Jazz Remains the Sound of Modernism
Ed Simon at The Millions: There are two irrefutable axioms that can be made about jazz. The first is that jazz is America’s most significant cultural contribution to the world;
The Promise of Precision Agriculture Is Slowly Coming to Fruition
Eric Schmid at Undark: For 20 years, Pablo Sobron sought a better way to learn exactly what was in the soil, rock, or any other substance on Mars. Instead of
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I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
Marisa Wright at The Millions: In Glynnis MacNicol’s second memoir, I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself, pleasure is political. The narrative follows the weeks MacNicol spent in Paris in late summer 2021
Lockdown Nostalgia: I Miss Only Caring About What Really Matters
by Tara Isabella Burton at Wisdom of Crowds: It is easy to be nostalgic for all kinds of unpleasant things. We are nostalgic for unhappy childhoods, brutal educational institutions, unhappy
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No, AI Doesn’t Mean Human-Made Music Is Doomed. Here’s Why.
by Alexander Crooke at Singularity Hub: One could argue AI is essentially a tool aimed at making our lives easier. Humans been been crafting such tools for a long time,
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Can You Inherit Memories From Your Ancestors?
Hannah Critchlow in The Guardian: Since the sequencing of the human genome in 2003, genetics has become one of the key frameworks for how we all think about ourselves. From fretting
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Jackfruit (Kathal)
This ancient tropical fruit is heart-healthy, may help fight inflammation and is a great meat substitute! Its benefits include being heart-healthy, and promoting wound healing. Grown in Asia, Africa and
Leo Strauss’ Published But Uncollected English Writings
Glenn Ellmers at The New Criterion: Can anyone help us understand the madness afflicting Western civilization? Art, for all its power, is usually better at reflecting or illuminating—rather than explaining—the
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Astronomers May Have Found Life Beyond Earth
By Peter Savodnik at The Free Press: We will soon know a little more thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, which NASA blasted into space on Christmas 2021 and
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The Irani Cafes of Karachi
Mishal Zahoor Jamali at Medium: Stepping into High Ceiling and dimly lit Irani cafes with vintage furniture, mosaic chipped floors and tablecloths take one back to old Karachi. These desolate
Confirmed. Most Robust Evidence Yet That Plant-based Diets Protect Both Human and Planetary Health.
Emma Bryce in Anthropocene Magazine: People who follow a diet rich in plants cut their mortality risk by almost a third, while simultaneously slashing the climate impact of their food by
Why Moral Progress Feels Annoying
Daniel Kelly at Aeon: It’s not that you don’t care about animal suffering. In other contexts, you actually care quite a bit – you would definitely do something if you