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Leah Jones in Yahoo News: Throughout cinematic history, legendary Black actors have shattered barriers and pioneered new standards of excellence through their groundbreaking work on screen and off. Their compelling performances not only entertained
Continue readingDenzel Washington: Black Actor Who Redefined Excellence in Hollywood
While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging. Helena Cobban in the Boston Review: Just days before October 7, President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan,
Nora Bradford in Quanta: Whenever you’re actively performing a task — say, lifting weights at the gym or taking a hard exam — the parts of your brain required to
Continue readingWhat Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything
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
James McElvenny in Aeon: Switching between languages, we may feel as if we are stepping from one world into another. Each language seemingly compels us to talk in a certain
Continue readingIs it True That Your Worldview is Structured By the Language You Speak?
Portrait of “the insurgent” as a young man in The Motorcycle Diaries by Paul Berman in Slate: The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of
Continue readingThe Motorcycle Diaries: Should We Love Che Guevara
by Mary Hrovat in 3 Quarks Daily: I recently read the wonderfully ambiguous sentence, “The love of stone is often unrequited” in Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s book Stone: An Ecology of
While impressive, it’s not just to unlock a smartphone or catch a bad guy.Here are 12 Surprising Facts About Fingerprints, Including Why We Even Have Them: by Amelia Harnish in
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by Oliver Waters: In last month’s column I criticized the ‘degrowth’ movement, which essentially proposes that we should produce and consume less stuff. This notion has some merit of course
Continue readingIsn’t There More Than Enough Wealth to Go Around?
by Mike Bendzela: Given that it affects about 2.4% of the population, most of you probably know someone with this disorder. Some of you may even have it yourselves. Continually
…and we’ve been ignoring them completely David Introcaso writes in The Hill: The social cost of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, considered the single most important measure in addressing the climate
Continue readingSocial Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Healthcare Industry are Astounding
‘Badass Detective’: Matt Hutchinson is a curious and determined Bay Area detective with a knack for solving decades-long cold cases in his free time. In the seven years Hutchinson has
Continue readingHow One Police Officer Solved Eight Cold Cases in His Spare Time