How Mathematics Changed Me
If one is inclined toward mysteries, mathematics can lead one to the conclusion that behind the veil of life there is a structure and an order. Alec Wilkinson at The
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 is political; Thirst in economic; Thirst is cultural tradition, Thirst
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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, Will MacAskill is the greatest English writer since Shakespeare. He
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 (former East Pakistan) in 1974, and captured the feelings, having
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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. “His arguments are shaky.” Kieran Setiya in the Boston Review:
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 of different religions.Some of his most trusted generals were former
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 in his life. Wandering the streets of Beijing ten years
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 editor at Oxford University Press and I had just published
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How Some People React With Statues (Pics)
Curated by Irshad Salim, Karachi (Aug. 16, 2022)
Feeling is the Secret (1944)
Written in 1944, Feeling Is the Secret resounds with the full power of Neville Goddard’s mystical vision. One of the great metaphysical teachers of the 20th century, Goddard with total
Images That Could Be Album Covers
Story in pictures — could be album or book covers… FEATURED VIDEO: Curated by Irshad Salim, Karachi, Aug. 15. 2022
RETAIL GANGSTER: Crazy Eddie’s Life Was Insane!
Alexandra Jacobs at the NYT: The most famous TV ad in the Orwellian year of 1984, carefully themed to the novel named for this year, was for the Apple Macintosh
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