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 ship to house migrants… Second audio leak in a week…Khan, party leaders purportedly discuss cypher…Offers prayers in chopper: VideoDAWN: State has means to know whatContinue reading “SEP 2022 As the World Turns…”
Monthly Archives: September 2022
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 growth, anthropogenic climate change, and the awareness of dwindling petrochemical resources are becoming more widely known. AZO MATERIALS There’s a vibrant “titanium economy” made upContinue reading “What’s ‘the Titanium Economy?’”
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 grey volcanic rock pyramids and their encircling stonewalls like something that Mother Nature had wrought herself. Located in Cañada de La Virgen (The Valley ofContinue reading “Mexico’s 1,500-Year-Old Unknown Pyramids”
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 was visiting the capital of Tehran, coming from the Kurdish province in the country’s northwest, and Iran’s so-called morality police detained her, allegedly for wearing theContinue reading “Why Iranian Women are Risking Everything By Burning Their Hijabs”
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, Arif Mirza, Aziz Ahmed, Bawar Tawfik, Dr. Razzak Ladha, Dr. Syed M. Ali, G. R. Baloch, Hasham Saddique, Jamil Usman, Jawed Ahmed, Ishaq Saqi, KhalidContinue reading “Noam Chomsky on Consciousness”
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, multibillionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are off taking joyrides on rocket ships to outer space, buying $500m super-yachts and living inContinue reading “Bernie Sanders: Three Multibillionaires Own More Wealth Than the Bottom Half of American Society (Video)”
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 Nobel Peace Prize in 2019. A year later, his army was implicated in human-rights atrocities. By Jon Lee Anderson at The New Yorker: At theContinue reading “Did a Nobel Peace Laureate Stoke a Civil War?”
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 civic friends,” the Aristotelian philosopher Paul Ludwig writes, “when they share an agreement about important practical matters: preeminently, they agree about the regime, their political system.”Continue reading “Servants No Longer: On Civic Friendship”
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 introduction to the field includes thoughts on the evolution of spoken language and the debate over the existence of an innate universal grammar, as wellContinue reading “Steven Pinker: How Language Influences Your Brain”