Kabab
A WhatsApp Share: The Ottoman Empire’s soldiers were given meat loaves and spices by their…
The Best of Photojournalism This Week
A flooded town, brawl in parliament, a boat, cold lava cascades, a prisoner at a…
Saturday Poem: The Double Image Redux
Turn the photo of your mother in its frameso she can’t tsk her tongue against her teeth:the…
World War War III May Already Have Started—in the Shadows
by J.D. Tuccille at Reason: Of course, in war of any sort, the implication is…
To Fight Inequality, America Needs to Rethink Its Economic Model
By Daniel Chandler at Time: The publication of Rawls’s magnum opus A Theory of Justice…
The Place of Revenge in Jewish Culture
Shachar Pinsker at Aeon: Since 7 October 2023, nekama (‘vengeance’ or ‘revenge’ in Hebrew) has…
Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient
Steve Nadis in Quanta: Imagine you had a friend who gave different answers to the…
Friday Poem: Insult to Injury
I find an old air gunand a can of ammodown in the basementin a cardboard…
Human ‘Bias’ and AI ‘Noise’
Human Differences in Judgment Lead to Problems for AI by Mayank Kejriwal at Singularity Hub:…
‘Worse Than Iraq’
by Team Zeteo: The protests against Biden aren’t just happening outside the White House. They’ve…
How Digital Technologies in Indonesia are Bringing Inclusivity to 17,500 Islands
Eric Kutcher, a senior partner at McKinsey, talks to the leaders of two of Indonesia’s…