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Monday Poem: We Don’t Call it a Riot

DPstaff June 10, 2024June 9, 2024

That summer was an oven on self-clean—beyond hot. The cops raided clubs for weeks.Huddled, frightened men and men and women and women and human and human heldat the end of

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Where am I?

DPstaff June 9, 2024June 9, 2024

From the MIT Press Reader: When Daniel Dennett’s essay collection “Brainstorms” was published in 1978, the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science was just emerging. Dennett was a young scholar who

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Records of Pompeii’s Survivors Have Been Found – and Archaeologists are Starting to Understand How They Rebuilt Their Lives

DPstaff June 9, 2024June 9, 2024

by Steven L. Tuck at The Conversation: On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in

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Changing Your Diet and Lifestyle May Slow Down Alzheimer’s

DPstaff June 9, 2024June 9, 2024

Alice Park in Time: Lately, the biggest news in Alzheimer’s has been around a new drug treatment that can slow cognitive decline by nearly 30% among people in the early stages of

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Picture a Perfect Society. What Does it Look Like?

DPstaff June 9, 2024June 9, 2024

What principles do we need to design a fair society? Here is political philosopher John Rawls’ classic thought experiment on redesigning society–the experiment considers a group of strangers who are

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Rule of Law?

DPstaff June 9, 2024June 9, 2024

Joann Wypijewski in Sidecar: On 30 May, around cocktail time, a jury in New York criminal court found former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump guilty on all thirty-four counts

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The Traveler By: Friedrich Nietzsche

DPstaff June 9, 2024June 9, 2024

A traveler who had seen many countries, peoples and several of the earth’s continents was asked what attribute he had found in men everywhere. He said: “They have a propensity

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Nostalgic Smiles

DPstaff June 9, 2024June 9, 2024

Habib Khan, Quetta: When I moved to Karachi in February 1974 –to join NED Engineering College, I spent the initial weeks with my cousin Abdullah Khan, who was pursuing his

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Sunday Poems: Light Can You Die; Listen…

DPstaff June 9, 2024June 9, 2024

From ‘Sometime Somewhere’ circa 1977: –by Irshad Salim

‘Human Beings are Pure Evil’: Dog Thrown From Balcony in Karachi Sparks Outrage

DPstaff June 8, 2024June 8, 2024

by Images Staff: Stray animals are rounded up and killed en masse on a routine basis in Karachi to curb their population. Municipal laws allow authorities to either poison or

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Alone Again, Unnaturally

DPstaff June 8, 2024June 8, 2024

Joseph Epstein in Commentary: More than two centuries earlier, Montaigne wrote at essay-length on the subject of solitude. “Now the aim of all solitude, I take it, is the same: to

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The Hidden Story Behind India’s Remarkable Election Results: Lethal Heat

DPstaff June 8, 2024June 8, 2024

Amitava Kumar at The Guardian: The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), led by India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has won more seats than the opposition alliance, and yet its victory tastes of

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