Category: Insight
Nuclear-Armed Powers Squander $156,000 Every Minute on Their ‘MAD’ Policy
By Baher Kamal at IPS: They call it MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction. It is about…
The Perils Of Smashing The Past
Recalling the Italian futurists’ embrace of aggressive disruption. Nathan Gardels in Noema Magazine: “Move fast…
Thinking Like a Scientist Will Make You Happier
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili (of Iraqi descent) explains how to get out from under the cloud…
When Jawaharlal Nehru Read ‘Lolita’ to Decide Whether an ‘Obscene’ Book Should Be Allowed in India
After a consignment of Vladimir Nabokov’s famed book landed on Indian shores, a debate over…
A Google Engineer Claims One of Their AIs Has Become Sentient
Blake Lemoine, the software engineer, reported this to the US government and was subsequently suspended…
Sumerian Cuneiform Script and Social Media Emojis
TROPIC OF CANCER SERIES: Uruk is the oldest Sumerian city inhabited civilized city in the…
Doodle Chaos: Imran Khan, NAB (Video)
In fall 2018, I likened Imran Khan tenure to this video clip by Doodle Chaos…
The Democracy of the Future
Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories: In The Internet and Blockchain Will Kill Nation-States and The…
THE DEMOCRATIC PARADOX: Nearly All Democracies Uptil Now Have Been Democracies in Name Only
The right to say anything has been a challenge to every democracy that has ever…
“We’re losing the war against disinformation”
Ira Glass: The host of the influential radio program and podcast on the success of…
Google’s AI Is Smart Enough to Understand Your Humor
Imad Khan at CNET: Amid a flurry of new hardware including the Pixel 7, the…
Individual Action Can’t Solve Social Problems
by Martin Butler in 3QuarksDaily: A UK politician recently suggested that people could combat the…