1. Free Shipping — Real Life - what happens when you extrapolate Amazon’s quick shipping model to an extreme extreme?
2. White gold: the unstoppable rise of alternative milks - I love my oat milk lattes.
3. The Vegetarians at the Gate - The plant-based alternate food business is now worth billions (of dollars).
4. The Yoda of Silicon Valley - Donald Knuth has a personal assistant to handle all administrative matters and I wish I did too.
5. Lessons from the wreck of the Torrey Canyon - Which nobody has learnt, because Brexit is happening.
6. Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain - Good for you.
7. Responding to the call of home - Indian and other Asian researchers do their PhDs abroad and thankfully, some of them go back to their home countries so that they can make actual differences.
8. When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt - Of course.
9. Bus Routes in Singapore - Lovely visualization quota for the week. A vertical staggering of all of Singapore’s bus routes is the wildest rollercoaster you will see.
10. The Unconstrained Vision of David Deutsch - I have mixed views about Deutsch’s optimism about humanity and his belief that we will overcome all our (self-inflicted) problems.
See you next time. -Kat.