"Some Assembly Required"
Flat–pack furniture was once a small segment of the market. Those who were up for a challenge could visit IKEA and test their wits against the evil geniuses who wrote their instruction manuals. It all worked out, provided you were attentive to every tiny detail and had the patience of a saint.
https://www.readersdigest.in/humour/story-some--assembly--required-127729
Flat–pack furniture was once a small segment of the market. Those who were up for a challenge could visit IKEA and test their wits against the evil geniuses who wrote their instruction manuals. It all worked out, provided you were attentive to every tiny detail and had the patience of a saint.
https://www.readersdigest.in/humour/story-some--assembly--required-127729
Reader's Digest
"Some Assembly Required"
Misadventures with do-it-yourself tasks!
Why 'Love' Means "Nothing"
A word on the history of love as a word for a strong feeling of affection: complicated. So please excuse our shying away from matters of the heart to engage in a different love affair—a courtly one. It will not be dragged out; we are only investigating love meaning "nothing.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-origin-of-love-in-tennis
A word on the history of love as a word for a strong feeling of affection: complicated. So please excuse our shying away from matters of the heart to engage in a different love affair—a courtly one. It will not be dragged out; we are only investigating love meaning "nothing.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-origin-of-love-in-tennis
Merriam-Webster
Why 'Love' Means "Nothing"
It's just the beginning. Keep scoring points.
As India grows older, a secret shame emerges: Elders abandoned by their children
GARHMUKTESHWAR, India (AP) — They were found in gutters, on streets, in bushes. They were boarded on trains, deserted in hospitals, dumped at temples. They were sent away for being sick or outliving paychecks or simply growing too old.
https://apnews.com/article/india-abandoned-elderly-population-aging-44701de4079bf8bca01cfa3217fdf1c8
GARHMUKTESHWAR, India (AP) — They were found in gutters, on streets, in bushes. They were boarded on trains, deserted in hospitals, dumped at temples. They were sent away for being sick or outliving paychecks or simply growing too old.
https://apnews.com/article/india-abandoned-elderly-population-aging-44701de4079bf8bca01cfa3217fdf1c8
AP News
As India ages, a secret shame emerges: Elders abandoned by their children
In its traditions, religious tenets and laws, India has cemented the belief that it is a child’s duty to care for his aging parents.
A Race Well-Limped
Newsletter 2023-06-12
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Newsletter 2023-06-12
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A Race Well-Limped
Newsletter 2023-06-12
The Sound of (Silence)
My mouth served me terribly as a student, but it set me up perfectly for a career in radio. In 2003, I launched a talk show on an AM station in the GTA. I would ask people about their religious beliefs and the role faith played in their lives.
https://torontolife.com/memoir/i-took-a-three-month-vow-of-silence-and-walked-nearly-1000-kilometres/
My mouth served me terribly as a student, but it set me up perfectly for a career in radio. In 2003, I launched a talk show on an AM station in the GTA. I would ask people about their religious beliefs and the role faith played in their lives.
https://torontolife.com/memoir/i-took-a-three-month-vow-of-silence-and-walked-nearly-1000-kilometres/
Toronto Life
The Sound of (Silence)
After 16 years as a radio host, talking and talking had made me miserable. How shutting up saved my life
The Luxury Trap - History’s Biggest Fraud - The Agricultural Revoluti…
The rise of farming was a very gradual affair spread over centuries and millennia. A band of Homo sapiens gathering mushrooms and nuts and hunting deer and rabbit did not all of a sudden settle in a permanent village, ploughing fields, sowing wheat and carrying water from the river.
https://archive.ph/hz9s9
The rise of farming was a very gradual affair spread over centuries and millennia. A band of Homo sapiens gathering mushrooms and nuts and hunting deer and rabbit did not all of a sudden settle in a permanent village, ploughing fields, sowing wheat and carrying water from the river.
https://archive.ph/hz9s9
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Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?
Now seen as early evidence of prehistoric worship, the hilltop site was previously shunned by researchers as nothing more than a medieval cemetery.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/
Now seen as early evidence of prehistoric worship, the hilltop site was previously shunned by researchers as nothing more than a medieval cemetery.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/
Smithsonian Magazine
Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?
Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization
What can we learn from fraud and folly?
The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, for work that “makes you laugh, then makes you think”, came and went this year, with a clutch of worthy winners. I must report, more in sorrow than in anger, that no Ig Nobel Prize in economics was awarded. This is a great shame.
https://timharford.com/2024/12/what-can-we-learn-from-fraud-and-folly/
The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, for work that “makes you laugh, then makes you think”, came and went this year, with a clutch of worthy winners. I must report, more in sorrow than in anger, that no Ig Nobel Prize in economics was awarded. This is a great shame.
https://timharford.com/2024/12/what-can-we-learn-from-fraud-and-folly/
Tim Harford
What can we learn from fraud and folly?
