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Noam Chomsky on Consciousness

DPstaff September 28, 2022September 28, 2022

Noam Chomsky, an intellectual giant, ‘who was on Richard Nixon’s enemies list’, shares his views on consciousness and the mind: Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Adil Khan, Ajaz Ahmed, Anwar Abbas,

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Bernie Sanders: Three Multibillionaires Own More Wealth Than the Bottom Half of American Society (Video)

DPstaff September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

‘In the year 2022, three multibillionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of American society – 160 million Americans. This is unsustainable. While the working class falls further behind,

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Did a Nobel Peace Laureate Stoke a Civil War?

DPstaff September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

After Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, ended a decades-long border conflict, he was heralded as a unifier. Now critics accuse him of tearing the country apart. Abiy Ahmed won the

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Servants No Longer: On Civic Friendship

DPstaff September 25, 2022September 25, 2022

Chris Griswold in The Comment: Aristotle uses the term “civic friendship” to describe the bonds that emerge from a sense of common purpose in a shared political project. “Citizens are

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Steven Pinker: How Language Influences Your Brain

DPstaff September 25, 2022September 25, 2022

Harvard educated professor Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive scientist, psychologist, psycholinguist, and a public intellectual. He’s an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker’s

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Switching to Renewable Energy Could Save Trillions

DPstaff September 24, 2022September 24, 2022

Jonah Fisher at the BBC: Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy could save the world as much as $12tn (£10.2tn) by 2050, an Oxford University study says. The report said

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The Photographic Search for True Pakistan

DPstaff September 23, 2022September 24, 2022

Girls and kids are us – in Islamabad: Irshad Salim, Karachi. Pics and videos using Huawei cellphone, archived in 2021; Curated on Sep. 24, 2022. Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Adil

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Will Artificial Intelligence Kill College Writing?

DPstaff September 23, 2022September 23, 2022

Jeff Schatten in The Chronicle of Higher Education: When I was a kid, my favorite poem was Shel Silverstein’s “The Homework Machine,” which summed up my childhood fantasy: a machine

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LISTEN: Delhi Jama Masjid Imam’s Khutba in Sep. 2019

DPstaff September 23, 2022September 23, 2022

BLAST FROM THE PAST: An excerpt from Delhi Jama Masjid Imam’s khutba (speech) in Sep. 2019 -a month earlier PM Narendra Modi gave nod to his government for the illegal

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Ascent of I2U2: Acronym for USA, UAE, Israel, India

DPstaff September 22, 2022September 23, 2022

The Under Secretary of United States State Dept. on Tuesday Sep 20 convened I2U2 counterparts from India, the UAE, and Israel on the margins of the UN Gen. Assembly meeting

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Africa is Not a Country. Shift Your Understanding.

DPstaff September 20, 2022September 21, 2022

Africa is a region of 1.4 billion people and over 2,000 languages. News, entertainment, and even charity campaigns tend to promote a stereotypical image of Africa that ignores its nuance

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This Week’s Best Political Cartoons on Climate Change, Inflation, Queen’s Death

DPstaff September 20, 2022September 20, 2022

Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Adil Khan, Ajaz Ahmed, Ammar Jafri, Anwar Abbas, Arif Mirza, Aziz Ahmed, Bawar Tawfik, Dr. Razzak Ladha, Dr. Syed M. Ali, G. R. Baloch, Hasham Saddique,

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