A list of good reads
- Thinking of vaccinating your kid? Read leading virologist Gagandeep Kang’s advice in The India Forum.
- Romper offers a first-person essay by a parent secretly attached to their child’s stuffed toy. Yes, this is a thing.
- Nope, no one is very impressed with ‘Bob Biswas’ or Abhishek Bachchan. Check out the recent reviews here and here. But everybody seems to love Steven Spielberg’s take on ‘Westside Story’. Digg has a round up of reviews.
- There were two very interesting pieces in Mint Lounge this week. Shrabonti Bagchi looks at food-tech in India—which has evolved beyond just Zomato and Swiggy; Shephali Bhatt riffs on women who are finally, openly… farting.
- When the stock market falls, that’s when you should jump in and buy, buy, buy… or should you? Quartz reexamines this piece of received wisdom.
- Forget extroverts vs introverts. The Guardian introduces you to the age of ambiverts.
- Also in The Guardian: The nasty backlash against people who abandon veganism.
- Arthur C Brooks in The Atlantic offers this piece of wisdom: when you can’t change the world, change your feelings.
- Fast Company looks at how weight loss apps have hijacked the language of wellness and body positivity.
- Did you know that Amazon is working closely with researchers to find ways to block out the sun—as a solution to climate change? Gizmodo has more on this fascinating project.
- Raj Tawney in Smithsonian magazine has a delightful read on the origins and pleasures of the great Indian restaurant buffet.
- Here’s something for your 2022 bucket list: National Geographic’s list of 25 amazing journeys to take next year.
- Bloomberg Businessweek looks at the future of faux-meat burgers—which may soon be made of maggots and worms.
- Stylist lays out seven kinds of rest—other than just sleep—and explains how to get them. We personally found this quite useful.
- ‘All That is Solid’ has an excellent analysis of the latest evidence on placebos—which are becoming alarmingly effective, and messing up drug studies.
- The Hindu analyses the Poshan Tracker—which cost the government Rs 10 billion (1000 crore) and was supposed to tell us about the level of malnourishment among children. But where the hell is the data?
