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Caponera and Weinberg described how Sendak labored methodically, industriously, as if his life depended on it — which, in a way, it did. There were periods when Sendak stayed in
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Men claim restrictions meant to ‘protect’ women from political hostilities; ECP can void polls in areas where women are prevented from exercising voting Elections in Pakistan: Perched on her traditional
Continue readingElections 2024: Educated Women in a Village Barred From Voting by Husbands
Costica Bradatan in the TLS: On July 4, 1845, a man from Concord, Massachusetts, declared his own independence and went into the woods nearby. On the shore of a pond
Continue readingHow This Person Challenged Our Understanding of Work, Tech. and Natural World
“Plants can measure and react to a far broader spectrum of light than we can with our animal eyes, even though they lack a specialized organ for perception.” Asher Elbein
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Fast, efficient agricultural drones are replacing laborers on Indian farms — despite the expensive price tag. Arbab Ali & Nadeem Sarwar in Undark: Depending on the kind of sensor they’ve
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From McKinsey Newsletter: If 2023 was the year of the manager and the launchpad for generative AI, what will 2024 bring for talent leaders? In a recent McKinsey Talks Talent
Anna Della Subin at the LRB: The earliest known author was married to the moon. In the 1920s, in the shadow of an anti-colonial uprising against British rule in Mesopotamia,
Sheema Mehkar in The Express Tribune: During a fundraising telethon for SKMCH, Imran Khan once said that when he started his campaign for building the charity cancer hospital and approached
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, PhD, Former President of the Republic of Mauritius, argues that the way we urbanize, the resilience of our infrastructure, and how ‘green’ we keep our buildings and landscapes
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Dr Baqar Hasnain writes in The Express Tribune: It’s a battle. No, it’s not Pakistan vs India. Never was. It’s the elite in Pakistan vs Pakistan. And in this battle,
From Negro Spirituals: The tunes and the beats of negro spirituals and Gospel songs are highly influenced by the music of their actual cultural environment. It means that their styles are
“A picture is worth a thousand words”, is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes multiple ideas can be conveyed by a single still image, which conveys