The first thing that I noticed once I moved to Gainesville, Florida was its night sky which was surprisingly clear of any major light pollution. With a population of around 140,000 people, Gainesville isn’t a large city by any means, yet I’m not accustomed to cities having such clear and…

Since my childhood days, I have fed pigeons in the balcony of my home along with my father. Although I no longer do the same, years of feeding has deemed my home a safe haven among the pigeon community. In all these years, I have witnessed five pigeon birth events…

Solar eclipses happen when a moon of a planet partially or completely blocks the Sun. On Earth, solar eclipses only happen on a new moon day (since only then is the sun at the opposite side). The moon’s orbital plane doesn’t exactly align with the orbit of Earth around the…

We all are aware that our solar system is part of a galaxy called the Milky Way. A spiral galaxy with more than a 100 billion stars, Milky Way is second largest in the local group of galaxies which includes the M31 (Andromeda Galaxy, the largest) and M33 (Triangulum Galaxy). …

Originally published on 9 May 2020. Heat maps are a popular way to represent data where each entity is associated with some intensity or magnitude. This article serves as a guide to making heat maps for spatial data using Google Maps for Android. Note: This blog expects you to know…

No matter who you are — a business owner or a developer — having a website shall be inevitable at a point in your career. There are a wide variety of options at your disposal — from no-code, dropdown website builders to hardcore web development using JavaScript frameworks like React. …

Current genetic knowledge suggests that human beings (Homo sapiens) evolved roughly 200,000 years ago in Africa. They quickly spread out and populated Europe, Asia and Oceania. Yet, the population of the Americas started only 20,000 years ago. Why did human beings take 180,000 years to populate North America? …

Python is a beautiful programming language having a wide variety of usages. Ideal for beginners, the Flask module in Python is a very simple solution to build RESTful APIs. We’ll take a look at it in this article. Flask a very simple framework for Python that allows you to build…

As a first in my geography series of blogs, I’ll be writing about the fourteen highest mountains of planet Earth, all located in (and around) the Himalayas, and popularly known as the eight-thousanders. The Himalayas, as we all know, is the home to the highest mountains on Earth. The mountain…