BOOK: The Song of the Cell
Explaining difficult ideas in terms that are both straightforward and interesting GOOGLE READS: From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize,...
Arts
Art World to Mark 50 Years Since Pablo Picasso’s Death
The art world has mobilized to stage "an unprecedented" 42 exhibitions marking 50 years since Pablo Picasso's death, AFP reports....
How Mathematics Changed Me
If one is inclined toward mysteries, mathematics can lead one to the conclusion that behind the veil of life there...
How Arab Filmmakers Investigate the Desert and the Peninsula
Film curator, writer and academic Roisin Tapponi looks at how contemporary Arabic filmmakers use thirst to inspire their practices: Thirst...
What We Owe the Future
Scott Alexander in Astral Codex Ten: If the point of publishing a book is to have a public relations campaign,...
Nayyara Noor Renders Faiz Poem on Former East Pakistan (Video)
Nayyara Noor renders her voice with music to the poem written by Faiz Ahmed Faiz after his visit to Bangladesh...
Longtermism: The New Moral Mathematics
In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death....
Genghis Khan and the Mongols
9 Things You May Not Know About Genghis Khan: He installed one of the first international postal systems.He was tolerant...
Warhol’s Mao Turns Fifty
Billy Anania at Art In America: In 1982, a fifty-four-year-old Andy Warhol visited China for the first and only time...
Mountains Hidden by Clouds: A Conversation with Anuradha Roy
Pankaj Mishra at Paris Review: I met the novelist Anuradha Roy in Delhi in the mid-nineties, when she was an...
