TIL -- 'Didi' in Bengali (my native language) means 'Older sister', and it also means 'Younger brother' in Mandarin. How did that happen? Is there any science that even partially explains this?

Urgent casting request: For my upcoming play with Naatak, 'We Are Open', we still have one open role: Male or female who looks in the 25-35 age range, fluent in English and Hindi. 9 shows in San Jose between 22nd April and 8th May. Interested? Know anyone? Get in touch ASAP.

8-hours of sleep is totally overrated! Also, totally unrelated, my rating system is poorly calibrated! How many X-ated words are there in this tweet?

Eating while wearing VR glassed an immersed in a different world is a kind of cognitive dissonance I haven't experienced before. Have you tried?

Is it just me, or do you also start to remember the number of unread emails in your inbox and mentally compare against that to detect new email? e.g. my gmail has 2347 unread emails, and that's been the steady state recently. When it hits 2348, I've got mail. Is this weird?

Browsing and skipping short vertical videos on a mobile phone might just be the modern day equivalent of TV channel surfing on a remote.

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