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Introduction

We brothers often discuss simple and yet interesting scientific things which affect many of our lives. I proposed that we should document a few of the more useful ideas.
This blog-thread is the result.
This blog page will be used mostly to discuss scientific angles of a few practical aspects. As we are currently going through the age of Covid-19, we shall start with a few blog posts on this topic.

Amit Kumar Mishra
Asit Kumar Mishra

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