“Attractive and interesting people are more fickle because of the vast pool of options available to them. They are, relative to less desirable people, more likely to use exit (‘it’s over’) rather than voice (‘let’s talk this out’) in their relationships.”
Happy 76th birthday to Bill Paterson, who was absolutely brilliant in the terrific BBC miniseries Traffik (Later remade as an Oscar winning film by Soderbergh).
Thanks to @veejaysai I learnt that today was Mali's anniversary. A good day to remember his brilliant music with this old recording of an RTP in Sahana...
In March, @samit_dasgupta, a mathematician at Duke University, and Mahesh Kakde of the Indian Institute of Science provided the first answer to a question David Hilbert posed over 100 years ago.
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
@btbytes @hpnadig I am a korean drama regular since many years nw. Lot of cultural similarities too. They refer to spouse as jib-saram jib means house saram is person. Like we say mane avru... Check out this wiki page
Ouch! "But then I realized that ["Noise" co-author Cass] Sunstein kinda is like Columbus, in that he’s an ignorant guy who sails off to a faraway land, a country already full of people, and then he goes back and declares he’s discovered the place."
Strongly recommend reading this article. I agree with 90% of what Burja says in here. Main thing I would add is that the oldest civilizations are probably underwater due to sea level rise.
"Nearly all autobiographies fail because the genre requires total honesty, and not only do few writers have the stomach for turning the razor on themselves, most still have one eye on future job offers...you’re usually reading a résumé, not a book."
"people will say, 'Well, he may have treated his children, wives, friends terribly, but look at the novels, the poems, the paintings.' I think it’s a terrible equation...if the art legitimates cruelty, I think the art is not worth having."
Superb interview with the head of UK’s vaccine program- a former VC. She outlines how a VC mindset rather than a standard govt procurement mindset is what was required here. Lots for GoI to learn
“Tea must be universally renounced . . . and the sooner the better,” wrote John Adams, enroute to the first Continental Congress in 1774. Patriotic Americans agreed and embraced coffee as their favorite drink.
Hindu and Māori people, communities still connected to their timeless roots had a get-together at Apumoana Marae. If this kind of harmony and respect for each other's traditions existed in the more recent religions, the world would be a very peaceful place
Quite happy to see the excellent set of papers in the JFP special issue on effects & handlers that @andrejbauer and I co-edited: . Many thanks to the authors, and the JFP editors-in-chief @jer_gib and @ShriramKMurthi for their guidance.