Dovi's Digest Volume 17
A weekly newsletter for all your intellectual, spiritual and physical needs
Hi All, and welcome to Volume 17 of Dovi’s Digest.
Last Thursday night after the final edit, I excitedly opened up my substack portal to post the latest edition, only to be greeted by a notice saying that my account needs to be verified and that until it is, I can’t send out any missives. This process apparently takes 1-2 business days. I was worried that I would not only miss my deadline but disappoint everyone when they excitedly wake up to read the best part of their weekend. Luckily, thanks to a few desperate emails and tearful phone calls (this is hyperbole), substack and I managed to sort out the issue so you could get the edition at the correct time, hot off the press. This being said, there were a few hiccups. So, if you didn’t receive last week’s email or received it multiple times, this is entirely substack’s fault and definitely not as a result of me desperately mashing the buttons on my keyboard.
More importantly, in this week’s edition we have a pretty eclectic bunch of articles (even for me). There’s something for everyone, whether you’re an engineer, a historian, a crime buff, or a financially inclined toker.
There were two correct answers to last week’s riddle. Well done to Dovi Flax (Third week in a row!!!) and Akiva Crouse. The answer and this week’s riddle are below.
Keep those articles (and everything else) coming!
All the best
Dovi
And now, the articles:
When he was six, Paul Alexander contracted Polio and was paralysed for life. Today he is 74, and one of the last people in the world still using an iron lung. But after surviving one deadly outbreak, he did not expect to find himself threatened by another.
A Concise History of the Quartz Watch Revolution (Courtesy of Daniel Shill)
In the watch world, the 1970s changed everything.
How Many People Did it Take to Build the Great Pyramid?
How the Pyramids at Giza were built is one of Egypt’s biggest mysteries.
The Economic Benefits of Legalising Weed
THC, CBD, ROI?
The Pope, the Jews, and the Secrets in the Archives (Courtesy of Dr Stanley Wolberg)
Documents reveal the private discussions behind both Pope Pius XII’s silence about Nazi deportation of Rome’s Jews in 1943 and the Vatican’s postwar support for the kidnapping of two Jewish boys whose parents had perished in the Holocaust.
The Incredible Story of the US Army’s Earth-Shaking, Off-Road Land Trains
Oh, your pickup has a lift? That’s cute.
Framed: A Mystery in Six Parts
She was the PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her?
Quote of the Week:
“Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.” – Jean Rostand
Facts of the Week:
Cuttlefish have three hearts.
Fish can see 70 times further in air than in water.
Cartoon of the Week:
Brainteaser of the Week:
The following is a clue for what science related word?
4N6
Last week’s Brainteaser and answer:
Using the first three shapes values as a guide, find the value that corresponds to the last shape.
Answer:
21. Each number displays the number of straight lines, followed by the number of curves. The last shape has two straight lines and one curved line.
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