A list of good reads
- Rest of World takes a look at the role of YouTube as the primary platform for political campaigning in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
- Nature has an interesting feature on how new neural implants (made by companies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink) are helping us understand how the human brain works. FYI, we did an excellent Big Story highlighting the controversies surrounding Neuralink.
- Popular Science has a fascinating report that links the number of snake species in the world to a biological singularity event.
- Tina Das in The Print looks at why Bollywood’s military movies like ‘The Fighter’ are bombing at the box office.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) reports on how parents of child influencers—pushing their kids’ views on social media—attract sexual abusers.
- The Atlantic looks at the newest startups being pitched in Silicon Valley: autonomous city-states called “network states.”
- Also in The Atlantic: Arthur C Brooks has a helpful guide to help you break the habit of chronic grumbling.
- Heidi Lasher in Orion Magazine pens a thoughtful essay on how the baseline of what constitutes ‘the normal’ shifts with diseases like dementia.
- Economic Times looks at the emergence of a privacy-centric internet with the end of third-party cookies.
- BBC Travel has a lovely piece on the "queen of Goan desserts": the Bebinca.
