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Habib Khan, Quetta: I had planned and failed to visit India three times, but finally I succeeded in 2009 –to attend a EHS Conference in Goa while working for Merck.
Continue readingMemoir: A Boorha (Old Man) On the Mumbai Commuter Trains
Socrates apparently wasn’t doing anything dangerous. He simply asked questions, spoke to anyone: with nobles, with common citizens, with young people. … Continue readingWhy Was Socrates Killed?
Ana Corcuella: What do you think, that with the Spanish conquest, civilization was brought to America? Here I present to you a different story. … Continue readingHistory Revisited: Spanish Conquest of America
Over epochs of time,By apparent design,Man cycles thru being, barbarous beasts.To being better behaved at social feasts. For short times, if it lasts at all,Peace and quiet reigns tolerantly tall.Abundance
Continue readingOccupied – Stolen Lands: A Bit About Historical Ado (Poem)
Intellectual humility has recently been hailed as the key to thinking well. The story of Barbara McClintock proves otherwise. … Continue readingWhy Intellectual Humility Isn’t Always a Virtue
Shadi Hamid and Damir Marusic at Wisdom of the Crowds: “War, or something resembling war, is breaking out in the Middle East,” says Shadi Hamid. A year after the October
Paul Bloom on TED: We all experience it: that desire to do something wrong just for the sake of it. Whether it’s walking on manicured grass or sticking your finger
Continue readingThe Surprising Psychology Behind Your Urge to Break the Rules
Capital in the Twenty-First Century became a surprise bestseller, and inequality became a signature concern of the new century. … Continue readingThe Surprising Origins and Politics of Equality
Quico Toro: When scientists bring up unconventional new ways of managing that risk, we’re told we mustn’t even talk about them. … Continue readingResearchers are Trying to Find Out: Could We Cool the Planet Using Sea Salt?
by Thomas Dorsett: Nothing matters; that’s why I still work. Poems none read, translations none want; I’m prodigious as Nature is with her seeds. … Continue readingPoem: The Pleasures of Age
Rutland was a British naval hero in the First World War, worked for the Japanese Navy in the years between the wars… … Continue readingThe Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
When Nietzsche used the tools of philology to explore the nature of morality, he became a ‘philosopher of the future’. … Continue readingThe Value of Our Values