Category: Lifestyle

God And Insurance: Ten Comparisons Between Egypt And Germany

by Eric Schenck at 3 Quarks Daily: The longer you’re in a new country the more it becomes a relationship. It starts out wonderful…

Blast From the Past: Andy Rooney (of 60 Minutes Fame) Quotes

“I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. I’ve learned that when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.”

How Can Poor Countries Become Rich

The answer is neither small-scale, targeted interventions nor broad generalizations about growth. Instead, we should focus on firms.

A Palestinian Photographer Reflects on One Year of Life and Death in Gaza

Not all of Alghorra’s photos depict despair, plentiful as it is. In one photograph, a Palestinian teacher is seen drawing on a whiteboard in a makeshift classroom built under a tent.

How Colonial History Explains Why Strong Institutions Are Vital to a Country’s Prosperity

“The economists’ “groundbreaking research” has given us a “much deeper understanding of the root causes of why countries fail or succeed.”

Yuval Noah Harari on Why Christianity Became Popular

by Lex Fridman at YouTube: The following is a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari, a…

The Passion of the Elites

Among the topics discussed is the nature of symbolic capital; whether self interest and political idealism are necessarily contradictory…

Fats Are Actually Quite Useful

Besides storing energy as fat, lipids are best known for encircling and protecting every living cell on Earth. The molecules form an effective barrier…

On the Myth that Arabic Translations Merely Preserved Greek Literature

What is less well-known is that the point of translating foreign works was not to preserve them but to build on them.

I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT

This fall is the first in nearly 20 years that I am not returning to the classroom. For most of my career, I taught writing, literature, and language, primarily to university students.

What The Photographer Who’s Taken Hundreds Of Philosopher Portraits Really Thinks Of Philosophers

Steve Pyke is a renowned portrait photographer. He has published ten books, including the award-winning I Could Read the Sky.

Ten Ways to Spot Gen Z, According to ChatGPT

As of 2023, those born between 1997 and 2012 make up the largest generation in the world, but how easy are they to spot?