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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:…

This Week’s Best Cartoons

Election 2024; Incumbency; Media Polls; Debate; Pornstar…

‘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…