Dovi’s Digest Volume 43
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Hello everybody! Welcome to Volume 43 of Dovi’s Digest.
Well, it’s been a week already and I don’t have that much to report. However, I particularly enjoyed writing this week’s Digest. Sometimes I have trouble putting together an edition, making sure that articles are relatively diverse, accessible and interesting. I do my best to make sure that there’s something for everyone in each newsletter. Some science, some tech, some literature, often a crime read and a piece on self-growth. This week, things just seemed to flow, and I hope you feel the same way.
There was three correct answer to last week’s riddle, well done to Rabbi Sam Thurgood, Isaac Lipschitz and David Greenway! This week’s riddle is below. It is another bespoke one by Myer Brom, and it’s a goody (that could be my ego talking though). Not only does it use my name, but also refers to this week’s edition (Volume 43). Smart!
My personal favourites this week are the one about slow breathing (because we can all take a few minutes to just be present), why there is no such thing as a bad maths student, the 25 year heist and of course, the epic road trip of the goodest dogs. Enjoy!
Keep those articles (and everything else) coming,
All the best
Dovi
And now, the articles:
Why Plus Is a Minus When Naming Your Streaming Site
(Courtesy of Ori Tobias)
An idea that seemed like a real plus when streaming was newer has fallen into cliché.
Could Plastic Roads Make For a Smoother Ride?
(Courtesy of Eli Berkow)
From lower carbon emissions to fewer potholes, there are a number of benefits to building a layer of plastic into roads.
How One Hour of Slow Breathing Changed My Life
An introductory breathing class fixed my sleep and left me calmer than ever. It took me years to find out why.
Could Consciousness All Come Down to the Way Things Vibrate?
A resonance theory of consciousness suggests that the way all matter vibrates, and the tendency for those vibrations to sync up, might be a way to answer the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness.
A Mathematician Has Created a Teaching Method That’s Proving There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Math Student
Examining class structure and approach.
THE INSIDE STORY OF THE $8 MILLION HEIST FROM THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY
Precious maps, books and artworks vanished from the Pittsburgh archive over the course of 25 years.
Homeward Bound
Make a new canine friend in Maine and chances are good she’s from down south, as the dog-crazy Pine Tree State is among the most common destinations for southern rescue dogs. To understand why — and how they arrive — Kathryn Miles joined 37 very good dogs on a 1,600-mile road trip.
Quote of the Week:
“The comfortable life lowers man’s resistance so that he sinks into an unheroic sloth” – Colin Wilson
Facts of the Week:
Britain’s first vegetarian church opened in a building called Beefsteak Chapel.
Mentioning guacamole on your dating profile gets you 144% more responses.
The first contraceptive pill was developed from Mexican yams.
Prussian blue was discovered by a German chemist trying to make red.
Red placebo pills work better than blue ones.
Yellow tennis balls, which look better on colour TV, were the idea of David Attenborough when he was Controller of BBC2.
Different tennis balls are used for men’s and women’s matches. The men’s are fluffier to slow them down.
Table tennis was the first sport to abolish the distinction between amateurs and professionals.
Tweet of the Week:
Cartoon of the Week:
Brainteaser of the Week:
Starting with the word “Dovi’s”, change only one letter at a time, such that after each change it still results in a regular common English word. Transition to the word “forty”, then again to the word “three”.
Last week’s Brainteaser and answer:
A clock was correct at midnight.
From that moment it began to lose one minute per hour.
The clock stopped 90 minutes ago showing clock 16:43
What is the correct time now?
The clock runs for less than 24 hours.
Answer:
18:30
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