Author: DPstaff
Can Certain Foods Really Stave Off Dementia?
Amelia Nierenberg in The New York Times: Walnuts can improve cognitive function. Blueberries can boost memory. Fish oil…
Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life
Carl Zimmer in Quanta: Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists…
Let’s Say Someone Did Drop the Bomb. Then What?
That’s the cold-sweat-inducing premise of the two books, Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War” and Sarah Scoles’s…
Monday Poem: Death is Smoking My Cigars
by Charles Bukowski at Poetic Outlaws You know: I’m drunk once againherelistening to Tchaikovskyon the…
Sea and Earth
‘Swaying between atomic and spiritual disintegration.’ Miri Davidson in Sidecar: The far right wants to…
Gaza and the Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi in The Guardian: For people everywhere, myself included, the awful images that have…
It was Like ‘The Twilight Zone,’ But With O.J., it Was All Too Real
Rick Cleveland at Mississippi Today: No telling how many times this sports writer has made…
Inspiring Quotes From Famous Visual Artists
From cave art to contemporary art, humans have created the most outstanding works of art…
A Tale of Two Football Matches
by Engr. Habib Khan from Quetta: In my youth days, I happened to be in…
What We Get Wrong About Poverty
Nathan Cheek at Psyche: Imagine this upsetting scenario: two women are both suffering physical abuse…
The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think
Sunstein and Thaler in The New Yorker: In 1968, Tversky and Kahneman were both rising stars…