping on the South Asian American Digital Archive website.
The article is from the papers of ex-Gadharite Godha Ram Channon.
It describes him teaming up with Black, Greek, Communist, and labor organizers in San Francisco to protest Dutch attacks during the Indonesian National Revolution.
It's nice to be in pjs and home after a long working day.
Hot chrysanthemum tea on a rainy evening always hits the spot.
Yesterday's late night payasam also hits the spot for tonight's dessert. So lovely! (also all gone now).
As a bonus, here's a quick #desi meal hack: if you're out of indian vermicelli or can't find it, spaghettini works really well and has exactly the right texture for payasam. Just don't tell the italians you're using it in an indian dessert! 😉
We’re bringing back the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour on Sunday, September 24!
Come discover the stories of four generations of immigrant feminists, anti-colonial freedom fighters, and anti-racist organizers, told through storytelling, street theater, and lots of archival materials.
Astronomers use powerful gravitational lenses to peer farther into the Universe than they could with their telescopes alone. A foreground galaxy acts as a natural lens for a more distant galaxy, magnifying it and often splitting its light into several versions. When the alignment is almost perfect, the light is split four ways into an "Einstein Cross." Only a few of these have ever been discovered, and now astronomers have found a new one using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. It's both beautiful and scientifically valuable for studying the distant Universe.
For the time, saw the term #APIDA History Month being used, apparently an "inclusive" update of #AAPI to include "Desi Americans."
I always hated the word #Desi, seeing it as a North Indian term & representative of cultural imposition. And it is - derived from Hindustani, and, according to Wikipedia its use is "usually restricted to Sanskrit-derived (Indo-Aryan) languages."
Of course, Indian-American identity has always been very North-Indian centric, unfortunately. So not surprising.
People usually trace Asian American movements to 1968.
But I found an old newspaper article about an "Oriental Students Association" at the University of California in 1907, with members from India, China, Thailand, and Japan.
I love Mastodon, but I miss my POC activist, #Desi, and #AsianAmerican communities back on Instagram and Twitter.
Like back on IG and Twitter, folks I know are talking about #NoToSB147, opposing the proposed Texas law that would prohibit immigrants from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia from owning property.
I’m just not seeing that on here, and it’s unfortunate.
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