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🚨April 26 2023 | Wednesday🚨

Brain Economy
All about rapid innovation and creation driven by technology


Pre Related

1. Triple Planetary Crisis

- given by UNFCCC
- ABC issues: Air Pollution, Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change

2. Zero Shadow Day (ZSD)
- When vertical objects appeared to cast no shadow as sun is at its zenith (directly over the top)
- 2 ZSD for every point b/w Tropics of Cancer & Capricorn
- Why does it happen? With earth's axis tilted at 23.5 degree, Sun 'goes' from north to south and back (Uttarayan and Dakshinayan) This movement put sun 'on top' of the objects twice a year

3. Revise Genome India Project


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. India and the SCO paradox ([Imp] for opinion)
2. Quantum Computers and India [Imp]
3. Brain economy challenge
4. India's first water metro: green, clean boats to feed Kochi's metro rail


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🚨April 27 2023 | Thursday🚨

1. Virtual Digital Assets
- Application of cryptographic means to generate information/code/number/token to be used as 'digital' currency or medium of exchange
- Eg. cryptocurrency, NFT etc.

2. International Seed Day
- April 26 every year
- To recognise importance of seeds
- Dedicated to promote the patent-free seeds, organic food and farmer rights

3. Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd.
- PSE u/ Dept of Atomic Energy; registered u/ Companies Act 1956
- Objective: Operate atomic power plants and implement atomic power projects for electricity generation
- Also responsible to design, construct, commission, and operate nuclear reactors

4. Revise Web 3.0 here

Quote
The sad thing about AI is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence - Jean Baudrillard

Stat
Naxal affected districts down to 90 in 2022 from 200 in early 2000s

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Why Chhattisgarh, why now
2. Google, Meta, Apple, on EU's content rule radar: what are they?

TH
1. Right to marry is not absolute, laws regular marriage, Centre tells SC [Classic arguments by Solicitor-General on page 13]


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🚨April 28 2023 | Friday🚨

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1. Cryosphere
Earth's ice cover including
- Arctic and Antarctic regions (aka sea ice)
- Glaciers & sheets of Greenland and Antarctica (Ice sheet=50k km sq land covered in ice)
- Seasonal snow cover & permafrost (land mass below 0 degree Celsius for >2 years)

2. Some legal definitions
a) Cognizable offence: A case where police officer may make an arrest w/o warrant
b) Zero FIR: Even if offence is not committed within jurisdiction of approached police station, a zero FIR can be filed and transferred to concerned police station

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. State on same-sex marriage [Imp, similar to TH article y'day]
2. Wrestlers in SC: What law says on FIR in sexual harassment cases

TH
1. The threat of rising sea levels [Imp.]


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🚨April 29 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Pre related

1. Gum Arabic
- Insoluble in salts
- Native of north Africa
- Seen in S. America, India and Australia
- Slightly acidic in pH, yellowish in color
- Diverse use in food industry, pharma, cosmetics and others.
- Leading producers: Chad, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan (70% world supply comes from this Sahel region)

Stats
- Health spending stats which went from 1.13% of GDP in 2015 to 1.35% in 2020
- Target: 2.5% of GDP by 2025
- Highest spending: Primary sector > Secondary > Tertiary

Quote
What gets measured gets managed

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The message and the medium [Read this to understand imp of radio as a medium]
2. How India spends on health

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🚨April 30 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Nothing major in newspaper today. Can skip reading

Reading Recommendations

TH
1. H5N1 kills 50m birds, spreads to mammals
2. New study finds a way to massively decarbonise steelmaking
3. Horrors of Kenyan cults [Africa is focus area for UPSC]


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Important message for UPSC CSE WHY community members of 2023 by IPS Rajesh Mohan.

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🚨May 1 2023 | Monday🚨

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1. Ganjam Kewda
- Found b/w rivers Rushikulya and Bahuda in Odisha
- Only flowers of male plant harvested for kewda (female plant has no floral bouquet)
- Screwpine plant, a native of Odisha (with presence in Ganjam district) but found in other places too
- Also found in tropical/subtropical areas of Asia, Africa and Oceania
- Has GI tag and used as an aromatic in food industry and other sectors
- Price of 1 Litre of Kewda oil can be as high as 5 lac

2. Shilabhattarika
- A Sanskrit poetess from ancient India
- believed to be daughter of Chalukyan emperor Pulakeshin II of Badami

3. European Free Trade Association
- estd 1960 as an Intergovernmental org
- Sort of a union of non-EU countries back in the day
- 4 countries: Norway, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Iceland
- 9th largest trading partner of India
- Read more about it in IE Reading Recommendation

4. Checkout Indian response against problem of stray dogs here

Quotes
1. "Learning in not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence" - Abigail Adams
2. "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" - Oppenheimer after discovering atom bomb
3. "Man is but an insignificant creature of creation" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Partners in prosperity [Imp note on EFTA]
2. Relief signs in wheat as monsoon fears cast shadow over rice [Imp]

TH
1. Copper plates bring into focus Shilabhattarika and her poetry (pg4)
2. Tread a new path, one that priortises social justice (note solutions)
3. Stray dogs and poor waste management [Imp]
4. The protests against the refiner project in MH (read just the gist)

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🚨May 2 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Constitutional Punctuality
A demand which requires time based order for people in constitutional positions to discharge their duties.


Pre related
1. Ajeya Warrior
- India-UK military exercise in UK (ongoing)
- 2 exercises were asked in CDS 2023. Added that to CDS Notes in message above this

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Opportunity in crisis
2. The hunger paradox
3. Roadmap to energy justice
4. Grappling with AI
5. In divorce, SC's power to do 'complete justice'

TH
1. China's amended anti-espionage law [Read 'the gist' and 'What will be the impact of amended law' paragraph]
2. The ever expanding medicinal uses and properties of psychedelic substances


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