Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 1,751 Some time ago, I read a remarkable book with a provocative title: Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? Probably not, the author – Frans de Waal, a well-known Dutch-American primatologist – argued. I agree, but I think we should keep trying. After all, human smartness is largely … Read more
Number of words: 4,080 Never in our lives have we experienced such a global phenomenon. For the first time in the history of the world, all of humanity, informed by the unprecedented reach of digital technology, has come together, focused on the same existential threat, consumed by the same fears and uncertainties, eagerly anticipating the … Read more
Number of words: 4,471 On a sweltering Thursday evening in Manhattan last month, people across New York City were preparing for what meteorologists predicted would be the hottest weekend of the year. Over the past two decades, every record for peak electricity use in the city has occurred during a heatwave, as millions of people … Read more
Number of words: 1,192 FOR THE BETTER part of a year, the tech world has wondered what, exactly, the Department of Justice’s long-rumored antitrust case against Google would look like. Now we have an answer. The department filed a complaint against Google on Tuesday, triggering the most significant antitrust case since the US sued Microsoft … Read more
Number of words: 538 As the COVID-19 cases continue to shoot up across the globe, scientists are still trying to understand the disease’s behavior to stop it and prevent future outbreaks.According to the report, as of mid-August 2020, more than 22M laboratory-confirmed cases have been documented worldwide, with over 770K deaths. To date, numerous possible … Read more
Number of words: 928 If you look at a carpenter, they have a toolbox; a dentist, they have their drills. In our era and the type of work most of us are doing, the tool we most need is actually centered around being able to give and receive feedback well.Humans have been talking about feedback … Read more
Number of words: 5,386 Everyone knows that South India and North India are very different in culture, language, and socio-economic development. But the most dramatic regional disparity may be in gender relations. Southern and North Eastern women are more likely to survive infancy, be educated, marry later, choose their own husbands, interact more closely with … Read more
Number of words: 935 When was it, exactly, that petite Toyotas and stubby Hondas came to rule the American road? One milestone in the compact-car takeover dates back to the summer of 2009. Times were, as you’ll recall, pretty dark. The US economy was bleeding jobs. Trillions of dollars in wealth in stocks and home … Read more
Number of words: 340 Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday that interview for recruitment in government jobs has been abolished in 23 states and eight union territories so far, according to a Personnel Ministry statement. This is a follow-up to the abolition of interview for Group-B (non-gazetted) and Group-C posts in the Central government … Read more
Number of words: 212 Physics Nobel Laureate Sir Roger Penrose has said that before the Big Bang created the universe as humans know now, there was another universe and cited black holes as the proof of its existence. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez … Read more
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