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by Team Zeteo: As tensions continue increase across the Middle East, and with Iran-U.S. relations at a low point, here are 10 things you should know about the Islamic Republic’s
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Damon Linker at Notes From the Middleground: The two-part conversation with Jonah Goldberg that I ran last week was conducted before the Biden-Trump debate on June 27. It was scheduled
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Rising out the world, you and I,a finite flame among the infinite darknessof two nebulous chasms… Born into a disenchanted worldof Cartesian rationalism, our mindsand spirits isolated from the universal,a
Continue readingSaturday Poem: To Make Living Itself the Highest Art
Chris Bing and Joel Schectman at Reuters: At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence
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Shoestring Jane at Mouthy Money: Here are some common lies we tell ourselves about debt. I’m just no good with money Debt is normal I deserve a treat It’s going
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Michael Le Page in New Scientist: Artificial intelligence systems can now create remarkably accurate reconstructions of what someone is looking at based on recordings of their brain activity. These reconstructed images
Continue readingMind-reading AI Recreates What You’re Looking at With Amazing Accuracy
Emma Uber in The Washington Post: While the Fourth of July conjures up images of fireworks and parades, barbecues and bonfires, the United States has another Independence Day tradition: naturalizing
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The man next to me sings God Bless America even thoughhe knows the Statue of Liberty is unsafe to enter. He sings my home, sweet home, and I bless fireworks
Continue readingFriday Poem: At a Party On Ellis Island Watching Fireworks
By Timothy Grieve-Carlson at OUP: At the beginning of another summer that will likely prove to be the hottest in the planet’s recorded history, it is easy to feel like
Continue readingWhat Can Seventeenth-century Sources Teach us About Living With Climate Change?
Irshad Salim, Karachi: One day I asked Professor Kahn why do we keep hearing all the time about freedom of expression, right to dissent, etc. “Wisdom of crowds is a
From Dawn: IT seems that the goings-on in judges’ homes is not the only thing that piques Big Brother’s curiosity. Our security apparatus also listens to what ordinary citizens are
Continue readingOrwellian State: Leaked Phone Calls, ‘Lawful Intercept Management System’
The flame that burns so bright, this too shall passHowever strong the light, this too shall pass You heap the wood upon the open fireAnd set the world alight, this
Continue readingThursday Poem: “This Too Shall Pass” by Rohan Buettel