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1) Keeping up with Kafka
This 12 months will mark 100 years since German-Czech author Franz Kafka died. But Kafka is a temper that persists. Kafka is a ceremony of passage. Dog-eared editions of his books have shepherded hundreds of thousands via teen angst, mid-life crises and the overall existential dread of maturity. Kafkaesque is a time period for the ages. It will proceed to explain our expertise of navigating an inscrutable world marked by detached forms, unreasonable patriarchs and highly effective dictators, as a lot as it can deftly clarify the alienation we expertise when the huge chasm between ourselves and others by the use of our political variations turns into recognized to us. Read extra.
2) Old Franz and New
What does it seem like when three nations be part of forces to have fun a singular thoughts and legacy? A century after the Jewish German-Czech author Franz Kafka died, aged 40, in Vienna, Austria, tribute occasions embrace gigs by bands named The Metamorphosis and The Process; a videogame that confronts gamers with the impossibility of selection; a fable-like manufacturing for youngsters; and a futuristic experiment that seeks to discover the that means of Kafka within the age of AI.
Perhaps probably the most in depth of the celebrations deliberate is Kafka 2024, initiated by the Adalbert Stifter Association in Munich and the Prague City Library, and supported by the governments of Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria, with a calendar of occasions unfolding throughout all three nations. Read extra.
3) Modern sports activities medication: It’s a flex
In August, Vinesh Phogat underwent surgical procedure to reconstruct her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), following a knee harm. In January, she was again in competitors, powering her approach via to gold on the Senior National Wrestling Championships. That is a dramatically quick timeline that’s merely not presupposed to occur. How did it? Well, that’s how far fashionable sports activities science has come. Read extra.
4) THE DAILY QUIZ
In the Amazon, scientists have discovered the world’s largest snake. It’s thick as a automotive tyre, eight meters lengthy, weighing 200kg. It’s inexperienced, larger than a reticulated python and will simply star in a movie with Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube. The title?
a. Anaconda
b. Boa Constrictor
c. Water Boa
d. Boolean Python
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5) Fever dream: In this story, women first, second and third
What would it not seem like if ladies dominated the world? More than a century in the past, the Bengali feminist author Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain adopted that line of thought via reasonably darkish alleyways. A pioneering ladies’s rights advocate within the early 1900s, Hossain (1880-1932) wrote of her imaginative and prescient in a narrative titled Sultana’s Dream, revealed in 1905. In this story, written in English, the lads thoughtlessly rush right into a struggle and endure nice losses, whereas the ladies, who’re scientists, inventors and rulers of Ladyland, devise a option to finish the struggle non-violently. The males are then confined indoors and stripped of their freedoms. It is a world order that comes at a value, however a lower cost than the choice, the ebook would appear to argue. Read extra.
