Author: DPstaff

Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet

The problem is that investment is driven by profit, not price, and operating solar and wind farms remains a marginal business…

Knights Templar: The Powerful Military Order During the Crusades

Their skill as warriors, their financial acumen, and the legends of their hidden riches continue to captivate imaginations worldwide.

Four Connections Between Emily Dickinson and Franz Kafka

The fourth connection might be responsible for half of the world’s creativity…

Is There Really a Plot to Use Migrants to Turn America Blue?

A top GOP talking point of this election is that Democrats are rigging the vote through illegal immigration. Is there any truth to it?

26th Amendment: Drafted Elsewhere, Deliberated by a Select Few, Passed in Supreme Haste

Umair Javed in Dawn: (T)his amendment carries the element of being person-specific, at least in the current moment.

Tracy Calder on Why We Need to Keep Dreaming

‘The Germans have a phrase for the sense of panic many of us feel when a goal is within our reach: Torschlusspanik’.

Poem: My Motherland is That Place

Javed Rahman: I will go back to that land again. The place where I was born. Away from this foreign strand. To the land whose loyalty I have sworn.

‘Universe 25’: The Rat Colony Experiment

This ‘Universe 25’ idea comes from American scientist John Calhoun. He creates an ‘ideal world’ where rats will live and breed.

‘Yin,’ ‘Yang’ and the ‘Dao’: “Xi Jinping Thought”

Xi has reversed the pragmatic “learn from practice” approach of Deng Xiaoping’s “reform and opening up”.

This Intricate Map of a Fruit Fly Brain Could Signal a Revolution in Neuroscience

The project could represent a formidable step towards better understanding brain diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s.

Are You a Platonist or an Aristotelian?

“Our culture today is likely to push you to be a Platonist…this is certainly convenient for businesses and political parties…but it can also…”

Fall of the Aztecs

The collapse of the Aztec civilization remains a profound turning point in history, symbolizing the devastating effects of colonial conquest and cultural transformation.