Submissions by akbarnama

Planners vs. Searchers in Foreign Aid [pdf]

Wired: Why are so many young people addicted to video games?

How They Invented Logarithms [video]

Heatwave puts focus on 'labour law violations' at Amazon

Brains, computation and thermodynamics: A view from the future?

The Brain's Navigational Place and Grid Cell System

Equality of What? [pdf]

Stephen Krashen's Theory of Second Language Acquisition

The Hollow Core of Kevin Kelly's "Thousand True Fans" Theory

Heat kills at least 15 in India as temperatures near 50C

Rotten Bananas in a Scorching India Expose Climate's Food Cost

What Counts as Consciousness

The trials of an Indian witness:how a Muslim man was caught in a legal nightmare

The 'hedonic' devil of distraction: Compensation through overconsumption

Hot weather gets techies hurrying back to office

Voyage-large-2-instruct: Instruction-tuned and rank 1 on MTEB

More Shell, Less Egg

DARPA is testing this autonomous tank with glowing "eyes"

Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Web Information

Taiwan lacks young passionate workers in semiconductor industry

Why 'Deemed Forest' Tag for Rajasthan's Orans May Not Save Them

How India's Economy Has Fared Under Modi

UAE government unit denies cloud seeding took place before Dubai floods

Only eat organic? You're paying too much, and it's not worth it, author says

Starlink satellites: Facts, tracking and impact on astronomy

Only walking for exercise?

How Do Particle Accelerators Work?

How Temu is shaking up the world of online shopping