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Charles Duhigg, a New York Times best-selling author and writer for the New Yorker, talks about his new book, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection (Random House, February
Continue readingA Pulitzer Prize-winning Writer Reveals How the Best Communicators ‘Click’
by Chris Green: He moves furniture for a living, oversized bureaus and beds for the rich. He is big now and dumb with love that animals sense—cats, dogs, squirrels, birds,
This morning, I decided to aggregate few ‘good’ ones (WhatsApp shares) that I had received and saved many out of them over the years. For 2024, I found only one
Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves pervading the cosmos. The cause? Probably supermassive black hole collisions, but more exotic options can’t be ruled out. Jonathan
Continue readingAn Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe
Bassem Yousef, an Egyptian-American comedian, television host, and surgeon at the India Today Conclave 2024 labelled Israel a “typical narcissist” –by skillfully blending comedy with poignant criticism, directing his ire
Continue readingIndia Bans Bassem Yousef Speech. The Video Has Gone Viral.
From robotaxis to robo-servers that bring you food and drinks, autonomous robots are increasingly entering our lives. By Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Smiling can turn strangers into the dearest
Continue readingThis Robot Predicts When You’ll Smile—Then Grins Back Right on Cue
Lauren Schenkman at Reader’s Digest: Don’t get caught using poor netiquette. Experts share the best practices for online behavior. What is netiquette? Just like it sounds, netiquette is etiquette on
Continue readingNetiquette Guidelines to Follow for Respectful Online Interactions
The West’s dehumanization of Arabs has helped to normalize war crimes. From the Hammer & Hope: Intense anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, and what the Palestinian American intellectual Edward Said described as
Hey, you over therewho are sitting on the shore, happy and laughing,someone is dying in the water,someone is constantly strugglingon this angry, heavy, dark, familiar sea.When you are drunkwith the
By Paul Roberts at The Herald: Climate change is altering our relationship with water, increasing heat, changing weather and precipitation patterns; amount and timing of rain and• snow, and accelerating
Continue readingOur Relationship With Water is Altering. Climate Change is One of Them.
In the 17th century, scientists used physics to explain the miracles described in the Bible. A book purporting to prove that a comet caused Noah’s Flood became a best-seller. Five
Continue readingWhy Newton Believed a Comet Caused Noah’s Flood
By Erin Blakemore at National Geographic: In the beginning, there were two—animals. The Bible only specified two—a raven and a dove—among the multitudes it said were aboard Noah’s ark (depicted