Category: Insight
Noam Chomsky on Consciousness
Noam Chomsky, an intellectual giant, ‘who was on Richard Nixon’s enemies list’, shares his views…
Steven Pinker: How Language Influences Your Brain
Harvard educated professor Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive scientist, psychologist, psycholinguist, and a…
Will Artificial Intelligence Kill College Writing?
Jeff Schatten in The Chronicle of Higher Education: When I was a kid, my favorite…
Are soul mates real, according to science?
Amir Levine in The Washington Post: For humans, biologically speaking, soul mates are entirely real. But…
BOOK: The Song of the Cell
Explaining difficult ideas in terms that are both straightforward and interesting GOOGLE READS: From the…
Humanity Was Stagnant For Millennia — Then Something Big Changed 150 Years Ago
“Do we indeed have to worry more about how to utilize our wealth, and less…
How Mathematics Changed Me
If one is inclined toward mysteries, mathematics can lead one to the conclusion that behind…
How AI Distorts Decision-Making and Makes Dictators More Dangerous
Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman, and Jeremy Wallace in Foreign Affairs: In policy circles, discussions about…
WATCH Some ‘Floating’ Ideas: A Hospital in Pakistan, A City in the Pacific, Iqbal Solar Park, Water From Ocean, Etc.
Curated by Irshad Salim (2020~) Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Ajaz Ahmed, Ammar Jafri, Anwar Abbas,…
What We Owe the Future
Scott Alexander in Astral Codex Ten: If the point of publishing a book is to…
Longtermism: The New Moral Mathematics
In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than…
The Idiots, Tribes People, the Citizen Personalities (Video)
Watch and listen to Dr. Kethoser Kevichusa (of Nagaland, India) discuss how the Greeks looked…