The School That Was a Ray of Light in Apartheid
The progressive and remarkably innovative Woodmead School briefly flourished amid the viciousness of apartheid South Africa.
Nostalgic Smiles: Habib Khan Memoir
While returning from my morning walk, I listen to some old songs recorded on my…
Democracy Disconnected: The Power Struggle in Pakistan
by Irshad Salim: This morning as I shared my views in a WhatsApp Forum: “The…
The Eternal NOW
Poets and mystics had come to realize that Eternity exists outside the constraints of time and matter. It wasn’t some infinite future paradise.
Why Aryan Migration Theorists Ignore Bhirrana?
Bhirrana, situated on the Sarasvati river, is a small (190×240 meters) human settlement but a very significant one dating back to 8000 BCE.
Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
Successful geoengineering experiments could put a pause on or slow down the warming of Earth’s climate, buying time for decarbonization…
You Won’t Believe This: Researchers are Trying to “Inoculate” People Against Misinformation
Kai Kupferschmidt in Science: Inoculation, also called “prebunking,” is just one of several techniques researchers are testing…
2025 Will Be the Year of Billions of AI Agents
From ChatGPT to a billion agents: I expect that in 2025, we will have systems that people look at, even people who…
Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s life story isn’t widely known and few of us would be able to identify him from a photograph.
The Philosophical Debate on ‘TIME’ Continues: A Century Later
Matyáš Moravec at SciTech Daily: Is Time an Illusion? How Logic Challenges Our Understanding of Reality.
Why Some Human Brains Don’t Rot for Thousands of Years
The brain is our most energy-greedy organ, and in the hours after death, its enzymes typically devour it from within…
The Renaissance In Drawing
Two exhibitions reveal how, for the great Renaissance artists, drawing was both a tool for making paintings and a form of self-expression