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Mark Lakshmanan

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Retired research physician; married with 2 adult children.

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Post by @marklakshmanan · 4 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · My wife and I had a great time last evening at Smoking Goose Meatery. They held their first holiday party. I hope it is their inaugural holiday party! As expected their charcute…

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Post by @marklakshmanan · 1 link 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · What’s inside the thousands of documents from Epstein estate released by House committee | CNN Politics · The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday released an additional 20,000 p…

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#fluvaccineeffectiveness

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From Hieroglyphs to Emojis: A Visual History of Writing Systems Through the Ages Writing has been an essential tool for communication and record-keeping for thousands of years. From the earliest pictorial representations to the modern-day use of emojis, writing systems have evolve

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Interesting short article on writing systems from ancient to modern time.
#writingsystems

13.11.2025 19:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post by @marklakshmanan · 1 image 💬 3  🔁 0  ❤️ 4 · Please file under figuratively and/or literally: My wife and I got our high dose flu vaccine today. While we enjoy figuratively needling each other, we literally needled each oth…

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13.11.2025 02:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post by @marklakshmanan · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · While Marie Antoinette most likely never said, “Let them eat cake”, I predict “tariff dividends” will become the 21st century equivalent, as this represents a frivolous disregard f…

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11.11.2025 21:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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This is sad. #measles

11.11.2025 19:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post by @marklakshmanan · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Please file under a story worth listening to: A short free story I heard on Morning Edition, from Minnesota Public Radio is well worth the ~ 4 minutes plus internet search time.…

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11.11.2025 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post by @marklakshmanan · 2 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Central Indiana this morning was cold and snowy. While perhaps the weather was more suited to an oatmeal breakfast, I had to have beetroot cured salmon with pickled red onions and…

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10.11.2025 21:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post by @marklakshmanan · 1 video 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · First snow flurries of the ‘25-‘26 winter in the Indianapolis area on 9 Nov 25. No accumulation expected but overnight we expect a hard freeze. Time to think of oatmeal for break…

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Reblog by @delirium1995 💬 0  🔁 344  ❤️ 531 · “In The Plague, Camus wrote about a doctor who doesn't believe in God, redemption, or higher purpose. Yet every day, he shows up to help the dying. Why? Because it's right. Ca…

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08.11.2025 22:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Dictionaries Decide Which Words to Include and Exclude The Evolution of Language and Dictionaries Language is a living, breathing entity that evolves over time, reflecting the cultures, societies, and technologies of the people who speak it. As new words

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08.11.2025 19:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes reading aloud not reading to oneself.

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Blood methylome signatures in children exposed to maternal type 1 diabetes are linked to protection against islet autoimmunity - Nature Metabolism Through an epigenome-wide blood analysis in children of mothers with or without type 1 diabetes, the authors identify epigenetic modifications of type 1 diabetes susceptibility loci through which mate...

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07.11.2025 20:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post by @marklakshmanan · 1 link 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Weird Indiana laws you might not know about · Have you committed one of these strangely specific crimes? Take a browse through some Indiana laws you might not have known were on th…

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07.11.2025 18:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post by @marklakshmanan · 1 link 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Are We Trashing Earth’s Loneliest Spot? · Are We Trashing Earth’s Loneliest Spot? Point Nemo, the most remote location on the planet, is serving as humanity’s cosmic junkyard. Do…

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07.11.2025 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post by @marklakshmanan · 1 link 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · How Einstein and Schrödinger Conspired to Kill a Cat · The rise of fascism shaped Schrödinger’s cat fable.

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07.11.2025 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post by @marklakshmanan · 3 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · We had a great dinner last evening at The Angry Donkey in Michigantown. On their website they list themselves as a French bistro. I agree, a very good one. When one of the kitch…

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07.11.2025 18:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to Edit Your Own Writing for Grammar Without Losing Your Voice Editing your own writing can be a daunting task, especially when it comes to grammar. Many writers fear that in their quest for grammatical perfection, they may lose their unique voice and style. Howe

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Good advice on editing one’s writing.
#editing

06.11.2025 19:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Post by @marklakshmanan · 1 link 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Voting is a stronger determinant of mortality than education: a full-electorate survival analysis with 21-year follow-up · Background Although voting is recognised as a social dete…

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05.11.2025 19:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Big Win in California Propels Newsom

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Post by @saywhat-politics · 2 images 💬 20  🔁 200  ❤️ 373 · JD Vance: “The suffering is going to get a lot worse.”

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Humans Have Upended the World’s Balance of Mammals Humans Have Upended the World’s Balance of Mammals: We have tipped the scale toward humans and livestock, reducing the share of wild mammals

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I am completely surprised by this estimate.

05.11.2025 00:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post by @marklakshmanan · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · I had a great lunch at SGD Dubu restaurant inside Saraga International Grocery. The seafood regular bibimbap was served with three condiments including kimchi. It was so deliciou…

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Post by @makingdonalddrumpfagain · 2 images 💬 26  🔁 148  ❤️ 334

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How Language Shapes the Way We Think and See the World The Power of Language Language is more than just a tool for communication; it is a powerful medium that shapes our thoughts, perceptions, and interactions with the world around us. The fundamental st

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#language

03.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post by @marklakshmanan · 10 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Please file under some seriousness but also under some seriousness aside: Shelley volunteers at the Humane Society for Boone County. So I get to attend fundraisers such as this on…

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03.11.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Reblog by @tattoobuckles-blog · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 28  ❤️ 97

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