Number of words: 1,972 Unless you’ve spent quality time on the International Space Station, this is probably not a view you are super familiar with. This is the east coast of the United States. That’s New York down there in the lower right, and it’s a band of light all the way up through Washington … Read more

Number of words: 632 Toyota Motor and Volkswagen each sell 10 million cars, give or take, every year. Tesla delivered about 367,500 in 2019. But when it comes to electronics technology, Elon Musk’s scrappy company is far ahead of the industry giants. This is the takeaway from Nikkei Business Publications’ teardown of the Model 3, the … Read more

Number of words: 1,922 If you’re on the hunt for a new job, there’s a new twist to the hiring process that’s increasingly common: Getting judged by artificial intelligence. Major businesses like Unilever and Ikea are turning to AI programs to sniff out suitable applicants — and predict future job performance — partly as a way … Read more

Number of words: 617 Most people turn to personal narratives or philosophical justifications to explain why they hold a particular political opinion. A recently published psychology study suggests they should also look to the size and shape of their brains. Psychologists conducted brain scans on a total of 93 adults (first they studied 48 Caucasian … Read more

Number of words: 158 The custom of exposing the dead is widespread. Certain Kshatriya clans practiced it in ancient times; the Parsis mantain it to this day. It has been recorded from Melanesia and Madagascar. It exists only in a comparitively small area of north-east India. Dr. Hutton has drawn a distinction between the Western … Read more

Number of words: 187 ‘Only two ancient customs have had to be put down by Government: the sacrifice of mithuns by cruel methods, and head-hunting. The suppression of the first is wholly good, and more humane methods of killing can be substituted without detriment to the rites. ‘The suppression of head-hunting, though necessary in any … Read more

Number of words: 333 Dr Wulsin describes experiments on how clothes hamper the body in keeping itself cool. They act as insulators, checking heat loss by radiation. More important, they create near the skin a layer of heat, soaked through the clothing, and then its cooling effect is largely wasted. Europeans in the tropics  who … Read more

Number of words: 208 There has recently been an interesting discussion of this subject in Time magazine. Professor Huntington of Yale has argued that the highest forms of civilization must develop in temperate climates. If a country is too cold, its people have to struggle too hard just to stay alive. If it is too … Read more

Number of words: 173 Bernard Shaw illustrated this point by a description of the Victorian woman. She was a masterpiece of sex appeal. She was sex appeal from the top her head to the soles of her feet. She was clothed, of course, from head to feet; all clothes! Everything about her, except her cheeks … Read more

Number of words: 105  Then he speaks of a Hindu religious song of morning, and the holy formula “Sat-Chi-Ananda”: “sat” meaning “truth”, “Chi” “that which lives” and “true knowledge”  (i.e. not a knowledge void of true perception), and “Ananda” “ineffable joy”. In this conception truth is inseperable from joy. “Yet one must suffer in the … Read more