The Mysteries and Quirks of Human Memory
There’s a reason we keep forgetting things, Charan Ranganath -a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of California, Davis, writes in “Why We Remember,” and we needn’t worry about it.
Three Women
Irshad Salim from Karachi: For months I have on my easel a canvas of three women drawn with a black marker. The painting remains unfinished though. Choice of colors and
The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
There’s this group of nerds called ICANN—the Internet. Its a non-profit Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and they have handed out seven keys to seven individuals spread across the
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Power-Lunch is Picking Up. Like It’s 1989!
Dana Brown goes in search of the long-lost media power lunch—and finds it’s alive and well at Michael’s, a Manhattan restaurant that still feels exactly like it did 30 years
How “The Prophet” Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America
Gibran’s closest counterpart today is the Brazilian sage Paulo Coelho, and his books have sold nearly a hundred million copies. Joan Acocella at Literary Hub: What made The Prophet so fantastically successful?
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Inside the Crisis at Google
Culture war narratives give Google’s organizational coherence a bit too much credit. There’s more to the story. by Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology: It’s not like artificial intelligence caught Sundar
How Time Works: Did the Future Already Happen?
Einstein’s theory of relativity does not openly endorse time travel to the past, in fact, impossible. An effect cannot occur before its cause. Einstein on Time: In 1900, at age
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“Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind”
“Her Tate Modern retrospective delights me with its mixture of silliness and profundity.“ Tracey Thorn at The New Statesman writes: Halfway round the new “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind”
Bangladesh Nobel Laureate Dr. Yunus
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Complying with Labor Laws–more specifically minimum wage rate and benefits is generally a music to the ears in this part of the region –MNCs (Multinational Corps.)
The UFO Phenomenon: “If aliens revealed themselves, people would panic and hoard toilet paper”
From 7News Spotlight: It is now beyond doubt that strange, anomalous objects filling our skies and caught on camera are the real deal. Even the Pentagon admits it’s true. These