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Bradley and Casey Luskin in Evolution News: In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England (pictured above) has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life.
Pranay Sanklecha at Aeon: ‘Why did you decide to study philosophy?’ asked the Harvard professor, sitting in the park in his cream linen suit. ‘Because I want to find out
by Mahar Murrawat Hussain in Dawn: “You are men and women of violence,” proclaims Dave Grossman, a retired military officer, to eager police trainees in the award-winning documentary Do Not
by Quillette at YouTube: A narrated version of Frank Celia’s essay, published in Quillette on 17 June 2024
by Bari Weiss at The Free Press: On a recent Tuesday morning I found myself two kilometers from Gaza. Every few minutes we could hear the boom of a 155
Continue readingBari Weiss: The Holiday from History Is Over
The world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don’t mind happinessnot always beingso very much funif you don’t mind a touch of hellnow and thenjust when everything is
Continue readingThursday Poem: The World is a Beautiful Place
Irshad Salim, Karachi: Couple of months ago a former Vice Admiral shared with me about Goodman Lantern. I honestly didn’t know about it. What I knew though from my college
Åsmund Folkestad at Extra Medium Please: Over several years now, a single question has refused to leave me: what is beauty? Triggering it was a series of aesthetic experiences so
From Aeon: Between camera filters and clickbait, the digital world is rife with misleading information about how, exactly, dogs see the world. In this short from the YouTube series Howtown,
Continue readingDog Vision is a Trendy Topic, But What Can We really Know About How They See?
by Jack Marley, Environment commissioning editor at The Conversation: Fossil fuels have kept Earth 1.5°C hotter than its pre-industrial average temperature for more than a year now. And yet, where I
Shared by Hasham Siddiqui, ISB: The writings of the Iranian thinker, Dr. Ali Shariati, who was assassinated in Britain in 1977. Consider some of his wonderful descriptions of the reality
Continue readingQuotable Quotes of Iranian Thinker Ali Shariati
by Abbas Raza at 3 Quarks Daily: The following writers each picked 10 books for the New York Times: Stephen King, Min Jin Lee, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Bonnie Garmus, Nana