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By Uzair Younus in the Atlantic Council: Pakistan’s electorate made themselves heard on February 8, when the country held general elections after months of delays. As results came in, it
Continue readingFive ways Imran Khan’s party used technology to outperform in elections
Jeremy Harte at Literary Review: …peasants will soon be as extinct as the aurochs and Irish elk. In western Europe, the proportion of the population employed in agriculture now stands
West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking Samuel Clowes Huneke in Boston Review: On August 31 (2020) President Trump told Fox News host
Samuel Moyn in Granta: Gerontocracy is as old as the world. For millennia, to greater or lesser degrees, it has been the default principle of governance, from ancient Greek city-states
Dawn.com looks at some of the reporting and analysis from across the globe on the elections that were, contrary to the pre-poll predictions, anything but predictable: The Guardian — The
Continue readingElections 2024: What the Intl. Media Had to Say
Rithika Ramamurthy and Ajay Singh Chaudhary in Non-Profit Quarterly: “Beyond Mere Survival”: A Conversation with Ajay Singh Chaudhary” Rithika Ramamurthy: I want to talk about the central concept of your
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Adil Najam is a Pakistani academic, former Vice Chancellor @LifeAtLUMS (Pakistan). Presently, he serves as the global President of WWF, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, and is Dean Emerıtus and
Continue readingElections in Pakistan: Adil Najam Shares His Views
Nora Bradford in Quanta: Whenever you’re actively performing a task — say, lifting weights at the gym or taking a hard exam — the parts of your brain required to
Continue readingWhat Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything
Scharon Harding in Ars Technica: A 200-foot AM radio tower has been missing for at least a week, leaving an Alabama radio station in a financial crisis and on a
Continue reading200-foot Radio Tower Disappears, Halting Alabama Station Broadcast
Benj Edwards in Ars Technica: On Sunday, a report from the South China Morning Post revealed a significant financial loss suffered by a multinational company’s Hong Kong office, amounting to HK$200 million
Continue readingDeepfake Scammer Walks Off With $25 Million in First-of-its-kind AI Heist
Morgan Meis writes at Slant Books: Robert Irwin died a few months ago. He was 95 years old, so this was not a great tragedy. I didn’t know the man
Continue readingArt as Experience: Robert Irwin’s “Untitled (Acrylic Column)”
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