Bhavya Chowdhury 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
Number of words: 1,705 In a fascinating series of tweets, and a memo, the News Guild of New York — the union that represents 1200 New York Times employees — recently set out its goals for the newspaper, especially with respect to its employees of color. Money quote: “Our workforce should reflect our home. The … Read more
Number of words: 1,102 Despite the much greater sales success of battery electric vehicles (BEV) over fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), there’s still a huge amount of interest in hydrogen as the green replacement for fossil fuels. The first hydrogen-powered train in the UK made its maiden voyage last week, and the EU is putting … Read more
Number of words: 4,859 “You’re Hired!” is Casey Mulligan’s memoir of a year spent as Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisers. The book is pitched as an analysis of President Trump, “riveting first-hand accounts of President Trump’s engagement with policy and politics.” I read it in part for that reason. Opinions on the … Read more
Number of words: 331 The effects of changing climate and rising temperatures are not just responsible for extreme weathers and rising sea levels, they can also bring subtle changes like flowers changing their colours. A recent research suggests that due to the declining ozone and increasing global warming, flowers are changing their colours. This happens … Read more
Number of words: 226 Elon Musk wants everyone to get brain surgery. Specifically, he wants everyone to get a brain implant — the brain-machine interface created by his company, Neuralink. He says it will be able to solve any number of medical conditions — including paralysis, anxiety, and addiction. Machines that connect to the human … Read more
Number of words: 2,352 It’s spring, 1902. I receive a text. It’s France, thank God. My Russian army is cornered by a four-front assault from England, Germany, the Ottoman Turks, and finally, cruelly, Austria-Hungary, a nation I believed to be my ally and whose leader had just video-called me to discuss our ongoing alliance face-to-face. … Read more
Number of words: 117 The School Bus Test is a simple metaphor. If a founder or leader of an organization were to be hit by a school bus, would the organization continue to thrive at the same pace without them at the helm? So many organizations are built on the force of a single personality … Read more
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