Think Pieces reviewed and written by Lakshmi and Seetha Ram

The Daiwa Institute of Research puts economic gains during the games at ¥520 billion. Of the total, ¥70 billion would come from spending by Olympic and Paralympic participants and spectators, and ¥150 billion by households. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/06/27/business/olympics-economic-risks-benefits-japan/ — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ayodhya-should-manifest-finest-of-our-traditions-developmental-transformations-says-modi/article34985617.ece — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0007527956 — Best regards Seetha Ram

TVG also doesn't subscribe to the idea of good and bad voices. "Voice is a singer's identity. But the main problem is that some people imitate. Some tend to sing like their teachers, and the teacher's responsibility is to prevent them from doing that." https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/if-you-can-speak-you-should-sing-says-tv-gopalakrishnan/article34784145.ece — Best regards Seetha Ram

Very nice article https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/the-art-and-science-of-tambura/article34952119.ece — Best regards Seetha Ram

The Japan Times Jun 26, 2021 Page 9 Read more... Lucky you. This email was sent to you by a user of PressReader, who thought you'd be interested in reading this story. It means you get to click the link and read it. It does not, however, mean you get any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property, copyrighted material, or trademarks of PressReader or any of our content partners. PressReader Inc., 200-13111 Vanier Place, Richmond BC V6V 2J1, Canada PressReader International Limited, 2nd Floor, The Boat House, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, D08 H01F, Ireland ®2003- PressReader, all rights reserved. |   — Best regards Seetha Ram

The Japan Times Jun 26, 2021 Page 10 Read more... Lucky you. This email was sent to you by a user of PressReader, who thought you'd be interested in reading this story. It means you get to click the link and read it. It does not, however, mean you get any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property, copyrighted material, or trademarks of PressReader or any of our content partners. PressReader Inc., 200-13111 Vanier Place, Richmond BC V6V 2J1, Canada PressReader International Limited, 2nd Floor, The Boat House, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, D08 H01F, Ireland ®2003- PressReader, all rights reserved. |   — Best regards Seetha Ram

Excellent paper. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sdr.1673?goal=0_09c823f29f-9424fcf80d-411324149&mc_cid=9424fcf80d&mc_eid=7711ccdfa8 — Best regards Seetha Ram

Today's most popular meditation practices can usually be traced to ancient religious cultures in Asia. For instance, the earliest written evidence of meditation dates to around 1500 B.C. in India, when it was described in the Vedas, the earliest Hindu sacred texts, as a religious practice. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/why-meditation-is-great-for-kids-too?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=FFG_Special_20210620&rid=7CA775419451D5AE14355B19B0EF0C49  

Fundamentally, rush hour is the constraint around which many people have structured their lives: where to live, which job to take, what grocery store to use, when to eat family dinner. A Little More Remote Work Could Change Rush Hour a Lot https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/upshot/rush-hour-remote-work.html?referringSource=articleShare — Best regards Seetha Ram

What would Japan look like if there were more foreign residents in the country? The Japanese government has been reluctant to open the country to large-scale immigration, especially to those engaging in unskilled labor. But as the population grays and dwindles, and a labor shortage looms larger, many people from abroad have already been allowed to enter under several different programs. The government has no official statistics, but the number of immigrants in Japan is estimated to be around 1.5 million-2.5 million people, some 1.2% to 2% of the entire population.  https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z0508_00213.html   — Best Regards Seetha Ram

Dr. Hood decided to pursue medicine after accompanying his mother, who was a nurse, to the doctor. Emory Apologizes to Medical School Applicant Rejected Because He Was Black https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/us/emory-university-apology-marion-hood.html?referringSource=articleShare — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://seiwa-denko.co.jp/biolux/media_archive.html — Best regards Seetha Ram

Story telling is always important   China Repackages Its History in Support of Xi's National Vision Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ. — Best regards Seetha Ram

A good quality weld would not have failed like that," said Gary J. Klein, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and an executive at Wiss, Janney, Elstner, a firm that studies construction-related failures. Why the Mexico City Metro Collapsed https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/12/world/americas/mexico-city-train-crash.html?referringSource=articleShare — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/12/social-media-are-turbocharging-the-export-of-americas-political-culture Social media are turbocharging the export of America's political culture from TheEconomist — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://zoom.us/docs/doc/Hybrid_Office_Zoom.pdf

http://hsrc.in/backgroundFormationHSRC.html — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://www.projectsmonitor.com/pathfinders/dr-satish-chandra-agnihotri-director-rail-vikas-nigam/ — Best regards Seetha Ram

During the course of his research, which involved talking to German experts and their practices at IIT-M, Wittje found out that German faculties were quite specific on the type of character that IIT Madras should embody, as a technical institute. The paper also argues how Mechanical Engineering was and continues to remain the largest faculty at IIT-M. https://www.thehindu.com/society/iit-madras-connection-with-cold-war/article34541046.ece — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://www.thehindu.com/society/iit-madras-connection-with-cold-war/article34541046.ece — Best regards Seetha Ram

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal. The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ. — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://infogram.com/covid-19-among-other-causes-of-death-1h7g6k0j1wp902o?live  

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seikisho/53/4/53_139/_article — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://en.sip-adus.go.jp/evt/workshop2016/file/evt_ws2016_panel05_NextGenerationTransport03.pdf

https://swimswam.com/in-time-for-tokyo-taper-sega-announces-launch-of-official-olympic-video-game/ — Best regards Seetha Ram

https://www.boj.or.jp/en/research/brp/ron_2016/data/ron160121b.pdf

https://www.wionews.com/sports/joy-delay-and-torch-relay-tokyos-turbulent-olympic-timeline-373029 — Best regards Seetha Ram

http://www.uws.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/227057/The_Dirty_Dozen_A_Concise_Measure_of_the_Dark_Triad.pdf

https://radedasia.com/why-you-will-forget-more-than-half-of-what-you-learn-within-an-hour-and-how-to-change-that/ — Best regards Seetha Ram

Before the pandemic, tech companies tended to assume that one data problem was the same as another https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/3/22514951/pandemic-public-health-solutions-google-apple-facebook — Best regards Seetha Ram

"We need to meet in person to get meaningful work done." Well written.  https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/03/the-empty-office-what-we-lose-when-we-work-from-home?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=timestop10_daily_newsletter

This research shows how elephants "move both air and water to help manipulate different objects," which is a feat that robots still have difficulty performing, Mr. Schulz said. Elephant Trunks: Is There Anything They Can't Do? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/science/elephant-trunks-suction.html?referringSource=articleShare — Best regards Seetha Ram

http://www.ipss.go.jp/webj-ad/WebJournal.files/population/2003_4/ps_0304_6.pdf

That's a lesson The Seeker won't soon forget. "I no longer see science as an exclusive domain," he wrote to Newsweek. "Everyone can make a difference." https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-how-amateur-sleuths-broke-wuhan-lab-story-embarrassed-media-1596958

The WHO will use the  Greek alphabet  to refer to  variants of SARS-CoV-2 .  "Variants of concern"  first detected in Britain (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351), Brazil (P.1) and India (B.1.617.2) will be labelled Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta following the order in which they were first reported. It hopes the system will lessen the stigma on countries detecting new strains.