Imran Khan and his People: A Love Story
Sheema Mehkar in The Express Tribune: During a fundraising telethon for SKMCH, Imran Khan once said that when he started his campaign for building the charity cancer hospital and approached
Should We Attribute All Climate-Related Disasters Only to Global Warming?
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, PhD, Former President of the Republic of Mauritius, argues that the way we urbanize, the resilience of our infrastructure, and how ‘green’ we keep our buildings and landscapes
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Pakistan Will Lose Again
Dr Baqar Hasnain writes in The Express Tribune: It’s a battle. No, it’s not Pakistan vs India. Never was. It’s the elite in Pakistan vs Pakistan. And in this battle,
Black History: Tunes and Beats Before 1865
From Negro Spirituals: The tunes and the beats of negro spirituals and Gospel songs are highly influenced by the music of their actual cultural environment. It means that their styles are
Story In Pictures: TWO Rainbows
“A picture is worth a thousand words”, is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes multiple ideas can be conveyed by a single still image, which conveys
Will Pakistan’s ‘Nazuk Mor’ Ever End?
Faiq Zafar writes in Dawn:April 14, 1919. The sun rose on an India gashed and mutilated by a horrific display of brutality, the likes of which she had seldom seen
A Nuanced Account of the British Empire’s Impact on the World
Nandini Das in The Guardian: Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireworld tells the story of Bartram and Kew as part of a nuanced, complicated account of the British empire’s impact on the world as we
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How Cancer Hijacks the Nervous System to Grow and Spread
McKenzie Prillaman in Nature: Lightning bolts of lime green flashed chaotically across the computer screen, a sight that stunned cancer neuroscientist Humsa Venkatesh. It was late 2017, and she was watching
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Why Men Are Drifting to the Far Right
Rachel Kleinfeld at Persuasion: Last week, a widely-circulated analysis in the Financial Times confirmed what many researchers had long suspected: The ideological gap between men and women is growing. Over the past fifteen years,
How Asia Can Unlock $800 Billion of Climate Financing
A survey of 19 countries in Asia revealed important gaps in data, disclosures, and taxonomies, and that these are exacerbated by inconsistent national climate policies that can promote fossil fuel
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In China, Clean Energy is NOW the Driver of Economic Growth
Adam Tooze at Chartbook: As data from the IEA confirm, the scale of China’s green energy push in the last couple of years dwarfs the much ballyhooed green energy programs
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War, AI and the New Global Arms Race
Lethal drones with facial recognition, armed robots, autonomous fighter jets: we’re at the dawn of a new age of AI-powered warfare, says technologist Alexandr Wang. He explores why data will