A Journey Into Rebel-Held Myanmar
By Charles Petrie at Neom Magazine: I was making the trek into Myanmar to get…
Monday Poem: Paragon
To eat sweet corn straight offthe cob, just shucked—no one ever told me I could…
The Endless Wait: Biharis’ History of Exile
by Harmain Ahmer in Dawn: Following the ‘Fall of Dhaka’, the non-Bengalis in Bangladesh were…
When Humanity Stopped Looking Backward, it Started Moving Forward
James Pethokoukis at Faster, Please: Part of my (quite popular!) recent essay “Why no Industrial…
The Mathematician Who Helps Olympic Swimmers Go Faster
Davide Castelvecchi in Nature: The medals keep coming for US swimmers at the 2024 Olympic Games in…
What the Epic of Gilgamesh Reveals About Sumerian Society
Paul Cooper at Literary Hub: One Sumerian epic poem called Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta gives…
The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady
by Heath Hardage Lee at Air Mail: Mrs. Nixon’s considerable, if quiet, contributions as First…
Sunday Poem: Twice Dying
Someone once said that we die twice–First, when we take our very last breath.The flame…
A Spectacular, Close-up Look at the Starfish With a ‘Hands-on’ Approach to Parenting
From Aeon Magazine: Most starfish take a rather laissez-faire approach to parenting, releasing millions of…
What Haniyeh’s Assassination Means for a Gaza Ceasefire
By Mairav Zonszein at Time Magazine: On Wednesday morning, as news broke that Hamas political…
This Professor Has a Path Toward Human-Level AI. It Isn’t LLMs.
by Alex Kantrowitz at Big Technology: In Deepak Pathak’s telling, nobody is building human-level artificial…