IMAGINEERING: Blast From the Past (Videos)
An idea of an auto (EV, Solar, Etc.) that can still work: Another idea that can work and make us have fun, enjoy: California in 1919. Didn’t watch any mishaps
Don’t Teach Your Kids to Fear the World
Arthur Brooks in The Atlantic: If you are a parent, your greatest fear in life is likely something happening to one of your kids. According to one 2018 poll from OnePoll and
How AI Distorts Decision-Making and Makes Dictators More Dangerous
Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman, and Jeremy Wallace in Foreign Affairs: In policy circles, discussions about artificial intelligence invariably pit China against the United States in a race for technological supremacy.
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Why Is Pakistan Drowning and China Drying?
Historic heatwave events increased 90-fold, meaning historic glacier melting –Pakistan has 7,000 glaciers, which means historic floods. In the Himalayas, most of the humid air drops its water on the
Six Months Before the US Withdrawal From Afghanistan, a Nonpartisan Study Group Warned…
Six Months Before the US Withdrawal From Afghanistan, a Congressionally-Created, Nonpartisan Study Group Warned: “A rash and rushed approach could increase the chances of a breakdown of order in Afghanistan.” By Ambassador
To Frontload Geoeconomy ‘Why Don’t We Get Oil and Gas From Iran?’ (Video)
As the global economy recovers from the turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic and grapples with disruptions caused by Ukraine war, governments see trade as a major part of its economic
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IMAGINEERING Houses Amid Climate Change Challenges Home & Abroad (Pics, Videos)
The Pakistan floods 2022 have woken the world up (including me) to the country’s acute climate change vulnerability. But this vulnerability has been on display for years. In 2010, climatologists
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AUG 2022 News, Views of Interest That You Might Have Missed…
GORBACHEV DEAD…Helped end Cold War…Last leader of USSR… 50,000 flood affectees arrive in Karachi; housed in relief camps…Maryam Nawaz called out for ‘attempting to channel’ Angelina Jolie… Iran sends drones
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One Man’s Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense
Artificial intelligence systems can process vast amounts of data in seconds, but they can’t make sense of the world or explain their decisions. David Ferrucci wants to change that. Steve
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WATCH Some ‘Floating’ Ideas: A Hospital in Pakistan, A City in the Pacific, Iqbal Solar Park, Water From Ocean, Etc.
Curated by Irshad Salim (2020~) Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Ajaz Ahmed, Ammar Jafri, Anwar Abbas, Arif Mirza, Aziz Ahmed, Bawar Tawfik, Dr. Razzak Ladha, G. R. Baloch, Jamil Usman, Jawed
UPDATE on Pakistan Floods 2022: Apathy vs. Sensibility, Proactiveness (Videos)
AUG. 31, 2022: Sindh PPP leader Manzoor Wassan hand signals some of the flood effected and stranded one’s to stay away from the boat he’s on. “It indicates the haplessness
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Pakistani Politicians Ride the Merry-Go-Round
by Abdul Moiz Jaferii in the Dawn: When the British created the penal code and the criminal laws and procedures through which they controlled the Indian subcontinent, they did so
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