Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Address (1978)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Commencement Address at Harvard University in 8 June 1978. {Russian audio with English-translation…
Decolonising Psychology
by Rami Gabriel at Aeon Magazine: In recent years, psychology has come under attack as…
Some Climate Experts Say Carbon Removal Start-ups Will Limit Global Warming, But Significant Questions Remain
By Ramin Skibba at Undark: On April 11, a small company called Graphyte began pumping…
Could We Turn Mars Into Another Earth? Here’s What It Would Take to Terraform the Red Planet
By Sven Bilén at Singularity Hub: When I was in middle school, my biology teacher…
Friday Poem: ‘Grasshopper’ – by Irshad Salim
when lilies in pond diesnakes move inwhen snakes swirl outrats move inthe house withrodents micesants…
“I Fixed the New York Times’ Pro-Israel Headlines on Gaza”
Assal Rad at Zeteo: When a poll in March showed that only about half of…
How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism
Robert F. Barsky at the MIT Press Reader: Unlike the many members of the left…
Lessons From Singapore – Nothing To Lose
by Eric Feigenbaum at 3 Quarks Daily: For a strange five minutes in 1994, Americans…
Thursday Poem: ‘Metropolis With Ghazal’ by Siddharth Dasgupta
Come walk with me through the bones of this bustling city.Time hedges its bets in…
What Game Theory Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything
“Cooperation” is the most unexpected phenomena in nature, the mechanics of the ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ game…
A Little-understood Fact: There’s Not That Much Wealth in the World
Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Most economic debates are about income, not wealth. When we talk about…
A London Jeweler Turns to Home Goods Made With Precious Metals
by Jo Rodgers at New York Times: Walk down a side street in London’s diamond…