The word “mindfulness” is sure starting to become popular these days, with stress, anxiety, and restlessness destroying people's peace in every way. Oh! What wouldn't I give to experience just one day without anxiety, overthinking, negativity, and stress headaches?

Less than two weeks ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a powerful new chatbot that can communicate in plain English using an updated version of its AI system. While versions of GPT have been around for a while, this model has crossed a threshold: It’s genuinely useful for a wide range of tasks, from creating software to generating business ideas to writing a wedding toast. While previous generations of the system could technically do these things, the quality of the outputs was much lower than that produced by an average human. The new model is much better, often startlingly so.

Digital life is augmenting human capacities and disrupting eons-old human activities. Code-driven systems have spread to more than half of the world’s inhabitants in ambient information and connectivity, offering previously unimagined opportunities and unprecedented threats. As emerging algorithm-driven artificial intelligence (AI) continues to spread, will people be better off than they are today?

Badminton is a court or lawn game played with lightweight rackets and a shuttlecock. Historically, the shuttlecock (also known as a “bird” or “birdie”) was a small cork hemisphere with 16 goose feathers attached and weighing about 0.17 ounces (5 grams). These types of shuttles may still be used in modern play, but shuttles made from synthetic materials are also allowed by the Badminton World Federation.

Bharatanatyam is the pinnacle of Indian classical dance that brings together music, art, and movement through the lens of storytelling. Formerly known as sādir up until the 1930s, Bharatanatyam is the most well-known Indian classical dance form practised in India today according to Janet O’Shea, professor in the Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance at UCLA. The idiom hails from Tamil Nadu and Madras State in Southern India, with roots in Tanjore temple dancing performed by dēvadāsis (translated as “servants of god”) as stated by internationally acclaimed Indian classical dance artist, Rajika Puri.