A list of good reads
- Forking Paths has a fascinating essay on why our brain is wired for obsessing over true crime stories.
- Ok, so everyone is stressing over how these super-smart AI tools are going to replace humans? The Verge has some news for you: they require the grunt labour of underpaid humans doing very boring work to create their training data.
- Quartz explains why this first art IPO is good news for museums.
- A must-read from the New Yorker: the case against travel.
- TIME explains why women are so vulnerable during India's deadly heat waves.
- LitHub has an excellent pop culture piece on why Hollywood TV series could be a little less morally grey.
- Pranay Kotasthane in Times of India has an interesting piece on how to rethink the IIT brain drain puzzle.
- The India Forum offers a good analysis of the complicated relationship between the US and India.
- Jeremy B Jones in Bitter Southerner pens a lovely and thought-provoking essay on his grandfather’s unremarkable life—and why it is no less wonderful or valuable of the more remarkable kind.
- Vir Sanghvi writes about the hottest menu item—the North African shakshuka—and its Parsi equivalent Papeta Par Eedu.
