Fish don’t know they’re in water This is something I also learned while traveling, the further you go away from home, the more you realize that many things you take as granted are just part of your own culture.
Don’t Know Much About History While I hope that history lessons in Europe aren’t as bad as they apparently are in the US, I remember from my own high-school days that the subject is often taught in awful ways.
The story of the Gömböc This is why math is cool: what starts as a weird theory, is later discovered to actually exist in nature.
Why numbering should start at zero A letter by Edsger W. Dykstra gives a reason for why array indexing should start with 0 (“an element’s ordinal (subscript) equals the number of elements preceding it in the sequence”).
An Indian summary Great visualization of Indian states compared to countries. Maharashtra for example has the GDP of Singapore, but a per head roughly like Sri Lanka.
How European Elites Lost a Generation A good article to understand some of the motivations behind the protests of young people everywhere in Europe.
Lucky Yingluck With the Thai elections around the corner, this article provides some insights into the current election campaign.