Author: DPstaff
Monday Poem: Song of a Masjid’s Floor
I sangto atoms emptied in a mother’s feetreplicating the prosody of Adhān itselfthe dust trembling…
John Jacob’s Amazing 19th Century Clock
Habib Khan, Quetta: The news that a clock manufactured by John Jacob –more than 150…
Sunday Poem: The Moon Rose Over the Bay. I Had a Lot of Feelings.
I am taken with the hot animalof my skin, grateful to swing my limbs and…
The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century
by Adele A. Wilby at 3 Quarks Daily: Many decades ago, I was fortunate to…
Telegram Creator Pavel Durov Used his Talents to Create a Russian Facebook, Organize College Beauty Contests, and Help Classmates Cheat on Exams
by Andrew Ryvkin at Air Mail: Pavel Durov, the Russian enfant terrible who created Telegram,…
A “42 Billion Dollar Begging Industry!”
by Syed Muzammil on YouTube: The huge begging network in Pakistan –claimed to be worth…
Some Brains Develop Alzheimer’s—Others Don’t. A New Cell Map Could Explain Why.
by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Alzheimer’s disease slowly takes over the mind. Long before…
James Carville On Trump, Harris, Clinton
Andrew Sullivan at The Weekly Dish: Carville needs no introduction, but he’s a legendary consultant,…
How Folktales Unsettle Us Into Thinking Anew
by Abigail Tulenko in Aeon Magazine: The Hungarian folktale Pretty Maid Ibronka terrified and tantalised…
The Challenge of Interviewing Kamala Harris
Jess Bidgood in the NY Times Newsletter: Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate,…
Democratic Disenchantment
Samuel Bagg in Boston Review: Can better decision-making procedures ever achieve real democracy?