Disneyland and the Power of Smell Disney employs over 2,000 people in its Imagineering Group, the team of engineers and designers that build the theme parks. In 1986, the group was granted one of its most famous patents: a "Smell-Emitting System". Also known as a Smellitzer,

I've increasingly begun using terminology like "the eighteen hundreds" instead of "the nineteenth century" because the latter adds unnecessary cognitive load, making it harder on the listener.

"Life is full of what-ifs. Sometimes they happen. Many times they don’t. You don’t spend life worrying about what-ifs. You spend your life preparing for what-ifs.” Dr. S. Jaishankar in Financial Times

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We are deeply anguished by the tragic event involving Air India Flight 171. No words can adequately express the grief we feel at this moment. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families who have lost their loved ones, and with those who have been injured. Tata Group will

We need to talk about how American airport timetable screens are alphabetically ordered by destination While Europeans ones are ordered by departure time And the American ordering is just way faster to find your flight and gate

Here's something awesome 😍 Reshma, Lakshmi, Kirat, and Yamini are four young 8th- and 9th-standard girls from rural and socially disadvantaged communities in Karnataka. They published a scientific research paper in a peer-reviewed international journal on an innovative method

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Brokers want you to keep MF units in demat. Don't do it. They usually do it cause it is very hard to change brokers once units are dematted. You lose ability to transact via MFU or AMC websites & take control of your units directly. Story by Sashind Ningthoukhongjam livemint.com/money/personal…

I agree with much of the piece and it's very well articulated. The whole AI space is too risky for value investors like me. There is a better way to invest in this bubble, though, without compromising on the definition of what's an investment as per Ben Graham (safety of

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LinkedIn is more irritating than even Instagram.

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Ever wondered why a dosa turns out perfectly crispy on the outside and soft inside? The secret goes far beyond culinary instinct driven by physics. In an authored article for DT Next IIT Madras, Prof. Mahesh Panchagnula unpacks the science behind this everyday magic. The

You're driving with your partner and come to a fork in the road. They turn right. Four miles later, you're lost. You mutter:"I knew we should have taken that left." Did you though? This is hindsight bias. It's the tendency to look back at events and see them as more predictable

Andrej Karpathy I feel this way most weeks tbh. Sometimes I start approaching a problem manually, and have to remind myself “claude can probably do this”. Recently we were debugging a memory leak in Claude Code, and I started approaching it the old fashioned way: connecting a profiler, using the

A Final Message From Scott Adams

"I'd pay my entire fortune to have one more night with my parents." "I think about my parents. My dad died in 2004. My mom died in 1987, and I still have conversations with them. I ask for forgiveness for them, and I give them forgiveness. I'd pay my entire fortune to have one