The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, for work that “makes you laugh, then makes you think”, came and went this year, with a clutch of worthy winners. I must report,
Decoding 6K-Year-Old Language Can Bury Modern Myths
Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root language. If true, it questions Aryan invasion theory as well as the north-south divide
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-plus/society-culture/decoding-6k-year-old-language-can-bury-modern-myths/articleshow/118790879.cms
Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root language. If true, it questions Aryan invasion theory as well as the north-south divide
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-plus/society-culture/decoding-6k-year-old-language-can-bury-modern-myths/articleshow/118790879.cms
The Times of India
Decoding 6,000-Year-Old Language Can Bury North-South Divide - The Times of India
Society & Culture News: Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root language. If true, it questions
Notes from Grief Camp
Last June, four boys bonded inside a summer camp cabin. Concealed within the laughter, however, was a link these four boys, all between the ages of five and seven, didn’t yet know about: each of them had lost a father. And I, their camp counsellor for the weekend, had lost mine too.
https://thewalrus.ca/notes-from-grief-camp/
Last June, four boys bonded inside a summer camp cabin. Concealed within the laughter, however, was a link these four boys, all between the ages of five and seven, didn’t yet know about: each of them had lost a father. And I, their camp counsellor for the weekend, had lost mine too.
https://thewalrus.ca/notes-from-grief-camp/
The Walrus
Notes from Grief Camp | The Walrus
Every summer, more than a hundred kids spend a weekend at Camp Erin swimming and canoeing. They also learn to deal with death
Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?
What is Good Friday? Good Friday is an annual commemoration on the Friday before Easter Sunday to mark the day when Jesus Christ was crucified.
https://www.historyextra.com/period/general-history/good-friday-facts-why-called/
What is Good Friday? Good Friday is an annual commemoration on the Friday before Easter Sunday to mark the day when Jesus Christ was crucified.
https://www.historyextra.com/period/general-history/good-friday-facts-why-called/
HistoryExtra
Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?
Every year Christians commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, when he suffered agonising pain on the cross, but they refer to that day as ‘good’. Jonny Wilkes explores the origin and meaning of the name, and how one of the most important days in Christianity…
Nobody Cares
Nobody cares N.B. I'm in a mood tonight, so this will be less of a well-considered essay and more of a rant, partially in the vein of Fuck Nuance. Don't take…
https://grantslatton.com/nobody-cares
Nobody cares N.B. I'm in a mood tonight, so this will be less of a well-considered essay and more of a rant, partially in the vein of Fuck Nuance. Don't take…
https://grantslatton.com/nobody-cares
Grant Slatton's Blog
Nobody Cares
A rant about caring
Is The Era Of Saree Draping Silently Coming To An End?
Is the art of saree draping slowly dying? Despite the love for sarees Indian women have, here’s why and how we may not be able to pass on this tradition to the…
https://shilpaahuja.com/saree-draping-end-era/
Is the art of saree draping slowly dying? Despite the love for sarees Indian women have, here’s why and how we may not be able to pass on this tradition to the…
https://shilpaahuja.com/saree-draping-end-era/
Wealth for Yourself vs. Wealth for Others
My wife is 13 weeks pregnant. It’s crazy to think that in six months (God willing) I’ll be a father. The heartwarming messages I’ve received from family and…
https://ofdollarsanddata.com/wealth-for-yourself-vs-wealth-for-others/
My wife is 13 weeks pregnant. It’s crazy to think that in six months (God willing) I’ll be a father. The heartwarming messages I’ve received from family and…
https://ofdollarsanddata.com/wealth-for-yourself-vs-wealth-for-others/
Of Dollars And Data
Wealth for Yourself vs. Wealth for Others
On having children and who you’re really building wealth for.
Sacred Fire In Baku
This 6,000-year time travel takes us back to an India which had evolved a flourishing maritime culture and had left its imprint overseas. David Frawley in his…
https://openthemagazine.com/world/sacred-fire-in-baku
This 6,000-year time travel takes us back to an India which had evolved a flourishing maritime culture and had left its imprint overseas. David Frawley in his…
https://openthemagazine.com/world/sacred-fire-in-baku
Open Magazine
Sacred Fire In Baku
Career Advice
To my great surprise, young people now somewhat frequently contact me in order to solicit career advice. They are usually in college or highschool, and want to…
https://moxie.org/2013/01/07/career-advice.html
To my great surprise, young people now somewhat frequently contact me in order to solicit career advice. They are usually in college or highschool, and want to…
https://moxie.org/2013/01/07/career-advice.html
Moxie Marlinspike
Career Advice
To my great surprise, young people now somewhat frequently contact me in order to solicit career advice.They are usually in college or highschool, and want to know what the best next steps are for a career in security or software development.This is, honestly…
Eating with Bare Hands
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Linguistica Indica
Cultural Perspectives on Eating with Bare Hands: India & the world
Sociology of Eating with Bare Hands in the Indian subcontinent !
Boy monster: the making of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
© AFP/Getty Images "Put Rs 10 crore aside." Zubin Bharucha didn't hesitate to repeat to the Rajasthan Royals management in November 2024 the advice he'd given…
https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1529210/the-making-of-vaibhav-sooryavanshi
© AFP/Getty Images "Put Rs 10 crore aside." Zubin Bharucha didn't hesitate to repeat to the Rajasthan Royals management in November 2024 the advice he'd given…
https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1529210/the-making-of-vaibhav-sooryavanshi
Cricinfo
Boy monster: the making of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
Behind the scenes of the bonkers rise of a super-young superstar