TWO VIDEOS On Communicating
The quality of communication can erode with too many layers: Try having as few layers as practically possible to communicate -like this one in the last scene of ‘Crocodile Dundee’
The Collateral Damage of Queen Elizabeth’s Glorious Reign
In Tina Brown’s “The Palace Papers,” other royals stand and wait, but what purpose do they serve? By Sam Knight in The New Yorker: The Queen is the only royal
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Hepatitis B and the Liver Cancer Endgame
Kristina Campbell in Nature: Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths globally — and although rates of death from most types of cancer are decreasing, liver cancer is
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
Trevor Quirk at Bookforum on Justin E. H. Smith’s Philosophical History Of The Internet: The first four nodes of ARPANET—the Department of Defense’s primeval internet—were connected in 1969, the very
Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History
Arundhati Roy’s Lecture at the University of Texas: Before I begin, I would like to say a few words about the war in Ukraine. I unequivocally condemn Russia’s invasion of
Artificial Intelligence is Creating a New Colonial World Order
An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before. Karen Hao in the MIT Technology Review: My husband
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‘Can you help me fight your friend so that I can concentrate on fighting you later?’
Marco D’Eramo in his recent article ‘Deglobalization’ published in the Side Bar wrote: “After the phone call between Biden and Xi on 18 March, an anchor on Chinese state television
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There’s More to Authoritarianism Than Cults of Personality
Krithika Varagur in The New Republic: It’s remarkable: For more than a year, it’s been impossible to describe any world leader as a version of the sitting U.S. president. Run
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A Theory of Why We’re All Going Nuts Online
Alan Jacobs in The New Atlantis: On January 6, 2021, Samuel Camargo posted a video on Instagram showing him struggling to break through a police barrier to get into the U.S.
Why Imran Khan’s Govt. Collapsed? Observers Comment.
“Imran Khan’s PTI-led coalition government in Islamabad collapsed due to their excessive reliance on charismatic leadership and his (Imran Khan) large fan-following –which could not compensate for very aggressive foreign
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Things Don’t Add Up
ISLAMABAD, MAR 18, 2022 – It all started (in Pakistan) with the “Mehengai” chorus.It was then replaced with the “US+EU vs China+Russia” narrative.Then came Khan’s “language issue”, and then the
‘The United States Can Do Whatever the Hell it Wants’
Reading Arundhati Roy politically: Some of this ideology one can take; much of it one may leave aside. But that her fiction gives us much insight into her world—the world
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