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Fast, efficient agricultural drones are replacing laborers on Indian farms — despite the expensive price tag. Arbab Ali & Nadeem Sarwar in Undark: Depending on the kind of sensor they’ve
Continue readingFor India’s Millions of Farm Workers, a ‘Drone Revolution’ Looms
From McKinsey Newsletter: If 2023 was the year of the manager and the launchpad for generative AI, what will 2024 bring for talent leaders? In a recent McKinsey Talks Talent
Anna Della Subin at the LRB: The earliest known author was married to the moon. In the 1920s, in the shadow of an anti-colonial uprising against British rule in Mesopotamia,
Sheema Mehkar in The Express Tribune: During a fundraising telethon for SKMCH, Imran Khan once said that when he started his campaign for building the charity cancer hospital and approached
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, PhD, Former President of the Republic of Mauritius, argues that the way we urbanize, the resilience of our infrastructure, and how ‘green’ we keep our buildings and landscapes
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Dr Baqar Hasnain writes in The Express Tribune: It’s a battle. No, it’s not Pakistan vs India. Never was. It’s the elite in Pakistan vs Pakistan. And in this battle,
From Negro Spirituals: The tunes and the beats of negro spirituals and Gospel songs are highly influenced by the music of their actual cultural environment. It means that their styles are
“A picture is worth a thousand words”, is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes multiple ideas can be conveyed by a single still image, which conveys
Faiq Zafar writes in Dawn:April 14, 1919. The sun rose on an India gashed and mutilated by a horrific display of brutality, the likes of which she had seldom seen
Nandini Das in The Guardian: Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireworld tells the story of Bartram and Kew as part of a nuanced, complicated account of the British empire’s impact on the world as we
Continue readingA Nuanced Account of the British Empire’s Impact on the World
McKenzie Prillaman in Nature: Lightning bolts of lime green flashed chaotically across the computer screen, a sight that stunned cancer neuroscientist Humsa Venkatesh. It was late 2017, and she was watching
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Rachel Kleinfeld at Persuasion: Last week, a widely-circulated analysis in the Financial Times confirmed what many researchers had long suspected: The ideological gap between men and women is growing. Over the past fifteen years,