Pustam Raut (पुस्तम राउत) 🇳🇵

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Linguistic maps
Nepal: Land of the Giants.
How to say Fish in Languages of Southeast Asia 🐟
Progression of changes to muscle function with advancing age.
Thulagi Glacial Lake.
Ultraviolet light helps to reveal soft tissue preserved along with the bones of an Archaeopteryx fossil at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Delaney Drummond/Field Museum
Moor Studio/istock.com
25 years of Wikipedia.
A Visual Guide to Vector Calculus
Samuel Velasco / Quanta Magazine
The seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy is Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Good morning, sunshine. Science Volume 390, Issue 6779: 2025 Breakthrough of the Year
Oxygen // Getty Images
Antonio Iacobelli // Getty Images
MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY // Getty Images.
Map of Marco Polo’s Travels, 1271 - 1295.
The Eastern Ghats region faces mounting pressures from climate variability, including erratic monsoons and intense rainfall events that have disrupted agriculture and increased crop failures. Photo: iStock
The Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet. Dong Zhixiong/Xinhua/Getty Images
Syukuro Manabe
The Okavango River in Southern Africa.
Mapping the Writing Systems of the World.
Samye Tsoling Gonpa, along with the bon stupa.
Ibn Battuta’s Travels, 1325-1354.
Nepal's forest area in 1992 vs 2016.
Biomes in the world.
Anatomy of the Earth.
Mark Russinovich, Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Dave Cutler.
Passkeys
The Chenab Rail Bridge is 359 m above the river bed and has a 467 m single arch span across the mighty Chenab River, making it the highest Railway Arch Bridge in the world. This iconic bridge soars 359 metres above the bed of the River Chenab. Attribution: Konkan Railway Corporation Limited, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano
Romania's president-elect Nicușor Dan and his IMO performance.
The Tethys realm, suture zones and India–Arabia–Eurasia collision.
6 years of contributions to Google Maps!
Temi Tea Garden, South Sikkim, in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim (Indian Himalayan Region). Credit: Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0
Africa’s vegetation cycles.
Cost per kg of payload (LEO - Low Earth Orbit) for human spaceflight.
Mandelbrot set.
Rhododendron flowers bloom in Nepal. | Aditya Pal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sampling 200 solutions from Gemini 1.5 Pro and having it self-select the seemingly best one (without knowing the correct answer) beats o1-Preview.
The length of tasks (measured by how long they take human professionals) that generalist frontier model agents can complete autonomously with 50% reliability has been doubling approximately every 7 months for the last 6 years. The shaded region represents 95% CI calculated by hierarchical bootstrap over task families, tasks, and task attempts.
The letter 'g' (ga) in the ancient Brahmi script compared to some of the scripts which are derived from it.
Statue of Śiva Naṭarāja at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
NVIDIA Computing Power
Best proof of tectonic force in photo