Badri Sunderarajan

Badri lives on a farm in rural Tamilnadu, India. He prefers low tech to high, but still programs when he's not writing letters. Reading is his default state of being (often with a cat on his back).

A Promotion

When chess moves are logical but don’t make sense.

Snipette Quarterly Review: Bibliography, Email updates, and our first anniversary

We are now officially one year old!

Infectious Cures

Infectious Cures

How does a river fight disease? By making your illness catch a cold.

Mumbling Music

How do you pick up a tune, and hold it in your hand?

Defining Planets

Defining Planets

First there were six. Then there were nine. And then there were eight. Now, are there 110?

The Purple Sky

Light, sight, and why things may not be the same colours they look.

Types of Typos

When solutions end up creating more problems.

Cells

The little creatures that rule the world.

Travelling Trees

Travelling Trees

They may seem still. But actually, they’re always on the move.

Interplanetary Internet

Delay Tolerant Networking

Interplanetary Internet

Will Martian astronauts be able to load YouTube?

Rover Control

4G is coming to the Moon. Can it be used for spacecraft on Mars?

Bus Rapid Transit

Rapid Buses

Travel is fast, on the roadway that has no cars.

Crossed Wiring

In your telephone-line, it enables eavesdropping. In your brain, it could be the mechanism behind metaphors.

Common Relativity

Common Relativity

There’s General Relativity and Special Relativity. And then, there’s the relativity we encounter every day.

Speaking to Computers

Speaking to Computers

Computers are good at doing their job, but you should remember to tell them to do it.

Mars’ Missing Magnetosphere

Mars’ Missing Magnetosphere

If Mars was magnetic, could Life have lived?

Falling Moon

Why does the moon stay up in the sky? Because it’s always falling.

Electronic Paper

Electronic Paper

It was first invented in the 1970s. They’re still working on it today.

It Happened To Me

WhoseApp?

Why you may get WhatsApp messages from people you’ve never heard of before.

Snipette Year-End Review: 100 followers, and a Writers’ Programme!

Happy New Year!

Sleeping Fish

When you’re inside water, sleeping is not so easy.

The Littlest Language

The Littlest Language

What you speak is what you think. Or is it the other way round?

Ocean Lights

Fireflies blink their lights. In the ocean, it’s more dramatic.