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Jon Cohen in Science: When Alice Hughes downloaded a preprint from the server Research Square in September 2021, she could hardly believe her eyes. The study described a massive effort to survey
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Watch and listen to Dr. Kethoser Kevichusa (of Nagaland, India) discuss how the Greeks looked at the society in general: the idiot, the tribes people, and the citizen personalities. “Unfortunately,
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UPDATED: The French President’s recent internal speech “foretells the future events that are likely to take place,” a WhatsApp share says. “The opinions expressed are entirely those of the current
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IRSHAD SALIM: Visited a children’s soft skills coaching center in a Karachi suburb on Aug. 13, 2022. It was a back to school moments & memories thing with nostalgia. I
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9 Things You May Not Know About Genghis Khan: He installed one of the first international postal systems.He was tolerant of different religions.Some of his most trusted generals were former
IRSHAD SALIM — A recent article in Dawn opines that “Pakistan has immense latent capabilities…but its ruling elite must wake up to new realities –it has thrived on foreign largess…(but)
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Billy Anania at Art In America: In 1982, a fifty-four-year-old Andy Warhol visited China for the first and only time in his life. Wandering the streets of Beijing ten years
Illustrations By Irshad Salim (May 2021 – Aug 2022):
Adam Tooze in Foreign Policy: 2022 has been a year of dollar power—power that manifests itself in both overt and subtler forms. In the spring, the financial sanctions slapped on
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Gentlemen, I’m putting the two of you on the hot seat with me. I want that third alternative!—Captain James T. Kirk, USS Enterprise, Stardate 3289.8 by Michael Liss at 3QuarksDaily:
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