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Come walk with me through the bones of this bustling city.Time hedges its bets in the spit-spatter of this hustling city. On the streets, fragrance is rampant. Catharsis of us,
Continue readingThursday Poem: ‘Metropolis With Ghazal’ by Siddharth Dasgupta
Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Most economic debates are about income, not wealth. When we talk about income taxes, or welfare benefits, or labor’s share of national income, we’re talking about the
Continue readingA Little-understood Fact: There’s Not That Much Wealth in the World
by Jo Rodgers at New York Times: Walk down a side street in London’s diamond district and you might catch the scent of frankincense and agar wood as it drifts
Continue readingA London Jeweler Turns to Home Goods Made With Precious Metals
by Rashid Husain Syed at Globe and Mail: Pakistan, the nuclear-armed country that is the fifth most populous in the world, is on the cusp of a revolution – at
Meghan Daum in Substack: Alice Munro, considered one of the greatest short-story writers of modern times, was a monster. The world learned this on Sunday, within moments of the Toronto Star hitting “publish”
Continue readingWas Alice Munro an Art Monster? Or Just a Monster?
by Michael Ignatieff at Literary Review: Nearly three quarters of the world’s population, according to the experts, live in autocracies. Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc wants us to see the resemblances
Vijaya Ramachandran, Juzel Lloyd, and Seaver Wang at the Breakthrough Journal: Amongst the many energy-hungry technologies supporting modern society, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a major driver of energy
It’s the Little Thingsthe sparrow’s tender headthe dead possum on the roadthe pungent smell of the fresh creekin the summer when heat risesto the bridge that spans its widthand if
By Arik Kershenbaum at Literary Review: If a cow said, ‘Don’t eat me’, we wouldn’t. We seem to regard the capacity for language (by which we mean our kind of
Continue readingWhy Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: This is the third of a trio of reviews in which I take a brief detour into ants and collective behavior more generally. I
Of course, when my mother askedthat I give my wife a kiss for her, I did so,telling my wife, I am my mother, kissing you.My wife’s mother, it turns out,
Shared by Dr. Ghulam Mustafa (aka Qalandar), California: Mid summer burst … of tomatoes, peppers, and garden herbs. You won’t find it at your local Olive garden Revolutionary Mexican salad
Continue readingQalandar’s Recipes: If it Looks Good It Tastes Good