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There’s this group of nerds called ICANN—the Internet. Its a non-profit Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and they have handed out seven keys to seven individuals spread across the
Continue readingThe Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
Dana Brown goes in search of the long-lost media power lunch—and finds it’s alive and well at Michael’s, a Manhattan restaurant that still feels exactly like it did 30 years
Gibran’s closest counterpart today is the Brazilian sage Paulo Coelho, and his books have sold nearly a hundred million copies. Joan Acocella at Literary Hub: What made The Prophet so fantastically successful?
Continue readingHow “The Prophet” Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America
Culture war narratives give Google’s organizational coherence a bit too much credit. There’s more to the story. by Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology: It’s not like artificial intelligence caught Sundar
Einstein’s theory of relativity does not openly endorse time travel to the past, in fact, impossible. An effect cannot occur before its cause. Einstein on Time: In 1900, at age
Continue readingHow Time Works: Did the Future Already Happen?
“Her Tate Modern retrospective delights me with its mixture of silliness and profundity.“ Tracey Thorn at The New Statesman writes: Halfway round the new “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind”
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Complying with Labor Laws–more specifically minimum wage rate and benefits is generally a music to the ears in this part of the region –MNCs (Multinational Corps.)
From 7News Spotlight: It is now beyond doubt that strange, anomalous objects filling our skies and caught on camera are the real deal. Even the Pentagon admits it’s true. These
Martin Tyrrell at the Dublin Review of Books: Eileen O’Shaughnessy married George Orwell in 1936 and remained married to him until her unexpected and untimely death in 1945. Anna Funder’s Wifedom is
The United States has the most expensive transportation infrastructure in the world and that’s because we refuse to learn from experts, other countries, and our own history –Alon Levy Alon
To acknowledge our ancestors meanswe are aware that we did not makeourselves, that the line stretchesall the way back, perhaps, to God; orto Gods. We remember them because itis an
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Back in December, a poetic expression of emotive thoughts on Israel’s Gaza invasion enabled me to curate this clip (below) –selecting what’s available on the Internet