Author: DPstaff

Random Thoughts: About a Cool Check, POI, Etc.

Irshad Salim: 20+ years ago in the early 2000s, my neighbor Narku from Ghana who…

The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans

Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: On this episode, Razib talks about the April 2024 preprint…

A Palestinian, a Jew, and a Priest Walk Onto a Campus

Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark: You know how we fix the chaos at Columbia…

Friday Poem: The Return

When I returned to earth after forty thousand yearsthere were no more graves, no more…

The Will to Fight for a Cause

Throughout history, the most effective one’s have powered to victory on commitment to core values…

The Toys We Loved in the 1980s

Slinky Legend has it that the toy emerged in the 1940s when an American naval…

Is it Democratic to Disqualify a Popular Candidate From the Ballot?

Benjamin A. Schupmann at the Oxford University Press Blog: That a popular candidate could be…

As the World Turns: Thursday April 25, 2024

News, Views of Interest That You Might Have Missed… Biden Signs Foreign Aid, TikTok Bills……

Sahil Bloom: 7 Questions That Changed My Life

Glance: The greatest discoveries in life come not from finding the right answers, but from…

Dubai’s Freak Rain

Don’t blame it on cloud seeding – the storm was far too big to be…

Is the Gaza war Tearing US University Campuses Apart?

Joel Mathis, at The Week: Campus unrest over the war in Gaza “has reached a…

Thursday Poem: The New Battery Should Come Tomorrow

Got up this morning thinking about going to see my daughter.Which led to thinking about…