A list of good reads
- Joel Snape in The Guardian shares a list of tips or handy rules to follow to boost productivity and shed laziness.
- The Atlantic (splainer gift link) has an excellent essay on how office jobs are more filled with meetings than actual alone time to get work done, even as workload increases.
- Gizmodo explores the phenomenon of social jetlag—and how a mismatch in our sleep schedules is worse for us than we imagine.
- For Vox, Zack Beauchamp interviews political theorist Pratap Bhanu Mehta on what liberalism means in the Indian context.
- BBC News has a report on the almost-concluded Ambani wedding, recapping the events so far and asking the big question: How much is too much?
- Also in BBC News: How women in India are losing out on opportunities, as they take on the all-important daily task of securing water for their families.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) has a fascinating profile of the highly popular yet controversial slap-fighting league, Power Slap.
- Smithsonian has a report on the hippos, once smuggled by Pablo Escobar, that have made Colombia their home and are now creating problems for the authorities.
- The Conversation reports on research conducted on the top-heavy Alaskan glaciers, which are now melting faster than before, and what that could mean.
- Ars Technica has a fascinating report on fossil fields in Nebraska, US, where a supervolcanic eruption has perfectly preserved the animal remains.
