<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Cosmic Treehouse]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Cosmic Treehouse]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:41:04 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Sets of Impossible Size and the Birth of Measure Theory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone understands the concept of a measure or size. Some things are longer, some are shorter. Some things heavy, some light. If I show...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/sets-of-impossible-size-and-the-birth-of-measure-theory</link><guid isPermaLink="false">608e300ee1b2220041f6f297</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2021 05:18:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b12801_e442774fcd304c06b3383c0d1113c0df~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_383,h_462,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Muni S. Pydi</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Twisted Road to Gene Therapy]]></title><description><![CDATA[As people in many countries are rolling up their sleeves to get their COVID ‘shots’, there is much reason to celebrate medical science...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/the-twisted-road-to-gene-therapy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">607c613c5c07990015508b7b</guid><category><![CDATA[Bioengineering]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:03:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b12801_dda8f3457c444f5ea2756f1a71e40f34~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_800,h_533,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charu Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evolution of Spotify Music]]></title><description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: Reads better in desktop mode.]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/exploratory-data-analysis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6071098404039f001585b91d</guid><category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2021 13:02:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c9bdcd_1672c16b2d6847228a5b0ce0bb3a88eb~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Upasana Raval</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Serendipitous Discovery: Electrifying bugs in the Mud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aarhus is a beautiful city sitting on the east coast of the Jutland Peninsula, Denmark. Founded in the 8th century when the Vikings were...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/a-serendipitous-discovery-electrifying-bugs-in-the-mud</link><guid isPermaLink="false">605767fa4e61b60015b9003e</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:34:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b12801_101d21ca25b74cae8cd874a923301870~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Vu Tran</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[One world, multiple umwelts: Understanding sensation and perception across animal kingdom]]></title><description><![CDATA[As living beings, we are constantly interacting with our environment and modifying our behavior in response to it. For instance, if it is...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/one-world-multiple-umwelts-understanding-sensation-and-perception-across-animal-kingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="false">604ccbd601ee300057bb262a</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2021 14:57:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b12801_d2ad1460c2994fbbbb156005bad51271~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_750,h_487,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lata Kalra</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmic Chemistry: How are molecules formed in the cold space clouds?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whenever we hear the word space- we think of stars, planets, and lots and lots of vacuum. The word “vacuum”, as a young student, was...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/cosmic-chemistry-how-are-molecules-formed-in-the-cold-space-clouds</link><guid isPermaLink="false">603a899bc77a1000176d8110</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 18:19:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b12801_f547b028810142e5a92d0c0b2c230303~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_939,h_539,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Divita Gupta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not so elementary, my dear: the story of how the elements were formed in the cosmos]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the key questions that we have always asked ourselves is — what are we, and everything around us, made of? Our curiosity has led...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/not-so-elementary-my-dear-the-story-of-how-the-elements-were-formed-in-the-cosmos</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60308152441e340018db0a91</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 05:43:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/152b00_91035a87cf9d409ba3177fedb0cdc729~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_644,h_562,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Amol Patwardhan</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mathematician’s Apology]]></title><description><![CDATA[In ‘A Mathematician’s Apology’, the renowned English mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy presents an eloquent and poignant apology for a...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/a-mathematician-s-apology</link><guid isPermaLink="false">602013d2e281f20017148ef7</guid><category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2021 16:25:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b12801_c2951e417c314064aaae820953bd4e94~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_254,h_400,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Muni S. Pydi</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Topology of Polyhedra, Coffee Mugs, and Neurons]]></title><description><![CDATA[The study of shapes, angles, and lines came naturally to us. The Egyptians in 3,000 BC. built the pyramids, surveyed the land and mapped...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/the-topology-of-polyhedra-coffee-mugs-and-neurons</link><guid isPermaLink="false">601d1c259ac3d6001746cc19</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2021 16:32:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b12801_be8a62fd9b76462fa5bd320e01b590c2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_669,h_558,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tejasi Bhatnagar</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animal Research – A Moral Quandary ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of laboratory mice and rats have been sacrificed for the scientific advancement. 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You can walk forward and backward along this line,...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/twist-and-shout-numbers-rotations-and-all-that</link><guid isPermaLink="false">600306153e10b90017287944</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2021 16:05:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b12801_df735c2c59384b62bab2d9afed227771~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_929,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anup Anand Singh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Siddhartha Mukherjee's book is a definitive magnum opus on cancer. 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Pydi</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Diseases Be Poor and Rich?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I. Funding bias in medical research There used to be a time when science was as easy and as accessible (though not all of it) as school...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/can-diseases-be-poor-and-rich</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5fea347a09881a0017b15b61</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:57:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b12801_80411bbf8845463bbce26559534ef260~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_764,h_544,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shruti Singla</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, do YOU know what's in your COVID vaccine?]]></title><description><![CDATA[As 2020 blurs into 2021, the one thing that has brought cheer and hope at the end of this gloomy year is headlines screaming "the COVID...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/so-do-you-know-what-s-in-your-covid-vaccine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5fde40a6d45f7a001724c6f0</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2020 18:50:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b12801_0009f4cb6e6845e7afc048e026190f22~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_460,h_375,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Swati Kataria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing The Head of State: US vs India]]></title><description><![CDATA[India and the US are among the biggest democracies of the world and have been run by their respective constitutions for a long time (centuri]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/choosing-the-head-of-state-us-vs-india</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5fd51cba1590fa001849ed9c</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2020 02:38:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/31cbf2_5bed3012175e4b3ca0bc14b2209a5d4a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Arpit Agrawal</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxi/Mini-mize through Linear Programming ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I often struggle to explain the field of Operations Research (OR) and the role of an OR professional in industry to my friends and family...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/maxi-mini-mize-through-linear-programming</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5fcafcd5e59ad30017118482</guid><category><![CDATA[Mathematics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2020 13:00:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c9bdcd_1ac6ab3812c6449bb38c0873ed06b1a6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Upasana Raval</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purpose in life: a historical account of teleological ideas in biology]]></title><description><![CDATA[I. In an 1802 book titled Natural Theology, the English clergyman William Paley laid out an argument for the existence of God founded on...]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/purpose-in-life-a-historical-account-of-teleological-ideas-in-biology</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5fc5218f9be0d80017a9d675</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 12:48:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/042ec9_8e1f08e345754a989c80fbc35c9e945b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_616,h_734,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Prachi Pande</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life 3.0 - Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[People have often been skeptical about the whole idea of artificial intelligence all thanks to the mainstream media and the terminator....]]></description><link>https://www.thecosmictreehouse.com/post/life-3-0-being-human-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5fba0724bab06700186048e3</guid><category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2020 18:54:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b12801_4acbd4ed66104fe48f1d4fbcf59e0c43~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_325,h_499,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Amey Panse</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>