Scientists succeed for first time growing plants in soil from the moon
University of Florida scientists have managed to grow plants in lunar soil for the first time ever, setting the stage...
Month: May 2022
Living Beyond Means Syndrome: Responsibility Lies With the Civil Society
Syed Shabbar Zaidi writes in The Business Recorder: Pakistan is one of the 52 countries facing a severe debt crisis....
Ram Manikkalingam on the situation in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s ruling family in fight for survival as crisis worsens: His beloved villa has been daubed in graffiti by...
5 Point Economic Plan
Yousuf Nazar @YousufNazar on Twitter discusses his 5 point economic plan:#1. Increase gasoline prices, remove tax exemptions/subsidies (for Rs800 billion)...
A Self-Taught Artist’s Mastery and Pain
Matthew Wong was a brilliant Canadian painter who died by suicide at the age of thirty-five, just before the start...
Abandoned Places
Some images of abandoned & deserted places, etc. from all over the world: Decaying train on the bridge Abandoned cruise...
Why Europeans Colonized America Before Africa
By Tomas Pueyo in Unchartered Territories: Europe is geographically much closer to Africa than America. Northern Africa has been part...
Dual-national overseas Pakistanis can’t vote anymore
Khan’s government in November 2021 had allowed overseas Pakistanis (including dual nationals) to cast their ballot: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz...
NATO’s Philosophers
Santiago Zabala and Claudio Gallo at Aljazeera: In a recent article – Putin’s philosophers: Who inspired him to invade Ukraine? – we...
The danger Pakistan faces today is of democratic backsliding
Maleeha Lodhi in Dawn: Polarization today characterizes the country. There are few if any precedents of this even though divisive...
