A list of good reads
- Financial Times (splainer gift link) asks what happens when we spot the asteroid that will hit the Earth—in light of the first ever activation of an alerts system.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) analyses whether banks should do more to fight the ‘pig butchering’ online investment scam.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) searches for the vast audience cultivated by video-focused podcasts, a traditionally audio-only format.
- Good Food Movement breaks down how a summertime millet experiment by Kolhapur farmers has become a success story.
- Public Books looks at the legacy of the US-led war on terror—how it paradoxically faded into the American background while it was being expanded abroad.
- Aeon makes a case for the ability of jazz and dolphins to help explain how consciousness works.
- Alyx Gorman in The Guardian outlines the one universal sex tip that’s simple, teachable and obvious: “Ask your lover.”
- In light of the Kolhapuri chappal scandal, BBC News looks at why Prada and other luxury brands keep getting India wrong.
- Victoria Song spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk’s AI anime girlfriend Ani. The Verge has her account.
- Sticking with Elon, Washington Post (splainer gift link) reveals the grave inefficiencies of Starlink—it works great when hardly anyone is using it!
- With medical devices impacting countless patients’ brains, Vox says the neurotechnology revolution has arrived—and it’s not all Black Mirror.
- The Economist offers a simple question: do probiotics work?
- TM Krishna in The Telegraph calls on the government to play its part as a welfare state by protecting people and dogs—amid interconnected issues of dog attacks and abuse.
