Lament for the Declining Art of Editing
Damon Linker at Notes From the Middleground: Journalists have a name for an article written and published without the necessary curatorial oversight. It’s called a notebook dump. The reporter does
Damon Linker at Notes From the Middleground: Journalists have a name for an article written and published without the necessary curatorial oversight. It’s called a notebook dump. The reporter does
The world has sadly just lost one of its most provocative and inspirational thinkers and writers. Douglas Hofstadter at Marcus on AI: I just received the very sad news about
Continue readingDaniel Dennett, a Deep Thinker About What it is to Be Human. R.I.P.
Brad East in The Hedgehog Review: The conceit at the heart of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses novels is simple. There is a house in London for misfit spies. When MI5 is unable, for
Michelle Buckley, Paula Chakravartty in Boston Review: In December, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a personal request from his friend and political ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: expedite
Continue readingThe Israel-India Worker Deal Resembles British Indenture
McKinsey research shows that carbon dioxide removal, or CDR, could play a vital role in combating hard-to-abate emissions. These emissions are considered hard to abate because they come from activities
Continue readingDecarbonization is the Most Critical Response to Climate Change–But is it Enough?
by Isaac Grafstein at The Free Press: What, if anything, should we do about TikTok? Is the forced sale of the fastest-growing social media platform in the world a commonsense
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed ofvast ranges of experience, like the humming of unseen harps,we know nothing of, within us.Oh when man has escaped from the barbed-wire
Continue readingMonday Poem: Terra Incognita by D.H. Lawrence
B&W photography goes back to the fundamentals of what photography has always been. Take color out of the equation and focus on lines and form–you’ll get a lot of value
Continue readingBlack and White Photography Isn’t Old School For Same Old Stories
Benjamin Markovits at the New York Times: This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death. The most famous poet of his age (an odd phrase now) died fighting
Continue readingLord Byron Was Hard to Pin Down. That’s What Made Him Great.
Engr. Habib Khan from Quetta: This story is from a “walknic,” which of course is not an addition to the English dictionary but a combination of two word “walk” and
Directed by Naghmeh Pour & produced by Sara Samsøe Moghaddas at Aeon: Coinciding with the spring equinox, Nowruz marks the Persian new year, a festival of rebirth and renewal that’s
Continue readingA Beginner’s Guide to a Joyful Persian Tradition of Spring Renewal and Rebirth
“A Bald Man With Glasses Knows What He’s Doing” Irshad Salim, Karachi: I was reading a piece this morning on comedian Larry David’s stoicism with baldness, beardness, glassness (wearing glasses),