The chapter discusses the shift in how people interact due to remote work, focusing on scheduled meetings and lack of spontaneous conversations. It transitions to the dominance of Indian American kids in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, attributing their success to parental emphasis on education and well-funded spelling bee infrastructure. The chapter also touches on extreme heat waves in India, the rise in orange juice futures prices, citrus greening impact on fruit trees in the US, and tensions between North and South Korea.

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