A Theoretical ‘Case Against Education’
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: There’s been renewed debate around Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education recently, so I want to discuss one way I think about this question. Education isn’t
Fish Around the World are Shrinking
By Devika Rao in The Week: The world’s fish supply is getting smaller, physically. A study published in the journal Science said that body size trends “varied across communities,” but
What If Trump Is Right About America?
Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark: It’s time to ask some hard questions about ourselves. 1. Donny from the Bronx One of the Trump campaign’s beliefs about 2024 is that
Nigeria: ‘Corrupt Leaders Have No Tribe But United By Common Greed’
By Greenbarge Reporters: Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukayode, has said that corrupt political leaders have no tribe, religion but are bound together by their
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Saturday Poem: Another Night in the Ruins
1In the eveninghaze darkening on the hills,purple of the eternal,a last bird crosses over,‘flop flop,’ adoringonly the instant. 2Nine years ago,in a plane that rumbled all nightabove the Atlantic,I could
Call for Ban on Rs5,000 Banknotes
–The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce (OICCI) has called for a ban on Rs5,000 banknotes to prevent currency circulation… –OICCI has also suggested making the national tax number (NTN) mandatory
The Year of Singing Politically: Eurovision Song Contest 2024, Sweden
By Philip V. Bohlman at OUP: Welcome to the show. Let everybody know I’m done playin’ the game. I’ll break out of the chains. —Nemo, “The Code,” winning song of
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Translating is Like X-raying a Book. You Get a Deep Tissue Read.
Hephzibah Anderson in The Guardian: Sam Taylor, 53, was living in rural France with four well-received novels to his name when he realised that he wasn’t going to be able
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Why the OpenAI Team In Charge of Safeguarding Humanity Imploded
Sigal Samuel at Vox: For months, OpenAI has been losing employees who care deeply about making sure AI is safe. Now, the company is positively hemorrhaging them. Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike
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“The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction”
Soni Wadhwa in the Asian Review of Books: Detective fiction in the West is often grouped with crime fiction and thrillers; but in detective fiction, the focus is on a
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The Art Of Ed Ruscha
“Dead Serious About Being Nonsensical” David Platzker at Artforum: Ruscha’s avant-garde proclivities surfaced in his first pagework as a member of the group Students Five, a collective of friends—Joe Good,
Friday Poem: Radio
I think I forgot to turnoff the radio whenI left my mother’swomb In Hasidic Judaismit is said that before weare born an angelenters the womb,strikes us on themouthand we forget