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Aluf Benn in Foreign Affairs: One bright day in April 1956, Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), drove south to Nahal Oz, a
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This video of the house by Roy Lichtenstein makes me question my eyes. As you walk around the piece, “House I”, it morphs and changes shape in a totally surreal
Continue readingThis Optical Illusion House Morphs, Changes Shape in a Totally Surreal Way
By Paris Brain Institute in SciTech Daily: Until now, researchers did not know where the wave of death is initiated in the cortex or whether it propagates homogeneously across all
Continue readingDeath’s Riddle: Scientists Decipher the Brain’s Final Signals
Mir Imran has a unique background in medicine and engineering, which became the foundation of his work in innovation and company building. After attending medical school, Mir began his career
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Four poems from ‘Sometime Somewhere’ -published by ‘Budding Talents’ organization, Karachi, in 1977:
by Joseph Shieber: Suppose that you’re sitting at a pristine, white desk and are presented with the following scene (graciously rendered by Google Bard from a description by me): How
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
Continue readingAmong the Wild Things: Maurice Sendak’s Fantastic Imagination
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
Continue readingPlants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells
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
Continue readingFor India’s Millions of Farm Workers, a ‘Drone Revolution’ Looms
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,