A Nazi Magazine Regularly Published Manipulated Photos and Misinformation, Long Before the Age of AI

by Daniel H. Magilow at The Conversation: (A)ccusations – that fake-looking images are real, that…

A Fun Introduction to Public Choice Theory and Polycentricity

How does order emerge from anarchy? How do human beings create institutions? Can big problems like climate change, income inequality…

Sarcastic Quotes That Are the Perfect Mix of Witty and Clever

Chloe Nannenstad in Reader’s Digest: Love ’em or hate ’em, there’s a reason sarcasm quotes are…

Genome of Neanderthal Fossil Reveals Lost Tribe Cut Off For Millennia

Alison George in New Scientist: Genetic analysis of a Neanderthal fossil found in France reveals…

Aldous Huxley: On Truth and the Nature of Spiritual Reality

From Poetic Outlaws: In religious literature the word ‘truth’ is used indiscriminately in at least…

Sunday Poem: A Poetry By Pablo Neruda

And it was at that age… Poetry arrivedin search of me. I don’t know, I…

What is Education?

Shared by Jawaid Ahmed of Back2School Forum, ISB: تعلیم کیا ہے؟ دوسری جنگ عظیم کے…

Saturday Poem: Money Ghazal

Easy new habits—gain weight, lose money.Mamma said, Don’t wed for love. Choose money. Life is…

The Surprising Role of Deep Thinking in Conspiracy Theories

by Stephen Gadsby and Sander Van de Cruys at Psyche: Conspiracy theories are seemingly everywhere….

A New Trilemma Haunts the World Economy

by Dani Rodrik at Project Syndicate: I wrote a speculative article in 2000 on what…

Wednesday Poems: 3 By the Great Italian Poet, Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale, born in 1896 in Genoa, Italy, emerged as one of the 20th century’s foremost Italian poets, earning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975.

What September 11 Revealed

From The Free Press: The writer Jonathan Rosen looks back at a portent of the future.