Lim Ji-hyun defected to South Korea in 2014 in pursuit of better life beyond the reach of the oppressive North. Although she missed her loved ones, she expressed no desire to return; captured defectors would rather kill themselves than return to a slow, painful death in the gulags. So when she went missing in 2017, no one expected her to resurface in a North Korean video, begging for forgiveness from Kim Jong-Un. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
