Japan, India and China have taken on the material trappings of modernism: skyscrapers, rail systems, telecoms networks, parliaments, judiciaries and, in some cases, ballot boxes.
And if the idea of starting a startup frightened me so much that I only did it out of necessity, there must be a lot of people who would be good at it but who are too intimidated to try.
A documentary has exposed how restaurants rank customers according to looks - and place the people they deem to be pleasing to the eye at the front while hiding the less attractive ones at the back.