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12 2021 | Spectrum | Volume 14 Number 4
12 2020 | Spectrum | Volume 14 Number 4
Shreya Khera What if We Were in a Nuclear Winter?

M KAVIN RAMNATH
STAFF REPORTER and respect. There is a wide
emotional diversity throughout
“It is a truth universally the book. While Elizabeth learns Nuclear winter, a topic which
acknowledged, that a single the repercussions of hasty many may dismiss as “fictional”,
is actually a very real possibility
man in possession of a good judgments, Darcy understands in today’s world. The nuclear
fortune, must be in want of that the world is not always weapons that mankind possesses
a wife.” going to be at his feet.
today are a hundred times more
Pride and Prejudice, a classic The book is filled with witty powerful than “Fat Man”,
romance novel published lines such as “I must learn to be the nuclear bomb dropped
by Jane Austen in the early content with being happier than on Nagasaki; the devastating
1800s is nothing less than I deserve”. The novel makes it effects of which have lingered
revolutionary. Considered as into the heart of every reader onto the present day.
one of the most famous female that opens it. Melancholic and With many nations armed Nuclear winter as depicted in ‘Metro 2033 Redux’
writers of all time, Jane Austen captivating, it shows growth and with such dangerous weapons,
revitalized the characters. Strong, development. As the imperfect humans are the creators of the are several books, movies
opinionated, and firm, they characters learn from their biggest threat to mankind yet. and video games, such as the Several modern day
broke stereotypes. “It is a truth mistakes and grow, they find Modern technology eliminates ‘Metro’ and the ‘Fallout’ series, studies have shown
universally acknowledged that new ways to steal your heart. the need of a bomber aircraft to which provide speculations on that a nuclear winter
a single man in possession of a It shows a realistic depiction of drop the bomb; intercontinental how the world may turn out
good fortune must be in want for lives and is a must-read. missiles can simply traverse to be; but let us not depend on can cause a massive
a wife”, a quote acknowledged across the globe to hit its target. such fictional sources. Several change in climate
by many, is a call-out for the Retaliation will lead to an all- modern day studies have shown
heteronormative idea of the out nuclear war, plunging the that a nuclear winter can cause patterns, lead to
“need” to marry and start a world into a nuclear winter. a massive change in climate accelerated ozone
family to gain a certain validation patterns, lead to accelerated layer depletion and an
from society. Radioactivity may cause
mutations in man and other ozone layer depletion and an enhanced greenhouse
The book revolves around creatures, possibly transforming enhanced greenhouse effect.
Ms. Elizabeth Bennet, a them into dangerous abominations. People exposed to such nuclear effect
strong opinionated woman, People will be forced to live in radiations will suffer radiation world shifting to other kinds
and Fitzwilliam Darcy, an underground bunkers to shield sickness, followed by a gruesome of warfare, such as economic
aristocrat. Mr. Darcy is an aloof themselves from the radioactivity. death. Children born to the and cyber warfare, the prospect
bachelor, who fails to express Radioactive dust will cloud survivors may also be affected. of using nuclear weapons is
his feelings. On the other end, Pride and Prejudice – the atmosphere, blotching out The best way to be safe will be reducing. Hopefully, mankind
Ms. Bennet is a woman of pride a look into the 1800’s the sun for several decades, to wait it out in a well-stocked will never have to face such a

killing most plant life. There bunker. However, with the nightmare.
The first Indian female doctor
with a degree in western

medicine-Life of Anandibai Joshi Revolution in a Chip

SHASHANK IYENGAR point in the life of Anandibai, SUMISHA MOHAN
who then decided to become a
As the famous saying goes, physician. There was very little Apple’s M1 Mac Books
“There is no force equal to a to no support by the society and released amidst fervent
woman determined to rise”. It is husbands supporting their wives anticipation and the verdict
with such impel that Anadibhai to pursue their education was is in: they have surpassed all
Joshi had risen above all odds just as rare as fire rainbows in expectations. When Apple
in the late nineteenth century the sky. However, Gopalrao unveiled plans for in-house silicon
to establish her as the first was one such exception of a that would greatly improve both
female Indian physician. She fire rainbow. She continued to the performance and the battery
was also the first woman in pursue her education in Sanskrit life of their Macs, they were
India to complete her studies and English and later her dream met with as many sceptics as
in western medicine from the of being a physician. She left for supporters. In terms of numbers,
United States. Anandibai’s rich America to learn medicine in the power-efficient M1 processor
legacy has inspired many women utmost detail with a missionary delivers 40% better performance Many third-party apps, however, achieve for a long time. These
to pursue the field of medicine from Philadelphia named Mrs on a popular CPU benchmark are coded for Intel processors in-house chips will grant Apple
in India and the United States. Carpenter. Anandibai completed and 70% longer battery life for only. To provide compatibility complete control over both their
She was born on 31st March her two-year course in medicine web browsing when compared with these apps, Apple provides software and the hardware,
1865 in Kalyan, India. The at the age of 19 and graduated with an Intel-based Mac Book an emulator (called Rosetta 2) allow the company to exercise
norm back in the days was to with a degree in MD in 1886 released earlier just this year. that translates from x86 to Arm, more freedom over the design,
get children married at young despite her deteriorating health. but on the M1 these emulated development and launch cycle
ages and Anandibai was also Tragically, Anandibai lost her However, changing from apps run at a lower speed or in as well as further their mission
not spared by this system. She life to tuberculosis and died at Intel’s x86 instruction set to some cases, not at all. However, of vertical integration. Apple’s
was married at the age of 9 to the young age of 22. Wonder Arm creates software problems. developers are currently working gamble has paid off and their
Gopalrao Joshi who was twenty women like Anandibai Joshi Apple has had to port its Mac OS to develop apps which will run Arm-based Macs have left
years elder to her. At the age of have proved that educating operating system along with all natively on Apple Silicon and the Intel-AMD duopoly in the
14, she gave birth to a baby boy, women is educating an entire of its first-party apps to run on this roadblock will be removed dust. Microsoft will most likely
unfortunately, the child died due generation. Her legacy will Arm. These native apps take full fairly soon. With the M1 chip, follow suit which will lead to
to the lack of medical care; this continue to live in the hearts advantage of the M1’s superior Apple has finally done what tech a burst of innovation in the
incident proved to be a turning of many. performance and battery life. companies have been trying to long-stagnant PC space.