How Money Laundering Works
Money laundering is basically just deleting your money’s search history. Of course, one has to first get large amounts of illegally acquired money before thinking about laundering it! by Delena
‘Artificial Intelligence’ is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
by Joseph Shieber: Discussions of artificial intelligence are hard to avoid. A recent Pew study, for example, found that 90% of Americans have heard at least something about artificial intelligence
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Political Correctness: How The Few Try To Rule Over The Many
Real democracy is not just about the rule of the majority, but the rule of rights…There isn’t really a difference in kind in what the dictators and political activist mobs
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Kharra Masala Fish (Fish With Tomatoes and Onions) Recipe
This utterly delicious recipe by Zainab Shah (published in NY Times) melds tomatoes, onions and a small cloud of spices into a delicious sauce. The ingredient list is long, but
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Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah After Gaza
Mishra is an Indian author based in the West and a staunch supporter of Israel’s victims. He is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and the author
Decoding the Ever-evolving Relationship of US and Pakistan
Friends today, foes tomorrow? Touqir Hussain writes at Dawn: Soon after the results started pouring in following the Feb 8 general elections in Pakistan, several members of the US Congress,
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The Moral Act is the Free Act
How freedom and morality are intertwined Dana Dragunoiu at the IAI: We think the consequences of our actions are key to whether they are morally right or wrong. However, for
Shorts: Buying Selling Shares; Happy Living
Happiness is a state of mind…it’s a choice. Someday you will meet the happiest version of you. And it will be worth it.
Scientists Will Never Find a Copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the Brain
Because your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer. Robert Epstein’s essay in Aeon: No matter how hard they
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Inventing Hindu Supremacy
Mihir Dalal in Aeon: To understand Narendra Modi’s India, it is instructive to grasp the ideas of the Hindu Right’s greatest ideologue, the world of British colonial India in which
The Mysteries and Quirks of Human Memory
There’s a reason we keep forgetting things, Charan Ranganath -a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of California, Davis, writes in “Why We Remember,” and we needn’t worry about it.
Three Women
Irshad Salim from Karachi: For months I have on my easel a canvas of three women drawn with a black marker. The painting remains unfinished though. Choice of colors and