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Videos🎬
This week on a totally random note, for the 100th time in my life, I thought of watching a F1 race. Not much has changed since the last time I tried understanding this fancy-dress-on-wheels. Hyberbole aside, there is obviously something thrilling about a human hurtling down a street in 200+ kmph. Check this video of Ayrton Senna in Monaco. Look how his head bobbles. Stressful.
Moving further,
I came across this video a while back and this was akin to a stifled aww leading to a bad nightmare. That is all that I will say.
Movies📼
This is it. Watch me as I name drop all over the next sentence.
Martin Scorsese helped Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino to create a quarantine movie club with these must-see British films. I can spot David Lean in the list.
Here are 21 movies. Classics. Hand picked. For you. For free. On Youtube.
Watch them and never complain that we have nothing to watch. I won’t. Promise.
Click on the Youtube playlist here.
Music🎵
Not heard much music this week. Any new music at least. So I shall be pulling out one of the classics this time around. Once again we look in the direction of NPR and they do not disappoint.
World Cafe
When it comes to the airwaves, World Cafe is NPR's most popular music radio show. More than 200 public radio stations, from all corners of the country, carry the two-hour program. Now, as part of our new NPR Music Playlist hub, you can listen to the songs featured on World Cafe. We'll update the playlist every Monday with a selection of best cuts from the prior week.
Reading📚
Was Einstein wrong? Why some astrophysicists are questioning the theory of space-time. Read the article here.
Booker nominated author has his wallet stolen by a crow. True Story.
Read the article hereHow a brutal assault led a woman to one of the CIA's most valuable Russian spies. Read the article here
Amitava Kumar is being interviewed on ‘Advice to writers’ . Read the article here
Impact of Covid on nature - May be, may be not. Read the article here
SHORT STORY OF THE WEEK - Blind Dog by RK Narayan (Look it up online, I had a copy)
PODCASTS🎧
Means of Creation
I have been listening to a lot of interview podcasts these days and this one was definitely interesting. Gumroad, the company has had an interesting curve and right now, when it is doing absolutely well, it has a rather radical approach to running things. Li Jin and Nathan Baschez speak to Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad.
Quiz Time India
Another episode came out over the weekend. As the title suggests, questions feature trivia about Amul, Indian Railways and a Abhishek Bachchan film. Think you can crack these? Tune in.
Just Internet things
Twitter takes a stance. Urmm.
Pakistan’s economy seems to be in good hands
Lolololol. Matlab why not.
And life was never the same ever again
Around the world
There was a lunar thing this week. Quite special
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