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Irshad Salim from Karachi: Quanta Magazine’s physics staff writer Charlie Wood describes some of the oddities and mysteries that swirl around the quantity that orders the universe and our lives
Continue readingHow Physicists and ‘Some of Us’ Are Exploring, Rethinking Time
Army of Shadows Matthew Mosley in Collider: Has anyone exerted as much influence over the spy genre as Ian Fleming? Examples of espionage fiction may have predated his transition from naval
Continue readingThe Best Spy Movie Ever Isn’t James Bond — It’s This
The prevalence of Fibonacci sequence in nature is not fully understood, but it is thought to be related to the efficiency of this pattern in packing and maximizing space, as
From “Sources of Life,” which was published in the Spring 2021 issue of The Point. Jackson’s essay “Prayer for a Just War” appeared in the June issue of Harper’s Magazine.
Forty-five years ago, Christopher Lasch identified Narcissism. It has become a defining feature of modern activism—“the ever-present, neurotic need to be recognized and affirmed.” Julia Friedman in Quillette: On my
Continue readingNarcissism is a Defining Feature of Modern Activism
David Horsey in Seattle Times: P.T. Barnum, the great 19th century showman, circus owner and hoax promoter, is quoted as saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Donald J. Trump, the
Continue readingTrump Sells Bibles; Evangelicals Sell Their Souls
by Zarrar Khuhro at Dawn: What’s really cute, of course, is that in 2019, the situation was quite the opposite. In July of that year, Maryam Nawaz Sharif held a
Continue readingWhy the Judges ‘Explosive’ Letter Will Likely Amount to Nothing
Mohsin Hamid at Georgetown University Global Dialogues: When it comes to our understanding of the world, we are all like the blind men in the story of the blind men
Engr. Habib Khan writes from Quetta: In the mid nineties, when the drug dealers started to make Hub their hub, I decided to hire a chowkidar and was introduced to
Sean Carroll in Preposterous Universe: Technology is changing the world, in good and bad ways. Artificial intelligence (AI), internet connectivity, biological engineering, and climate change are dramatically altering the parameters
As I see it: A religion that grants women more freedom and rights than most has been wrongly used to colonize them for far too long Dr Zainab Aman at
As a Jewish leftist born in Israel, I feel a profound sense of grief and defeat. Amira Hass in Hammer and Hope: I write these words from the West Bank
Continue readingThe Gaza Strip Has Been Destroyed. So Has Hope For A Fair Future.