Saturday Poem: If –by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming…
Clean Energy May be Growing, But It’s Not Replacing Dirty Energy
By Matthew L. Wald at The Breakthrough Journal: Lots of people have high hopes for…
Revisiting the ‘Research Parasite’ Debate in the Age of AI
C. Brandon Ogbunu at The Undark revisits a debate about so-called “research parasites” — scientists…
Racism, Jazz, and James Baldwin’s “Sonny Blues”
by Tom Jenks at OUP Blog: Reading is good; rereading is better. I can’t say…
Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam
Arvind Dilawar in the Los Angeles Review of Books: AFTER THE END of the United…
Downtowns Don’t Matter Anymore. Exurbanism is the New Urbanism.
Joel Kotkin at The New Atlantis: Simply put, downtowns matter less and less. In Austin…
Friday Poem: The Book of the Dead Man (Peacetime)
Live as if you were already dead.—Zen admonition 1. About the Dead Man in Peacetime,…
Self-watering, Self-fertilizing Soil is Now a Step Closer to Reality
By Emma Bryce at Anthropocene: Scientists have developed little beads called hydrogels that can capture…
The Psychology of Olympians and How They Master Their Minds to Perform
by Mike McGreary at Singularity Hub: Participating in the Olympic Games is a rare achievement,…
Sudan and the Silence of the Activists
Nesrine Malik in The Ideas Letter: Some 20 years ago, the Darfur region of Sudan…
Thursday Poem: Temples of Smoke
Fire shimmied and reached upFrom the iron furnace and grabbedSawdust from the pitchforkBefore I could…
Has Netanyahu Finally Lost America?
Joshua Keating in Vox: From a purely visual standpoint, Netanyahu may have gotten what he wanted…