80 Bicycles and the Poor Clerk
by Habib Khan, Quetta: Within the first couple of years of my joining the Cadbury’s at Hub, the factory manager retired, and the company decided not to replace him. Instead,
Sunday Poem: Hundred Flowers Blossom
I went to the woodsbirds talked with musictheir marriagesand a tree laceratedits trunk, offered me seatas I stood in a labyrinth. The wind laughed the leavesoff the treetill saliva poured
Are We Living in ‘Late Soviet America’?
From The Free Press: A few weeks ago, fresh from being knighted by King Charles, historian Sir Niall Ferguson officially joined The Free Press as a columnist. His first piece
Tackling the Riddle of Free Will
Emily Cataneo in Undark: IT’S 1922. You’re a scientist presented with a hundred youths who, you’re told, will grow up to lead conventional adult lives — with one exception. In 40 years,
Frida Kahlo’s Painting ‘The Wounded Table’ Vanished in 1955. The Hunt For it Continues.
by Paulina Olszanka at Air Mail: During her divorce from the artist Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo began work on a masterpiece that gave voice to her anger at the infidelities
Thoughts On The Advice Pandemic
by Tom Cox at The Villager: In my experience, it is the people who seem most adamant that they know the correct way to live, and are most keen to
Saturday Poem: ‘Why I Write’ by Akshay
These words are for me,For I’m the one who’s hurting,I’m just healing myself. I often wonder why we can’t understand other’s poems sometimes, but deep down it is the one
Explosion in AI-driven Data Centres is Putting Pressure on the Grid
Eric Smalley at The Conversation: Asking ChatGPT a question is quite a bit different from searching on Google. This is for a number of reasons. But one that can be
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The Magical Thinking That Sustains Our Humanness
by Anna Badkhen at Aeon Magazine: Amadou is always tapping into a global knowledge of what keeps us alive, a people’s pharmacopoeia honed over millennia. When we first met, in
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Learning to Like the “Loneliest Justice”
Jonathan H. Adler at Reason: Since the Supreme Court term ended, there have been numerous articles on Justice Barrett, highlighting her independence and thoughtfulness, noting she is simultaneously quite conservative
Friday Poem: ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ by Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing
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