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If I had just a little bit of wisdomI should walk the Great Path and fear only straying from…… it.Though the way is quite broadPeople love shortcuts. The court is
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By Heather Green on Tristan Tzara: Survival and “Speaking Alone” at Poetry Foundation: “Speaking Alone” is a translation of the title poem from Tristan Tzara’s French poetry collection, Parler seul,
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New York Times: Dr. Chan is a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, and a co-author of “Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19.” Alina
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Irshad Salim, Karachi: An infographic (below) shows the intense impact of conflict in Middle East and Central Asian countries (including Pakistan I suspect)–the repercussions on their real GDP per capita
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Sam Kinchin-Smith in the LRB Blog: The coincidence of the centenary of Kafka’s death, on 3 June, and the publication of the first complete, uncensored English translation of his diaries a month
She looks at your papers.She asks your husband to step out.She asks you where your husband’s birthplace is.She is testing you. You answer: we were made in water in free-flowingsalt
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AFP report in Dawn: Critics and rights groups accused Modi of ramping up rhetoric against Muslims to unprecedented levels during his campaign in a bid to mobilise the Hindu majority.
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Particle physicists in search of the next theory of reality are consulting a mathematical structure that they know will never fail: a table of possibilities known as the S-matrix. Matt
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Christopher K. Tong at The Conversation: A recent restructuring of China’s cyberforce and a document leak exposing the activities of Chinese tech firm i-Soon have shed some light on how
By Theo Nicitopoulos at Singularity Hub: On a fall evening in 2022, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory were busy with the final stages of a planetary
The Conversation’s Curious Kids Podcast: Have you ever wondered how chameleons change color? And can they do this while they’re asleep? What about if they are able to dream? Does
Katherine Livingstone at The Conversation: Vegan and vegetarian diets are plant-based diets. Both include plant foods, such as fruits, vegetables, legumes and whole grains. But there are important differences, and
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