For Sustainable Food Production on Land, We Might Soon be Looking to the Sea
by Emma Bryce at Anthropocene: Researchers have found that a unique species of marine bacteria…
Pakistan: Warping its Democracy
by Rashid Husain Syed at Globe and Mail: Pakistan, the nuclear-armed country that is the…
Was Alice Munro an Art Monster? Or Just a Monster?
Meghan Daum in Substack: Alice Munro, considered one of the greatest short-story writers of modern times,…
Brothers in Arms or Just Good Friends?
by Michael Ignatieff at Literary Review: Nearly three quarters of the world’s population, according to…
Unmasking the Fear of AI’s Energy Demand
Vijaya Ramachandran, Juzel Lloyd, and Seaver Wang at the Breakthrough Journal: Amongst the many energy-hungry…
Wednesday Poem: It’s the Little Things
It’s the Little Thingsthe sparrow’s tender headthe dead possum on the roadthe pungent smell of…
Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
By Arik Kershenbaum at Literary Review: If a cow said, ‘Don’t eat me’, we wouldn’t….
The Ecology of Collective Behavior
Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: This is the third of a trio of reviews…
Qalandar’s Recipes: If it Looks Good It Tastes Good
Shared by Dr. Ghulam Mustafa (aka Qalandar), California: Mid summer burst … of tomatoes, peppers,…
Economics for the Age of TikTok
Rachel Dec in LA Review of Books: IN 2022, AS THE labor market thrived, a…
A Gentleman in Moscow Has a Little Bit of Everything
Bill Gates in Gates Notes: Melinda and I sometimes read the same book at the same…