Category: Lifestyle
The Issue of Youth Unemployment and Underemployment is By No Means Exclusive to Bangladesh
Anna Barford at The Conversation: Jobs, of which 30% were reserved for independence war veterans…
I Asked Grok to Tell Us Why We Shouldn’t Worship Technology. Here’s Its Surprising Answer.
James Poulos at The Blaze: Grok, Elon Musk’s “frontier language model” accessible from right inside…
Can We Mitigate Climate Change and Protect Biodiversity Without Eliminating Meat Consumption?
By Ted Nordhaus at The Breakthrough Journal: As much as 60% of global agricultural emissions…
‘Life with Picasso’ & ‘La Collectionneuse’
Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico at Commonweal: We’re publishing these exchanges just about every two…
Monday Poetic Expression: A Night Alone in the Wilderness
By Erik Rittenberry at Poetic Outlaws: I march on. The soil is soft and sandy…
What a Courtroom Sketch Artist Sees
Tina Jordan at The New York Times Book Review: The sketch above appears in a…
A Passage From “The Killers”
“The Killers” is a short story by Charles Bukowski in his 1973 collection, South of No North. Bukowski, greatly influenced by Hemingway…
Overconfidence About Sentience is Everywhere—and it’s Dangerous
The Edge of Sentience, rather than offering Houdini-like escapes from uncertainty, is all about how to make evidence-based decisions in the face of uncertainty.
What Populism Is—And Isn’t
Populism, the rule of many, and authoritarianism, the rule of one, might seem like antipoles. But they are intimately related. Wherever populism appears, so do various forms of…
Random Thoughts: VIP Jr.
by Irshad Salim: The world as was –like an extra large pizza yummy pie, was…
When Henry Miller Met George Orwell: A Clash of Titans
George Orwell and Henry Miller, two of the most influential writers of the 20th century, had a single brief encounter in Paris in Dec. 1936. It has intrigued and baffled scholars and fans..
Why Britons Fell in Love With Suburban Life
Michael Gilson in Aeon Magazine: The Smiths had arrived on the Downham Estate, one of…