Month: January 2024

Deja Vu: What It Is and Why It Happens

Healthy people can experience this, but it can also be a symptom of a neurological…

Karachi: There’s Something in the Air

Like other cities in Pakistan, Karachi also faces a huge problem of poor solid waste…

Eiffel Tower topped pre-Covid visitor numbers in 2023

Tower also added new offerings such as guided tours and celebrity chef-cooked meals in its…

Feeding the World in 21st Century: ‘Cities Like Forests’

A leading proponent of vertical farming discusses how urban areas (DesPardes Editor’s note: like Karachi,…

Sham Elections

Faisal Siddiqi writes in Dawn: Symbols as the soul of elections: A 12-member bench of…

Carole Hooven: Why I Left Harvard

Carole Hooven in The Free Press: Since early December, the end of my 20-year career…

The Mathematician Who Finds Poetry in Math and Math in Poetry

Leila Sloman in Quanta Magazine: Sarah Hart has always had an eye for the covert ways…

8 Online Business Ideas That Generate Sustainable Revenue

With more people trying to make money online, thousands of articles give advice on how…

Lenin: What’s Left of the Revolutionary a Century after his Demise?

Mahir Ali in Dawn: AN intriguing triptych included in Iqbal’s second volume of verse, Baal-i-Jibreel,…

Do Political Ads Even Matter Anymore?

By Nick Corasaniti in The New York Times: In a presidential election year, no glowing…

The Motorcycle Diaries: Should We Love Che Guevara

Portrait of “the insurgent” as a  young man in The Motorcycle Diaries by Paul Berman in…

Love Letters to Stones

by Mary Hrovat in 3 Quarks Daily: I recently read the wonderfully ambiguous sentence, “The…