A list of intriguing things
One: This rose-breasted grosbeak is half male on the red side, and female on the yellow side. National Geographic has more on this fascinating find in Pennsylvania.
Two: The US military has developed augmented reality goggles for dogs to help soldiers give them visual commands when they are out of sight. BBC News has more.
Three: This is the letter director Sai Paranjpye wrote to Ravi Baswani insisting he take a role in ‘Dhuan Dhuan’—later to be renamed ‘Chashme Buddoor’. Sigh, we don’t think uncovering an equally famous email—decades from now—will have quite the same nostalgic effect.
Four: This is Virginia Woolf’s real-life room of her own which she liked very much, “though it was not ideal for concentration. She was always being distracted—by Leonard sorting the apples over her head in the loft... or the dog sitting next to her... leaving paw marks on her manuscript pages.” Yup, sounds about right. The Guardian has more writing sheds of other famous authors, including Roald Dahl and Dylan Thomas.
A short list of good reads
- New York Times takes a baseball bat to bludgeon its own journalism and star reporter Rukmini Callimachi 👏👏👏
- Ozy asks: Have the science Nobels become archaic in a world where the biggest breakthroughs are made by global teams and not individuals?
- We learned a lot from this ‘terminology’ thread that looks at the difference between (extremist or terrorist) cells vs. groups vs. movements.
- We missed this one on Monday: Asmita Bakshi’s lovely essay on her life with a person with bipolar disorder—and the unrecognised burden on women who are expected to play selfless caregivers.
