John Jacob’s Amazing 19th Century Clock
Habib Khan, Quetta: The news that a clock manufactured by John Jacob –more than 150…
What Makes a Friendship Last Forever?
Jamie Ducharme in Time Magazine: There are many flavors of friendship. Most U.S. adults say they have…
Sunday Poem: The Moon Rose Over the Bay. I Had a Lot of Feelings.
I am taken with the hot animalof my skin, grateful to swing my limbs and…
The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century
by Adele A. Wilby at 3 Quarks Daily: Many decades ago, I was fortunate to…
Telegram Creator Pavel Durov Used his Talents to Create a Russian Facebook, Organize College Beauty Contests, and Help Classmates Cheat on Exams
by Andrew Ryvkin at Air Mail: Pavel Durov, the Russian enfant terrible who created Telegram,…
A “42 Billion Dollar Begging Industry!”
by Syed Muzammil on YouTube: The huge begging network in Pakistan –claimed to be worth…
Some Brains Develop Alzheimer’s—Others Don’t. A New Cell Map Could Explain Why.
by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Alzheimer’s disease slowly takes over the mind. Long before…
James Carville On Trump, Harris, Clinton
Andrew Sullivan at The Weekly Dish: Carville needs no introduction, but he’s a legendary consultant,…
How Folktales Unsettle Us Into Thinking Anew
by Abigail Tulenko in Aeon Magazine: The Hungarian folktale Pretty Maid Ibronka terrified and tantalised…
The Death of our Era by D.H. Lawrence
Our era is dyingyet who has killed it?Have we, who are it? In the middle…
The Challenge of Interviewing Kamala Harris
Jess Bidgood in the NY Times Newsletter: Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate,…