Category: Insight
Steven Pinker: How Language Influences Your Brain
Harvard educated professor Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive scientist, psychologist, psycholinguist, and a…
Will Artificial Intelligence Kill College Writing?
Jeff Schatten in The Chronicle of Higher Education: When I was a kid, my favorite…
BOOK: The Song of the Cell
Explaining difficult ideas in terms that are both straightforward and interesting GOOGLE READS: From the…
Humanity Was Stagnant For Millennia — Then Something Big Changed 150 Years Ago
“Do we indeed have to worry more about how to utilize our wealth, and less…
How Mathematics Changed Me
If one is inclined toward mysteries, mathematics can lead one to the conclusion that behind…
How AI Distorts Decision-Making and Makes Dictators More Dangerous
Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman, and Jeremy Wallace in Foreign Affairs: In policy circles, discussions about…
WATCH Some ‘Floating’ Ideas: A Hospital in Pakistan, A City in the Pacific, Iqbal Solar Park, Water From Ocean, Etc.
Curated by Irshad Salim (2020~) Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Ajaz Ahmed, Ammar Jafri, Anwar Abbas,…
What We Owe the Future
Scott Alexander in Astral Codex Ten: If the point of publishing a book is to…
Longtermism: The New Moral Mathematics
In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than…
The Idiots, Tribes People, the Citizen Personalities (Video)
Watch and listen to Dr. Kethoser Kevichusa (of Nagaland, India) discuss how the Greeks looked…
Genghis Khan and the Mongols
9 Things You May Not Know About Genghis Khan: He installed one of the first…
Why Modern Medicine Can’t Work Without Stories
Polly Morland in The Guardian: Most of us over the age of 30 can remember the…