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  • The Telegraph

    Mahabharata: a dazzling distillation of a millennia-old epic

    First written in Sanskrit and accredited to the poet Vyasa, the epic poem the Mahabharata weighs in at roughly 10 times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined. It predates Greek drama by approximately 2,000 years, and its importance within the context of universally influential stories is comparable to the Bible, Beowulf and the works of Shakespeare.

  • The Independent

    Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 awarded to scientists who made ‘impossible’ breakthrough

    The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for discovering a way to study the world at a level previously thought impossible. The Nobel Assembly announced that Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier would receive the 2023 prize “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.” The award comes a day after the Nobel Assembly awarded Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against Covid-19.”

  • The Wall Street Journal

    Zoom’s Ex-CMO Will Now Pitch Hybrid Work as CEO of Video-Tech Firm Neat

    Janine Pelosi is assuming the top spot at another company that depends on the new flexible way of working—one that many businesses are trying to rein in.