Jaya: Illustrated Retelling of Mahabharata by Devdutt Pattanaik

Even for a sometime agnostic sometime atheist, this book made an interesting read. Very nicely narrated. Would highly recommend. But the story of Mahabharata did leave me with an uneasy feeling. I feel the entire story is a cynics delight. What with the power struggle, politics and characters it brings to life.

This must have been the spider that bit Spider Man

This must have been the spider that bit Spider Man

Wired reports of a spider discovered deep in the jungles of Madagascar that spins the largest webs in the world, using silk that’s tougher than any known biological substance.

The web spun by them is supposedly tougher than kevalar. From the looks of it, the spider does looks like an arachnopobic’s worst nightmare come true and quite capable of thwiping jets of kevalar like strands. 

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