A list of good reads
- Hamish McRae predicts what India will be like in 2050 in The Telegraph.
- Paul Millerd offers an interesting riff on the value of being the “mediocre man”—who offers a valuable corrective to the “gospel of effort.”
- The Conversation reveals the high price of returning something on Amazon—and explains why the era of free returns will end soon.
- Yale Environment 360 introduces the concept of “extreme recycling”—where the same water is filtered and recycled over and over again in a building—and perhaps, one day, a city.
- The Print reports on a village in Gujarat where women have been forced into sex work for decades—by men in their families.
- Staying with gender rights in India: New Yorker offers a fresh, updated view on an age-old Indian scourge: dowry.
- Also in the New Yorker: everyone will soon be talking to chatbots, but who is writing their scripts?
- Analysing recent reports that the US military has retrieved many alien spacecraft, The Guardian asks: ‘Are aliens that bad at parking?’
- Also in The Guardian: a look at how Western wellness movement co-opted an Amazon frog toxin—to disastrous effect.
- Scroll offers a deep dive into the reasons why Indian husbands who rape their wives are still legally protected.
- Two good reads from The Atlantic: One, Richard A Friedman talks about how shared distractions may offer more value than intense connections in friendships. Two, Jacob Stern tells you in no uncertain terms why killer whales ramming into boats are not our friends.
