Quick notes: Next Pakistan, Spaced repetition...

• Betrayal as national policy: Turkey is turning into the next Pakistan 



• “Spaced Repetition”: The scientific, efficient way to learn languages.



• A bear and tiger fight at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve:




• China dangles carrots to lure foreign talent: The talent pool at Zhongguancun Science Park has over 10,000 foreign hires. The goal is to attract top-notch scientists and their innovation teams from all over the world.



• Right priorities: China is beating back traffic in its most congested cities. More than half of the top 30 most-congested cities in 2016 saw a decline in the time drivers spent in rush hour traffic one year later.



• Chinese Stealth: How China's Geely spent months stealthily building a $9 billion stake in Daimler



• Investigate the RBI: When questions were raised how Harshad Mehta functioned, the RBI blamed everybody except the RBI. If you start an honest investigation, the first stop is the role of the RBI.  If you are not going to investigate the RBI now, we are putting our banking system into turmoil... The system has been designed carefully to ensure this is not audited or even when audited not much comes out and even some one points out something, the officials within the system connive to bury the matter. 



• Neonicotinoids: Pesticides put bees at risk, European watchdog confirms 



• On caste: The religion of the Hindus is divided into two parts: the ceremonial and the spiritual. The spiritual portion is specially studied by the monks. In that there is no caste. A man from the highest caste and a man from the lowest may become a monk in India, and the two castes become equal. In religion there is no caste; caste is simply a social institution --Swami Vivekananda