Nikhil Anand — Des Moines, Iowa

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I’m Nikhil Anand. I'm a student at the department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University where I'm learning to love and survive both graduate school and New York City as my wife and our diva husky send me good vibes from home in Iowa

Here’s a little more about me and what I’m up to now. I’d love to hear from you and hope you have a most splendid day 🖖🏽

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Some Textile Patterns from the 1920sI photographed these at a 2015 exhibit in Chicago and saved them to perhaps use as funky webpage backgrounds. I still remember them being so beautiful and absolutely hypnotic in person. They were designed in Austria, Paris, Munich, and Russia.
The Magic Soviet SpoonAs told by Dr. Mihaly Mezei, Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, at a seminar at my department. It reminded me of an old joke […] Khruschev and Bulganin, at that time when there was a Soviet Union, were visiting the Queen of England.
How To Clean the Keyboard on Your Mac LaptopA reasonable and normal human being would prepare to clean their laptop’s keyboard by getting together a cleaning cloth (e.g. microfiber) and solution (e.g. isopropyl alcohol). They would then power down their laptop and clean their keyboard (and ma
Tom Waits on DrinkingGiven that his early songs, his voice and his persona were drenched in drink, how hard was it for him to give up? “Oh, you know, it was tough. I went to AA. I’m in the programme. I’m clean and sober. Hooray. But it was a struggle.” Does he miss
The Real Scientific MethodA play on Mr. Lovenstein’s original by Dorsa Amir.
"Bazball - Born in England, Hyped in Pakistan, Humbled in India, and Buried in Australia"The Ashes, one of Cricket’s most hallowed tournaments held every two years between archrivals Australia and England since 1882, proved to be yet another theater of the ongoing embarrassment of English Cricket and its obdurate affection for a strange