|
The government revealed that 600,000 Indians gave up their citizenship between 2017 and 2020 to opt for another country. OTOH, only a total of 4,177 people became Indian citizens between 2016 and 2020—most of them from Pakistan. But hey, who is more bharatiya than our Canadian passport-wala Akki? (The Print)
Your fave brand destroys the Amazon
That’s the bad news delivered by a new study that links leather items sold by H&M, Zara, Adidas and Nike to deforestation in South America. Also as bad: luxury brands like Coach, Fendi, Louis Vuitton and Prada. They all buy from the largest Brazilian leather exporter, JBS. The link is indirect but still significant:
“Research has shown that the cattle industry is the single largest driver of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and the fashion industry is an important cog in the leather exportation machine. In fact, projections show that in order to keep supplying consumers with wallets, handbags and shoes, the fashion industry must slaughter 430 million cows annually by 2025.”
Emojis women love to dislike
According to a new study, using emojis is risky in work messages because women tend to respond negatively to some of them. The phenomenon is called “Emotional negativity bias,” which posits that some people are more sensitive to negative facial emotions than to positive ones. Among the emojis perceived more negatively by women: the thinking emoji, smiling face with horns and of a surprised face with eyebrows raised. Also, this one weird thing: “For the surprised face, the eyebrows made the difference. There was no gender difference in reactions to the surprised face without eyebrows.” (Wall Street Journal)
How much for this make-believe yacht?
NFTs are beginning to resemble that fable about the emperor who had no clothes. Someone actually paid $650,000 in crypto for a virtual yacht. Ok, in theory, this giant boat is four stories and has lounge areas, a hot tub, dance floor, D booth and two helipads (imaginary helicopters sold separately). Guess who is not buying NFT yachts: real-life billionaires with real-world yachts. (Futurism)
|
