SEP 2022 As the World Turns…
Soldier who walked with Queen’s coffin found dead at Army barracks… ‘Metaverse’ children to replace real kids by 2050 and ‘help with overpopulation’… NY City close to deal for NORWEGIAN
What’s ‘the Titanium Economy?’
The future of the American economy is hiding in an unlikely place; valuable but unfamiliar. The world is transitioning to a post-fossil fuel zero-carbon economy as the effects of population
Mexico’s 1,500-Year-Old Unknown Pyramids
Built by indigenous masons, these 1,500-year-old pyramids are still standing strong, held together by sticky juice from the prickly pear cactus. By Lina Zeldovich at BBC: From a distance, the
Why Iranian Women are Risking Everything By Burning Their Hijabs
Jonathan Guyer in Vox: It was not an isolated incident of police violence in Iran. But the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody last week has captured the country’s attention. Amini
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Noam Chomsky on Consciousness
Noam Chomsky, an intellectual giant, ‘who was on Richard Nixon’s enemies list’, shares his views on consciousness and the mind: Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Adil Khan, Ajaz Ahmed, Anwar Abbas,
Bernie Sanders: Three Multibillionaires Own More Wealth Than the Bottom Half of American Society (Video)
‘In the year 2022, three multibillionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of American society – 160 million Americans. This is unsustainable. While the working class falls further behind,
Did a Nobel Peace Laureate Stoke a Civil War?
After Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, ended a decades-long border conflict, he was heralded as a unifier. Now critics accuse him of tearing the country apart. Abiy Ahmed won the
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Servants No Longer: On Civic Friendship
Chris Griswold in The Comment: Aristotle uses the term “civic friendship” to describe the bonds that emerge from a sense of common purpose in a shared political project. “Citizens are
Steven Pinker: How Language Influences Your Brain
Harvard educated professor Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive scientist, psychologist, psycholinguist, and a public intellectual. He’s an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker’s
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Switching to Renewable Energy Could Save Trillions
Jonah Fisher at the BBC: Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy could save the world as much as $12tn (£10.2tn) by 2050, an Oxford University study says. The report said
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The Photographic Search for True Pakistan
Girls and kids are us – in Islamabad: Irshad Salim, Karachi. Pics and videos using Huawei cellphone, archived in 2021; Curated on Sep. 24, 2022. Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Adil
Will Artificial Intelligence Kill College Writing?
Jeff Schatten in The Chronicle of Higher Education: When I was a kid, my favorite poem was Shel Silverstein’s “The Homework Machine,” which summed up my childhood fantasy: a machine
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