Category: Lifestyle
A Social Media Site For the Dead
In 2017, I decided to solve a longtime mystery about my family. It led me to a controversial pastime that consumes thousands—and has changed untold lives.
Shattered by Hanif Kureishi Review – Picking Up the Pieces
The Buddha of Suburbia author’s wildly inspiring memoir of illness and defiance
Can We Engineer Our Way Out of Climate Change?
Harvard Univ. reports engineering strategies: solar radiation management, carbon dioxide removal, and ocean fertilization, etc.
How Digital Life Threatens Our Capacity For Awe
In this tech-vexed age, our life on screens prevents us from experiencing the mysteries and transformative wonder of life.
Can We Keep Producing More Food in a Warmer World?
Can we reinvent agriculture for a low-carbon world without people going hungry? Change will be dirty at first but could get cleaner.
Ubuntu: ‘I am I When We Are’
Couple of years ago, the then Vice Chancellor of Balochistan Univ. of Info Tech. Engg. & Management Science (BUITEMS) Dr. Farooq Bazai…
Social Democracy, Immigration and the Working Class
Ahmari grapples with Sunkara’s argument that social democracy lost worker support by prioritizing capital interests…
The Precious Family Keepsakes That Hold Meaning For Generations
From Aeon: A family Bible, a cane knife and a piece of sheet metal recovered…
Krishnamurti: One Has to be an Outsider to Society
“There is no leader, there is no teacher, there is nobody to tell you what to do. You are alone in this mad brutal world.”
The Professor and the Politician
For Max Weber, only the most heroic figures could generate meaning in the world. Does his theory hold up today?
Why Social Scientists Must Embrace Chaos Theory
Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results. Instead they must embrace chaos theory.
Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet
The problem is that investment is driven by profit, not price, and operating solar and wind farms remains a marginal business…