An Alternative to Breaking News, Report
Anita Jain in the Washington Times: In his latest book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, Fareed Zakaria proffers his own 21st-century spin on storied historian Eric Hobsbawm’s
Erik Baker in the Boston Review: One of the courses I teach is called “Science, Activism, and Political Conflict,” and one of my ambitions with that course is to show
Indonesia is the eighth-largest contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Therefore, its role in global decarbonization is increasingly critical. With historical trends indicating a potential doubling of its emissions
Continue readingTen Bold Moves to Indonesia Becoming a Global Beacon for Decarbonization
Things are growing strange these days,like Van Gogh’s yellow trees. Oh, do notbe surprised by these yellow immensities,how out of proportion things in the pictureseem. What you see in a
Is spiritualism and materialism paradoxical? Can they coexist? Is the inference that occult is akin to or similar to spiritualism a valid argument? The groupthink that “all-round and harmoniously developed
Continue readingDid the Occult Influence Karl Marx and Early Communism?
Rather than using concrete to channel away rainwater, it is best to work with nature to absorb, clean and use the water. Jack Marley at The Imagine Newsletter of The Conversation:
Continue readingCities and Homes Weren’t Built For This Climate
By Anatoly Liberman at OUP: The Hebrew word “hostages” can be translated into English as “children of surety,” and in many languages the word for “hostage” means both “security, pledge”
Mehdi Hasan at Zeteo: Despite President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s impassioned denials, and the self-censorship of the New York Times, almost four in 10 likely voters
Continue reading‘A Majority of Democratic Voters Believe Israel Is Committing Genocide’
By Peter Savodnik in The Free Press: It was probably January 2023 when Joseph Rose, a 49-year-old YouTuber from Tallahassee, Florida, realized God had sent him to Moscow. “I do
by John Allen Paulos at 3 Quarks Daily: An abstract paradox discussed by Yale economist Martin Shubik has a logical skeleton that can, perhaps surprisingly, be shrouded in human flesh
By Ama Ata Aidoo @ Poetry Foundation: Who was it saidthe reason whyyou never seeBlack Folks properlye-v-e-r on film or TVis ’cause White Folks“find them threatening”? Whopei! Abae-o-o-o! We always
Continue readingWednesday Poem: Images of Africa at Century’s End
By Rosemarie Bodenheimer (RB) & Philip Davis (PD) at OUP Blog: RB lives outside Boston in the United States, PD across the Mersey from Liverpool, England. We have never met