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Jayan Kandathil

@jayankandathil.bsky.social

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Naturalized Canadian - Ottawa, Canada. Born and raised in Kerala, India. @jayankandathil@mastodon.social on Mastodon. @jayankandathil on Twitter.

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Launch event for Chinese company Hypershell's 'Halo' exoskeleton, available for purchase in November 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ZP...

Hypershell Halo Official Launch Event | Flagship Full-Leg Exoskeleton for All-Terrain Mobility

YouTube video by Hypershell

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ildar Farkhatdinov (Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Engineering (Robotics and Mechatronics) at King's College London on exoskeletons theconversation.com/the-dawn-of-...

theconversation.com

The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton

Powered robotic devices designed to enhance the wearer’s physical capabilities are being developed for an increasing range of uses.

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The cost economics of Apple's iPhones www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoQx...

The $1,199 iPhone Doesn’t Cost Apple What You Think

YouTube video by Motive & Scale

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An Iranian woman documents everyday life in Tehran (Iran) youtu.be/c1XKBBmUSNQ

What Life in Iran is ACTUALLY Like 🇮🇷 | Living Alone in Tehran

YouTube video by Life with Nazanin

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Never forget... Dolly Parton was one of the people who gave us the Moderna COVID vaccine.

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Excellent interview with the CEO of American network security company [Palo Alto Networks]. He thinks Anthropic's Mythos and others could cause companies to rewrite most of today's software because of its discovery/exposure of undiscovered bugs and vulnerabilities www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v_r...

Nikesh Arora: $300B, 40 Acquisitions, Still Paranoid

YouTube video by Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Good [The China-Global South Project] (CGSP) discussion on the current (bad) state of India-China relations www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc48... between editor-in-chief Eric Olander and Sushant Singh, a lecturer in South Asian studies at Yale University

China's View of India Has Changed. Is New Delhi Ready?

YouTube video by The China-Global South Project (CGSP)

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

On Casio’s new MIP (memory in pixel) display for its watches youtu.be/jLAeJpin1Ns

Casio’s MIP G-Shock Might Be the Best Watch Ever - IN DEPTH REVIEW

YouTube video by Just the Watch

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The United States built nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that can stay out at sea for years, but the humans operating it just can't do that www.youtube.com/watch?v=__cX...

Sailors Try To JUMP OVERBOARD As USS Lincoln MORALE COLLAPSES

YouTube video by Breaking Points

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

An Australian (Sydney Morning Herald) take on India's student movement www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymGQ...

How Gen Z in India turned an insult into a political uprising

YouTube video by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Interview with Pawan Chandana, the co-founder of India’s private rocket company [Skyroot Aerospace]. He started with ISRO, the Indian equivalent of NASA. He says that the biggest bottleneck in the space industry today is the lack of adequate launch capacity youtu.be/IdQpu3aFoRY

Skyroot Aerospace: ‘A Leap Of Faith’, Just In Time || On The Shop Floor

YouTube video by Bharat Shakti

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

About Sanzo Wada of the [Japan Colour Research Institute] youtu.be/Pp3IPMLAf7Q

The man behind the viral color dictionary

YouTube video by bungu

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

How motorcycles from India are beginning to dominate the market in south america with Bajaj, Royal Enfield and Hero leading youtu.be/Uu512483dCA

Why The ENTIRE Latin America Rides This $2,000 Motorcycle (And America REFUSES To)

YouTube video by Tech Motor Show

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The bio-mechanics of exoskeletons youtu.be/OcAElSkKj2Q

Surgeon Tries Vastnaut One Exoskeleton | Here's What I Learned!

YouTube video by Dr. Chris Raynor | Not Your Everyday Ortho

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The holy cows of Italy youtu.be/wYkfiTenjhU

How the Mafia’s cattle are terrorizing Italian villages | DW Documentary

YouTube video by DW Documentary

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Those in-person, closed-door meetings that last longer than an hour - here’s one reason why decision-making gets worse in those blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/c...

blog.mikebowler.ca

The bottleneck might be the air in the room

You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Beautiful wildlife safari video shot in 6K using a Nikon Z6 III in southern India’s [Bandipur National Park]. Narration is in Malayalam, no English subtitles. However, animals/birds are identified in English youtu.be/Uxtr51LFnc8

Inside Bandipur National Park | Animal paradise of South India | Karnataka JLR Forest Safari in 6K

YouTube video by Pikolins Vibe

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The Royal Canadian Air Force’s [436 Transport Squadron], originally formed in India during World War II (late in 1944) to supply troops and materiel to the Allied 14th Army in Burma youtu.be/uwf3T7JhhaU

Anytime, Anywhere | A look at 436 Transport Squadron and the CC-130J Super Hercules

YouTube video by Royal Canadian Air Force

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s ancestors immigrated to Canada from Aughagower in county Mhaigh Eo (May-O) in 1925, part of the broader wave of post‑independence Irish emigration from the west of Ireland www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuvw...

