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Miryam Naddaf in Nature: Moving a prosthetic arm. Controlling a speaking avatar. Typing at speed. These are all things that people with paralysis have learnt to do using brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) —
Continue readingMind-reading Devices are Revealing the Brain’s Secrets
Irshad Salim: There is no “I” in the spelling of “team”… Teamwork makes the work easier: It can be creative, destructive though; If I’m not mistaken, there’s an “I” in
Leadership is a set of behaviors used to help people align their collective direction, to execute strategic plans, and to continually renew… Excerpt from a McKinsey article: All leaders, to
Why we should be concerned, above all, with the education of the passions. Alan Jacobs in The Hedgehog Review: Recently I happened to read, in the course of a single
William Deresiewicz in Salmagundi: Art is useless, said Wilde. Art is for art’s sake—that is, for beauty’s sake. But why do we possess a sense of beauty to begin with? A
Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Pakistan is a vast country of 231.4 million people. It’s one of only nine countries in the world with nuclear weapons. It’s located in South Asia,
UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq answers common questions about the UN’s budget, including how the UN gets its money, how it prevents fraud and waste, what is spent on humanitarian operations,
Jonathan S. Blake in Boston Review: In early 2022, the Economist decried “governments’ widespread new fondness for interventionism.” The state was “becoming bossier” and “more meddlesome,” it complained. In fact, the state’s punitive
Scientists say that when a thin sphere of liquid encloses air or another gas, it is called a ‘bubble’. Blowing bubbles has been and is a favorite pastime of many
Schopenhauer is not a reliable guide to the Upanishads. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad in IAI on Comparing Western and Indian philosophy: We find similar ideas of a transcendent ego in both Kant and
The real reason Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, Truman Capote’s guest of honor at the Black and White Ball, was the only “swan” he didn’t betray By Joseph Rodota in
Once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows René van Westen, Henk A. Dijkstra, and Michael Kliphuis in The Conversation: Instruments
Continue readingThe Atlantic Ocean is Headed for a Tipping Point