This is the third instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 13, 2020). Word count at 800.
Some interesting items from the past week
The AIIMS Story
I happened to read about the founder of AIIMS - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. This piece from Indian Express details on how she dreamt about an institute for medical higher education in India.
I want this to be something wonderful, of which India can be proud, and I want India to be proud of it
She said “I want this to be something wonderful, of which India can be proud, and I want India to be proud of it,” after the bill was passed in Rajya Sabha. By 1961 itself, AIIMS had attained global repute as it was placed alongside the best of institutes from America, Canada and Europe
The companies that help people vanish
In the previous edition I mentioned about a BBC article on oldest firms of Japan. Similar to that, this too from Japan brought to us by BBC. The Japanese being privacy centric people, they do want to vanish, sometimes. And there are firms which help them to do just that.
In Japan, these people are sometimes referred to as “jouhatsu”. That’s the Japanese word for “evaporation”, but it also refers to people who vanish on purpose into thin air, and continue to conceal their whereabouts – potentially for years, even decades.
Read it in BBC’s Worklife.
Robots and their plan to take up writer’s job
Yes, you read it write. Now robots wants to be writer, as if there is not enough reasons to worry about pink slip.
Humans must keep doing what they have been doing, hating and fighting each other. I will sit in the background, and let them do their thing
Uhh, that’s brutal. Well, we deserved some hard slap from the robots.
Go read this at the Guardian.
China is censoring Hollywood’s imagination
How come a week pass by without an interesting read on China’s activity? This time the victim is Hollywood and its imagination. You can’t buy creativity or imagination but you can modify it with big greenback, precisely what CCP is found to be doing.
By censoring American blockbusters, Beijing believes it can prevent American and global audiences from imagining the Chinese Communist Party as a major threat, and from viewing the targets of China’s repression as victims worthy of sympathy. - Axios
Well, in school days I thought hiding report card from my dad would help me. But a scar on my elbow says another story. Let’s see how long the ploy works.
Netflix CEO: why you shouldn’t try to please your boss
In all its probability, at least among millennials, TV is dead. Thanks to Reed Hastings of Netflix. He bought in the revolution, playing a movie with a click of button, no need of additional softwares or cassettes. Won’t we listen to him when he talks about the company’s culture?
If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?
Ask yourself. Are you really happy? If not, maybe it’s time to reduce the ego and increase the work. - Medium
How a Soviet Triple Agent Recruited New Spies in the West
Who doesn’t like a tale of mysterious spy? After all we all grown up watching James Bond movies.
Safo,’ a man in his mid-fifties, worked for three different spy agencies in an extraordinary lifetime but faithfully served only one.
The Daily Beast covers a mouse scrolling thriller.
Facebook returns to its roots with Campus, a college student-only social network
Facebook will market the new app both within its app and offline. Students may be prompted to join Campus through a prompt in News Feed if Facebook has enough data to indicate they’re likely a student at a supported college. - Techcrunch
George R.R. Martin can’t build castle library in New Mexico
GRRM wanter to build a castle in New Mexico, the residents denied it. - AP News
Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan
“What does Jeff Bezos wants?”. Well no one exactly knows the answers. But The Atlantic tries to answer. It’s a longread. But a good one, be ready to lose some breath.
COVID Stats
Past Week’s Snapshot data
| Week ended on Sep 6 | Total COVID-19 Cases | Cases Per Million | Deceased | Deceased Per Million | Recovered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global | 29.02M | 3,734 | 925.64K | 119 | 20.67M |
| India | 4.78M | 3,463 | 78.93K | 57 | 3.73M |
Source: As of Sep 13. ncov2019 live
The numbers are telling a grim story, no good news with respect to COVID-19.
Vaccine Tracker
 |
|---|
| Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker - Sep 13, 2020 |
Source: NYT
On comparing with the last weeks’s vaccine tracker, the vaccines under phase 1 has added a new one - University of Hong Kong and Xiamen University.
Page source
Page last updated on: 2024-11-06 09:30:05 +0530 +0530Git commit: a98b4d9