Are Our Worldviews Structured by Language?
by James McElvenny at Aeon Magazine: Anyone who has learned a second language will have made an exhilarating (and yet somehow unsettling) discovery: there is never a one-to-one correspondence in
Imran Khan: The Man Who Won’t Blink, But Should He?
by Ayaz Amir (shared by Khalid Sharif): In the fog of Pakistan’s political battlefield, where uncertainty reigns supreme and the stakes are ever rising, one man remains at the center
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Gray Matters: A Neurosurgeon’s Inside Look at the Brain
by Erica Good at the Undark: Many years ago, I read a book about neurosurgery by a journalist who had undergone an operation for a brain hemorrhage. One anecdote is
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Informers, Secrets, Truths, and Dignity
by Mark Drumbl and Barbora Holá at OUP Blog: Over 100,000 individuals acted as secret informers reporting to state security police in Czechoslovakia during the Communist years. The contents of
Whispers of the Dragon
by Eleni Petrakou at 3 Quarks Daily: During this Chinese New Year celebrations, this columnist was very surprised to realize that what dragons were is not really common knowledge. Are
Friday Poem: I Crane My Neck
My view is of nothingother than the black dot of Icarushung beneath the canopy of awax wing in a field of grey,a boy suspended by invisiblefilaments thinner than humanhairs strung
Thursday Poem: The Way of Art
It seems to me that,paralleling the paths of action, devotion, etc.,there is a path called artand that the sages of the East would recognizeFaulkner, Edward Hopper, Beethoven, William Carlos Williamsand
The Issue of Youth Unemployment and Underemployment is By No Means Exclusive to Bangladesh
Anna Barford at The Conversation: Jobs, of which 30% were reserved for independence war veterans and their relatives, are highly sought after. The rate of youth unemployment in Bangladesh is
Books That Shook the Business World: Exponential by Azeem Azhar
Sreevas Sahasranamam at The Conversation: I originally got introduced to Azeem Azhar, the English journalist, startup founder and investor, through his podcast and newsletter, Exponential View. My research and teaching
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I Asked Grok to Tell Us Why We Shouldn’t Worship Technology. Here’s Its Surprising Answer.
James Poulos at The Blaze: Grok, Elon Musk’s “frontier language model” accessible from right inside X, is shaking up the internet with its censorship-free automated image generation. Fun — and
Can We Mitigate Climate Change and Protect Biodiversity Without Eliminating Meat Consumption?
By Ted Nordhaus at The Breakthrough Journal: As much as 60% of global agricultural emissions comes from livestock production, with a significant majority of that coming from beef and dairy
Wednesday Poem: What We Leave Behind
My father drank salt water mixed with airAnd sacrificed his legs and calloused hands at the altar of the sea,So that it may split in half to give me the