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Sean Carroll in Preposterous Universe: Technology is changing the world, in good and bad ways. Artificial intelligence (AI), internet connectivity, biological engineering, and climate change are dramatically altering the parameters
As I see it: A religion that grants women more freedom and rights than most has been wrongly used to colonize them for far too long Dr Zainab Aman at
Behind the shaken-not-stirred-martini-drinking James Bond, there was Ian Fleming, whose real life was marked by glamour and tragedy in equal measure. Ian Fleming biography by Nicholas Shakespeare: Pico Iyer reviews
Continue readingLove and Let Die: Ian Fleming ‘The Complete Man’
Candida Moss in Time: It is an unlikely success story. A first century religious leader named Jesus was brutally executed as a criminal in first century Jerusalem. His death should have
Continue readingThe Hidden History of Those Who Wrote the Christian Story
Brian Owens in New Scientist: People of different nationalities appear to vary in their use of hand gestures, according to a study that seems to reinforce the idea that Italians, in
Continue readingYour Nationality May Influence How Much You Talk With Your Hands
Branko Milanović’s century-spanning intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins in The Nation: Branko Milanović’s
Continue readingThe Problematic Past, Present, and Future of Inequality Studies
John Whitfield in The Guardian: It is a familiar story: a small group of animals living in a wooded grassland begin, against all odds, to populate Earth. At first, they
Continue readingEmpire of the Ants: What Insect Supercolonies Can Teach Us
Nothing to do but work,…. Nothing to eat but food,Nothing to wear but clothes…. To keep one from going nude. Nothing to breathe but air,…. Quick as a flash it’s
Nobel Prize–winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan explores the science and charlatans of life-extension. Matt Reynolds in Wired: In one way or another, the superrich have always been trying to extend their lives.
Continue readingThe Keys to a Long Life Are Sleep and a Better Diet—and Money
Lawrence M. Krauss in Quillette: Frans de Waal, one of the world’s preeminent primatologists, passed away on 14 March 2024, at the age of 75. He was the Charles Howard
Continue readingOf Monkeys and Men: The Extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal
Nearly 30 years ago, in 1990s, I became a landowner for the first time in Sri Lanka when my father transferred his share of the land that he co-owned with
Continue readingBreaking Down Barriers to Women’s Land Rights Starts in Our Homes
The activists, who first met at Occupy Wall Street in 2011, talk about the limits of protest – and the power of connecting across difference to change the world Amy
Continue reading‘Organising is the Best Kind of Antidepressant’