Canadian PM Carney says retracing Irish roots 'a great thrill' | RTÉ News

YouTube video by RTÉ News

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Bloomberg interview by Emily Chang with the Amodei brother-sister duo (Dario & Daniela) that run AI company Anthropic youtu.be/v1wZwxY3CMg

Inside Anthropic, the $965 Billion AI Juggernaut | The Circuit

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The CBC’s satellite truck setting up in Ottawa for tomorrow’s (Jun 08) installation of Canada’s new Governor-General Louise Arbour

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A Muslim man in Kerala, India who has learnt Hebrew and has become a historian of Jews in Kerala. Interview setting is a synagogue in Kochi originally built in 1200 AD youtu.be/MhpoaX7AFD8

Muslim Calligrapher Studying Kerala's Jewish History | Ep 8: SAGA with Manu S Pillai | ARPO

YouTube video by ARPO (Archival and Research Project) | ആർപ്പോ

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A rare sane American voice youtu.be/GjgYdurDEmA

A Message from COL. Doug Macgregor: “All For What”

YouTube video by Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Ferrari Luce EV and its design leads, one of them being Jony Ive, formerly of Apple youtu.be/K-o0r2zSgCE

The First All Electric Ferrari, explained by its designers

YouTube video by Cleo Abram

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Detailed blog entry by @akankshawrites (Twitter/X) on Kottayam's (Kerala, India) 'Aksharam Museum of Letters, Literature and Culture' thedependablewriter.com/aksharam-mus...

thedependablewriter.com

Aksharam Museum Kottayam, Kerala | My Review | Visitor Guide

My review of the unique & high-tech Aksharam Museum Kottayam, Kerala. Inside Kerala’s Museum of Letters, Literature and Culture, India’s first language museum.

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Quality variance among 18650 lithium ion batteries from different manufacturers is very wide youtu.be/-Y23nfAOiXQ

The Surprising Flaws in 18650 Lithium-Ion Batteries

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

A very good and simple explanation of how electric motors in EVs actually work www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxKT...

A Brief Explanation of Permanent Magnet AC Motors

YouTube video by ElectrArc240

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Wired magazine on Russia’s low-earth-orbit (LEO) (800 KM) broadband Internet satellite constellation ‘Rassvet’ www.wired.com/story/meet-r...

Meet Rassvet, Russia’s Answer to Starlink

With the launch of the first 16 satellites, Russia begins construction of a network for satellite internet that aims to cover the entire country by 2030. But getting there won’t be easy.

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

arstechnica.com

Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work

Intentional errors can be useful.

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Germany’s [Deutsche Welle News] on Catholicism enjoying a revival among young people youtu.be/6evQHIbIRJg

Why the Catholic church is seeing a new wave of converts, from the US to Africa | DW News

YouTube video by DW News

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Ancient Kerala (and the port of Muziris) probably ran a large trade surplus against the Roman empire (gold for pepper, ivory). Talk at [Kerala Literature Festival] by British historian @willdalrymple.bsky.social Also, Buddhism as an export Indian soft power without violence youtu.be/i4laSl9ZEeU

Kerala Was the Center of the Ancient World | William Dalrymple | KLF2026

YouTube video by DC Books

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

American rapper reviews the Lego videos put out by [Explosive Media], Iran's digital agency www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIUB...

IRAN GOES KENDRICK ON TRUMP?! | Rapper Reacts to Iran's Lego Diss Tracks (First Reaction)

YouTube video by Knox Hill

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

thenarwhal.ca/space-junk-f... A new problem for humanity - space junk from decommissioned low-earth-orbit satellites. Main culprit is SpaceX but others soon to join the club

SpaceX satellites half the size of pickup trucks are falling from the sky | The Narwhal

As space junk accumulates, astronomer Sam Lawler explains why we should be concerned about the rapid proliferation of private satellites in low orbit

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Interview by Vishnu Som of India's NDTV with Canada's High-Commissioner to India Christopher Cooter who's been in this role since Sep 2025. Vishnu has a BA (History & Political Science) and MA (Mass Communication) from Ottawa's Carleton University @carleton.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBtP...

