Thoughts On The Advice Pandemic
by Tom Cox at The Villager: In my experience, it is the people who seem most adamant that they know the correct way to live, and are most keen to
Saturday Poem: ‘Why I Write’ by Akshay
These words are for me,For I’m the one who’s hurting,I’m just healing myself. I often wonder why we can’t understand other’s poems sometimes, but deep down it is the one
Explosion in AI-driven Data Centres is Putting Pressure on the Grid
Eric Smalley at The Conversation: Asking ChatGPT a question is quite a bit different from searching on Google. This is for a number of reasons. But one that can be
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The Magical Thinking That Sustains Our Humanness
by Anna Badkhen at Aeon Magazine: Amadou is always tapping into a global knowledge of what keeps us alive, a people’s pharmacopoeia honed over millennia. When we first met, in
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Learning to Like the “Loneliest Justice”
Jonathan H. Adler at Reason: Since the Supreme Court term ended, there have been numerous articles on Justice Barrett, highlighting her independence and thoughtfulness, noting she is simultaneously quite conservative
Friday Poem: ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ by Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing
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Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell
Bradley and Casey Luskin in Evolution News: In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England (pictured above) has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life.
Philosophy Was Once Alive
Pranay Sanklecha at Aeon: ‘Why did you decide to study philosophy?’ asked the Harvard professor, sitting in the park in his cream linen suit. ‘Because I want to find out
The Problem With Pakistan’s Police
by Mahar Murrawat Hussain in Dawn: “You are men and women of violence,” proclaims Dave Grossman, a retired military officer, to eager police trainees in the award-winning documentary Do Not
Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time
by Quillette at YouTube: A narrated version of Frank Celia’s essay, published in Quillette on 17 June 2024
Bari Weiss: The Holiday from History Is Over
by Bari Weiss at The Free Press: On a recent Tuesday morning I found myself two kilometers from Gaza. Every few minutes we could hear the boom of a 155
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