Author: dp2019

Shockwaves in the Global Order

While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging. Helena Cobban in the…

What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything

Nora Bradford in Quanta: Whenever you’re actively performing a task — say, lifting weights at…

Elections 2024: Educated Women in a Village Barred From Voting by Husbands

Men claim restrictions meant to ‘protect’ women from political hostilities; ECP can void polls in…

Is it True That Your Worldview is Structured By the Language You Speak?

James McElvenny in Aeon: Switching between languages, we may feel as if we are stepping…

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…

Why Do We Have Fingerprints? Here’s What the Science Says

While impressive, it’s not just to unlock a smartphone or catch a bad guy.Here are…

Isn’t There More Than Enough Wealth to Go Around?

by Oliver Waters: In last month’s column I criticized the ‘degrowth’ movement, which essentially proposes…

The Invisible Personality Disorder

by Mike Bendzela: Given that it affects about 2.4% of the population, most of you…

Social Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Healthcare Industry are Astounding

…and we’ve been ignoring them completely David Introcaso writes in The Hill: The social cost…

How One Police Officer Solved Eight Cold Cases in His Spare Time

‘Badass Detective’: Matt Hutchinson is a curious and determined Bay Area detective with a knack…

‘Clash of Empires’, ‘Clash of Civilizations’…and a Comment on ‘History’ Video

For Álvaro Enrigue, a novelist fascinated with historical detail, the first meeting of the Aztecs…