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The Pakistan floods 2022 have woken the world up (including me) to the country’s acute climate change vulnerability. But this vulnerability has been on display for years. In 2010, climatologists
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Curated by Irshad Salim (2020~) Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Ajaz Ahmed, Ammar Jafri, Anwar Abbas, Arif Mirza, Aziz Ahmed, Bawar Tawfik, Dr. Razzak Ladha, G. R. Baloch, Jamil Usman, Jawed
by Raji Jayaraman in 3QuarksDaily: In the last two decades the topic of inequality has entered the public discourse across a broad spectrum of issues, with an urgency that is
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Adam Tooze in Foreign Policy: 2022 has been a year of dollar power—power that manifests itself in both overt and subtler forms. In the spring, the financial sanctions slapped on
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Back in the 19th century, coal was the nation’s newfangled fuel source—and it faced the same resistance as wind and solar today. Clive Thompson in Smithsonian: Steven Preister’s house in Washington,
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IMAGINEERING: Cultural change is a prominent agenda item for most CEOs, as it is one of the most challenging aspects of an organizational transformation to execute—and sustain. Rishad Premji, the
Psychologist Susan Pinker explores new discoveries in the science of human nature. Susan Pinker’s column in the Wall Street Journal: The rags-to-riches story is such an enduring part of American
IMAGINEERING: Animation is a method in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation -as in the video below, images are drawn or painted by hand
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by Sarah Firisen at 3QuarksDaily: I recently started a new job. The process of looking and interviewing for this job was unlike any other I’ve been through because I now
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A SYMPOSIUM OF VIEWS: To what extent will the war in Ukraine, and the overwhelming global support for debilitating economic sanctions against Russia, lead to, first, a further decline in
Thomas Blanchet, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman of the Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley shares real-time data with graphs to show income & wealth inequality in the U.S. Income
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