Why Democracy Lives and Dies by Math

From the NY Times: A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs.

How Digital Life Threatens Our Capacity For Awe

In this tech-vexed age, our life on screens prevents us from experiencing the mysteries and transformative wonder of life.

How Circadian Rhythms Make Life on Earth Tick

From honeybees and penguins to time-stressed humans, the humming of inner clocks is essential to survival.

Poem: Hiding Places | by Jack Micheline

There is no escape from the angst outside but the world within; find it. — Roshi Bob

Donald Trump’s Revenge

“The former President will return to the White House older, less inhibited, and far more dangerous than ever before.”

The Dawn of the Trump Era

To understand how Trump could become the dominant politician of this era, it’s time for all of us to take a long, hard look in the mirror.

Poem: Torture | by Wisława Szymborska

Nothing has changed. The body is susceptible to pain, it must eat and breathe air and sleep, it has thin skin and blood right underneath.

Can We Keep Producing More Food in a Warmer World?

Can we reinvent agriculture for a low-carbon world without people going hungry? Change will be dirty at first but could get cleaner.

The Hidden Forces That Guide Us

Everything in the Universe, from wandering turtles to falling rocks, is surrounded by ‘fields’ that guide and direct movement.

Poem: Thanatopsis | by William Cullen Bryant

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours…

Ubuntu: ‘I am I When We Are’

Couple of years ago, the then Vice Chancellor of Balochistan Univ. of Info Tech. Engg. & Management Science (BUITEMS) Dr. Farooq Bazai…

Arundhati Roy on Gaza Genocide

Roy said she “refused to play the condemnation game” by creating “moral equivalence” between Israel and Hamas…