A Talking Point of the LUMS Founder Syed Babar Ali
An extract of interest from his talking points with Jugnu Mohsin at her program ‘Intikhab’ on Samaa TV recently: Watch the whole interview at YouTube:https://youtu.be/oKPL3JZnk0o?si=bJ8gUG1oguHTr-k0
The Shifting Nature of AI Risk
by Malcolm Murray at 3 Quarks Daily: As AI evolves, so do the risks it poses on society. The risks of AI today are already unrecognizable from those of a
Tuesday Poem: Solitude is Not Absence of Love
by Paulo Coelho Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side. Because Love needs to rest as well, so that it can journey through the heavens and reveal
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“Better Angels of Our Nature”: For Abraham Lincoln it Was More than Words
Donald Nieman at The Conversation: Following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, community leaders, clergy and politicians including President Joe Biden have called on Americans to tone down white-hot political
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How the Continual Movement of Wildlife Regulates the Natural World
James Bradley at Literary Hub: Each night, as the line that separates day from night sweeps across the face of the ocean, a vast wave of life rises from the
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Monday Poem: White Corn Boy
—Before the Coming of the White man I am the White Corn BoyI walk in sight of my home.I walk in plain sight of my home.I walk on the straight
Why Do Young People Talk Almost Exclusively in Adverbs?
Christopher Gage at Oxford Sour: Three-quarters of the creative industry is under 45. Perhaps this age gap (not the sexually consensual and fun kind) explains why so much of what
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Podcast: Documenting the Rise of Nazism
Sonny Bunch at The Bulwark: I’m joined this week by Thomas Doherty, Brandeis professor and author of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, and Maria Elena de las Carreras, assistant professor at
Dr Moeed Yusuf: Why Pakistan’s Raw Talent Often Struggles in Structured Settings
Dr. Moeed Yusuf shares his views on Pakistan’s ‘ethos of mediocrity’: Sourced from digital pakistan @ instagram
The Secrets of the Heath
Helen Macdonald in The New Statesman: Most of the lowland heaths I knew in my childhood were military-owned. Useless for agriculture, heathland was cheap, so in the 19th century the
Dancing Girl of Moenjodaro
Habib Khan, Quetta: When I was in the first year of Engineering we used to live in a secluded hostel where our spare time was mostly spent chatting in each
Sunday Poem: Life Sentence
I am an angry manno longer youngmy dreams have been outin all the weather I used tomake up highway exits as I went alongand rattle my feverat strangers I am