Himalayan salt is rock salt (halite) mined from the Punjab region of Pakistan.  The salt, which often has a pinkish tint due to trace minerals, is primarily used as a food additive to replace refined table salt but is also used for cooking and food presentation, decorative lamps and spa treatments.  The product is often promoted with unsupported claims that it has health benefits.   See pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan_salt   

When we talk about a pundit, we are referring to someone who comments or opines on a subject.  The word also implies that the person is an authority or expert on a particular subject matter.  But pundit originally referred to someone who was erudite, conducted religious ceremonies, and offered counsel to a king or mayor.  Pundit comes from the Hindi pandit.  And pandit was derived from the Sanskrit pandita, which means “a learned man or scholar.”  The term first enters English in the late 1600s, referring to a court official in Colonial India who advised English judges about Hindu law.  https://www.dictionary.com/e/pundit/   

How important is the citric acid cycle?  So important that it has not one, not two, but three different names in common usage today.  The name we'll primarily use here, the citric acid cycle, refers to the first molecule that forms during the cycle's reactions—citrate, or, in its protonated form, citric acid.  However, you may also hear this series of reactions called the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, for the three carboxyl groups on its first two intermediates, or the Krebs cycle, after its discoverer, Hans Krebs.  Whatever you prefer to call it, the citric cycle is a central driver of cellular respiration.  See graphics at https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/cellular-respiration-and-fermentation/pyruvate-oxidation-and-the-citric-acid-cycle/a/the-citric-acid-cycle

Hans Adolf Krebs, a German biochemist, was born Aug. 25, 1900.  In 1953, Krebs received a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine, for discovering the citric acid cycle, also called the Krebs cycle.  The citric acid cycle is an essential metabolic pathway in all living things, whereby organisms convert sugars, fats, and protein into energy-storing compounds.  In 2015, Krebs’ Nobel prize medal was sold at auction (for $350,000) to fund a trust fund to aid students and chemists who have had to flee their home countries.  That seems to us like the best of all possible uses for a Nobel prize medal.  Dr. William B. Ashworth, Jr.  https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/hans-krebs  

On March 1, 1856, Lewis Carroll was born—at least in print.  On that date, mathematics scholar Charles Lutwidge Dodgson used the pseudonym for the first time, to sign his poem “Solitude,” which was published in a short-lived comic journal called The Train, edited by Edmund Yates.  In fact, it was Yates who chose the name Lewis Carroll.  Until then, Dodgson had been using “B.B.” to sign his creative work, but Yates rejected it.  Dodgson suggested “Dares,” derived from his birthplace, Daresbury, but Yates didn’t like that either.  So Dodgson came back with more options:  Edgar Cuthwellis, Edgar U.C. Westhill (both of which were anagrams of his name) and Lewis Carroll, which he had arrived at by translating his first two names into Latin and back again, and then reversing them.  So Charles Lutwidge became Carolus Ludovicus became Lewis Carroll.  Yates, obviously, picked the latter option.  Literary Hub  Feb. 26, 2023   

As early as 1892, Nikola Tesla created a basic design for radio.  On November 8, 1898 he patented a radio controlled robot-boat.  Tesla used this boat which was controlled by radio waves in the Electrical Exhibition in 1898, Madison Square Garden.  Tesla's robot-boat was constructed with an antenna, which transmitted the radio waves coming from the command post where Tesla was standing.  Those radio waves were received by a radio sensitive device called coherer, which transmitted the radio waves into mechanical movements of the propellers on the boat.  Tesla changed the boat's direction, with manually operated controls on the command post.   Since this was the first application of radio waves, it made front page news, in America, at that time.  Guglielmo Marconi claimed all the first patents for radio, something originally developed by Tesla.  Nikola Tesla tried to prove that he was the creator of radio but wasn’t credited until 1943, when Marconi's patents were deemed invalid.  https://www.teslasociety.com/radio.htm

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