Canadian Envoy Exclusive | 'Ready To Move Forward': Canadian Envoy On India-Canada Reset

YouTube video by NDTV

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Why are comparable Canadian flights more expensive than American flights - spoiler, it’s the fees youtu.be/4Z_xLJvOjdM

Why Is Flying In Canada So Expensive?

YouTube video by Andriyas Redel

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The CBC's Ian Hanomansing interviews Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net on his concept of 'enshittification' www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCVU...

The ‘enshittification’ of the internet, explained

YouTube video by CBC News: The National

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The story of Singapore’s [Creative Labs], the maker of Sound Blaster sound cards youtu.be/VTPa6wRECw0

Singapore’s Sound Card Hero

YouTube video by Asianometry

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A consequence of the American/Israeli attack on Iran that no one talks about yet shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-nitrog...

shanakaanslemperera.substack.com

THE NITROGEN TRAP

How a 21-Mile Strait Threatens the Nutrient System Feeding Half the World

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Jay Leno reviews Tesla’s Semi (electric tractor). Franz von Holzhausen still puts out great designs. youtu.be/BCXSq1dmEB8

Jay Leno Drives the 500-Mile Tesla Semi: The Death of Diesel? | Jay Leno's Garage

YouTube video by Jay Leno's Garage

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa2k...

The Ocean of Numbers: How India Shaped the Way We Calculate

YouTube video by Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

On the Malayali (Keralam, India) mathematician [Madhava of Sangamagrama] 1340-1425 from modern-day Irinjalakuda (ഇരിങ്ങാലക്കുട) who wrote down his work in Sanskrit verse on palm-leaf (താളിയോല) manuscript youtu.be/ETeBLxn3Nz0

Ep 4: Sangamagrama Madhava ( with Eng subtitle) | Ft. Litty Chacko | SAGA with Manu S PIllai | ARPO

YouTube video by ARPO (Archival and Research Project) | ആർപ്പോ

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

According to Theodore Postol (Professor Emeritus, MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society) the US ‘Patriot’ and Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ missile defence systems have very low intercept rates youtu.be/gbQI_IYz6uM

Ted Postol: Fraud of Missile Defence Exposed in Iran War

YouTube video by Glenn Diesen

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

30-minute Monocle interview in Japan with Canadian prime minister Mark Carney youtu.be/j2gyqs-AN8A

Prime Minister Mark Carney in conversation with Monocle

YouTube video by Monocle Films

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Mud house construction in Kerala, India youtu.be/QO0KG3iemSI

Inside The Mudhouse Marayoor - A Sustainable Retreat in the Heart of Nature | ArchPro

YouTube video by ArchPro.

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Energy storage using flywheels, but they lose 5-20% of their stored energy every hour youtu.be/Z95t-f-0IjI

How 40-Ton Spinning Wheels Are Saving the Power Grid

YouTube video by Undecided with Matt Ferrell

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

United States-based 'Miss GoElectric' YouTube channel's weekly EV news this Sunday headlines with new Canadian EV incentives www.youtube.com/watch?v=EytX...

The Current : Weekly EV News Ep #101 Feb 8, 2026

YouTube video by Miss GoElectric

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Excellent travel documentary on Oman youtu.be/_VhlzsJYGMw

OMAN TRAVEL DOCUMENTARY | The Pearl of Arabia 🇴🇲

YouTube video by Lucas T. Jahn

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

This video from a British tech YouTuber does a good job explaining the multi-link operation (MLO) feature of WiFi 7 that uses the 2.4, 5.0 and 6.0 GHz frequency bands youtu.be/6r0iAVP9D2U

I Tried WiFi 7 for a week... Here’s what I learned!

YouTube video by TechFlow

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Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Interesting to see a half-page advertisement for books in the print edition of a Canadian newspaper - this one by @cormorantbooks.bsky.social

Jayan Kandathil @jayankandathil.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

How low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite-based broadband Internet service works (SpaceX Starlink example) youtu.be/b_uYOE_gMTQ

Starlink Technology Overview

YouTube video by Phil Trubey