Author: DPstaff
Can We Mitigate Climate Change and Protect Biodiversity Without Eliminating Meat Consumption?
By Ted Nordhaus at The Breakthrough Journal: As much as 60% of global agricultural emissions…
Wednesday Poem: What We Leave Behind
My father drank salt water mixed with airAnd sacrificed his legs and calloused hands at…
Six Reasons Why Artists Should Avoid Politics
The artist has access to a certain truth, a truth that is less about morality than it is about . . . what, exactly?
Enough Water Has Been Found to Cover the Surface of the Red Planet – But There’s a Catch
The team used the same techniques used to search for water on Earth, or to look for oil and gas. They were excited to make their discovery but…
Does Hasina’s Exit Mark the End of Bangladesh’s Political Dynasties?
For the moment, there may be an opportunity for Bangladesh to have fresh voices and faces in politics emerging from the student movement.
Galileo and the Pope
Arifa Noor at Dawn: As a journalist who has been slogging at it for decades, the talent and creativity of those who are using social media never ceases to amaze me.
Tuesday Poem: A Life Spent Reading
There is no shortage of good days.It is good lives that are hard to come…
Tejas Parasher on M.N. Roy and Parliamentary Democracy in Modern India
From the Journal of the History of Ideas: Tejas Parasher is Assistant Professor of Political…
Sunday Poem: War and Peace
“These are “poems” I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme…”
Memoir: After all a Special Project
Habib Khan, Quetta: Saindak has been the first Copper Gold project much before Reko Dik…
Why Plato Was Drawn to the Eleusinian Mysteries
For Plato, rationalists and mystics can walk the same path. He turns to the Eleusinian Mysteries to explain his ideas about knowledge.
200 Days and Still No Justice for Hind Rajab
It’s now been more than 200 days since Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her.