Dovi's Digest Volume 21
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Hi All, and welcome to Volume 21 of Dovi’s Digest.
For weeks I’ve been threatening to write a short preamble, yet never delivered on my promises. However, I’m determined to break that cycle of disappointment this time round. It’s not through lack of trying, but I sometimes get carried away with the thought process.
So, without any further ado, I’ll be signing off, after I tell you about the articles.
This week’s edition has it all, from dinosaurs to murder, from being filthy rich to being broke (on purpose) as well as why we don’t actually need to have memories of an event to be able to remember it(ish).
There were Zero correct answers to last week’s riddle. The explanation and this week’s one (which is a bit easier) is below.
A bonus extra we have today is a video cataloguing what is “the best thing”. Thank you to Kevin Levy for sending it my way. Spoiler: it isn’t oxygen or pizza.
As always, please keep forwarding the Digest to people who you think would enjoy it, as building the base allows me to expand the digest too.
Keep those articles (and everything else) coming!
All the best
Dovi
And now, the articles:
Got a spare $250 million? If you’re among the 0.1 percent, you probably do.
Dan Aykroyd and John Landis: how we made The Blues Brothers
“For some of the crew working nights on the film, cocaine was almost like coffee. I never liked it myself but I wasn’t going to police others’ behaviour”.
Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works just as well.too
The Billionaire Who Wanted to Die Broke…Is Now Officially Broke(Courtesy of Ori Tobias)
It took decades, but Chuck Feeney, the former billionaire cofounder of retail giant Duty Free Shoppers has finally given all his money away to charity. He has nothing left now—and he couldn’t be happier.
One Nation “Under God”? More and More Americans Don’t Think So
In the United States, one of the most consequential cultural changes of our time may be the swift and seemingly accelerating decline of religious commitment.
If, through some scientific malfunction, you found yourself transported 70 million years into the past, you might be safer from certain hungry reptiles than you think.
The Tale of The Tale of John and Ann Bender and Their Quest for Paradise
A brilliant American financier and his exotic wife build a lavish mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a compelling mystery.
Quote of the Week:
I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.” - Arthur C. Clarke
Facts of the Week:
People who have had their frown lines removed with Botox find it harder to read difficult sentences.
An altered state of consciousness can be achieved by staring into someone’s eyes for 10 minutes.
Cartoon of the Week:
Brainteaser of the Week:
Firefighters Dean and Henry rescued a number of cats from trees in one week. Henry rescued twice as many cats as Dean. The total number of cats rescued is a perfect square. Neither rescued more than one cat a day. How many cats did each man rescue?
Last week’s Brainteaser and answer:
Every day at noon, a ship leaves Le Havre for New York and another ship leaves New York for Le Havre. The trip lasts 7 days and 7 nights. How many New York-Le Havre ships will the ship leaving Le Havre today meet during its journey to New York?
Answer:
15 ships.
At the moment you take off there will already be 6 New York-Le Havre ships already at sea, one docking at Le Havre and one casting off at New York.
At noon of each day of the voyage a new ship will be launched. You must encounter every ship that was already at sea (6) and each one that was launched during your voyage (including the one that launched at the same time you did, so 7 more).
So you will pass 13 ships at sea and also encounter a ship that docked as you cast off and another that cast off as you docked.
The diagram below will give a clearer picture. Each green dot indicates an encounter with a ship.
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