The Babylonian Map: How Researchers Finally Solved the Puzzle of the Oldest Known Map of the World
From Aeon Magazine: This instalment from the British Museum video series Curator’s Corner focuses on…
Scientists Say They Can Uncover New Levels of Physical Reality
Three scientists from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece published a paper that details this slightly altered take on Einstein’s magnum opus.
The War on Genius: Literature and Its Systems
What is a novel, or any work of art, but the product of its time, of commerce? What is it but another colorful consumer unit…
The Human Costs of the Research-Assessment Culture
Large-scale evaluation permeates the UK university system, but some countries are rejecting harsh judgements and emphasizing strategic development.
Tuesday Poem: Sparrow’s Flight
A breeze slowed sparrow’s flightday was saying goodbye. sparrow took refuge…night knelt behind the yews….
Zhou Enlai: Made By the Revolution
Historian Chen Jian has published a monumental biography of Zhou Enlai that makes him the pre-eminent scholar of the contemporary Chinese diaspora.
Monday Poem: Please
Please be kindHave patience with othersThey may not be like you Please listenTake time to…
Rasul Hamzatov’s Birthday
Habib Khan, Quetta: Some say that a translation is like the underside of a carpet,…
Sunday Poem: Six Steps to Becoming a Fossil
by Maddie Malone (age 14): through steam rising in the kitchen. Thank you. I mutter, swimming into a cloud of dew.
Till Death Do Us Part
by Mark Seal at Air Mail: It is a case that shocked the seemingly unshockable…
Army Public School Shaheed’s Letter From Heaven
Shared by Aftab Rizvi: ۱۶ دسمبر ۲۰۱۴ کو پشاور ارمی پبلک اسکول پر ایک دھشتگردی…
School Shootings: This is an Epidemic, Not a Series of Unique Tragedies
Sam Stein at The Bulwark: OF ALL THE REFLECTIONS offered by lawmakers on the school…