Author: DPstaff
Sunday Poem: Loose Brick
Sophia Hall (age 14): “I hope that when people read my poetry, they find companionship and feel a little less alone.”
The Great Reset: Which Countries Are Not a Part of It?
Nomad Capitalist on the YouTube: “Go where you are treated best”. The Great Reset Initiative…
Who Do They Think They Are? When Extraordinary Writers Prove Fallible
The reader-writer relationship is a contract of sorts. But because the terms are not written down, there is much room in that contract for misinterpretation.
Yes, You Do Have to Tolerate the Intolerant
It has become fashionable to invoke Karl Popper’s “paradox of tolerance” to justify restrictions on free speech. That’s just plain wrong…
How Russia Trains its Deep Undercover Spies
Moscow’s elite ‘illegal’ sleeper agents pose as foreigners and live under false identities known as ‘legends,’ often for decades
Saturday Poem: The Complex Self
Why is it that I’ve tried so hardto forget?When I’ve spent so longtrying to remember.Then,…
These Scientists Are Battling Dangerous Superbugs With a ChatGPT-Like AI
by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Bacteria and antibiotics have been in a roughly century-long…
Virtual Reality Reboots History
Charles T. Rubin in The New Atlantis: Because of this renewed sense of urgency to…
Study Explores How Gossip Spreads in Social Networks
How many different types of people—colleagues, friends, taxi drivers, etc.—should we hear a piece of information from before we start sharing it as a true fact?
Friday Poem: True Story
I can’t escape the possibilityI was meant to own a Zambonibut got stuck with three…
Why Nuclear Power Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
M.V. Ramana at Literary Hub: I am scared about how fast climate change is disrupting…
‘Nobody Knows What I Know’: How a Loyal RSS Member Abandoned Hindu Nationalism
Rahul Bhatia in The Guardian: Running a finger over a row of books in a…