Imagineering: Teamwork. Backhoe Kid.

“Interest in the work matters”. “No problem can be solved from the same level of…

Sunday Poem: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

Love the quick profit, the annual raise,vacation with pay. Want moreof everything ready-made. Be afraidto…

Astronomers Discover 27,500 New Asteroids Lurking in Archival Images

By Jason Dorrier at Singularity Hub: In tandem with Google Cloud, the Asteroid Institute recently…

How One Man Brought Down the Leading Members of the British Establishment

John Arlidge at the Air Mail: Britain does a good line in scandal. The Profumo…

India’s Despotic Election

The playing field is tilted decisively in favor of the ruling party. The chances of…

Sicily Sold Homes for One Euro. This Is What Happened Next.

Lisa Abend at Afar: Since the 19th century, large numbers of villagers in the poorer…

Harry Truman’s Train Ride

Our Govt. is made up of the people. You are the Govt. I am only…

Saturday Poem: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

English translation of ‘Kal Aaj Aur Kal’ -Urdu poem by Aitzaz Ahsan: In the prime…

AI’s Next Big Step: Detecting Human Emotion and Expression

Alex Kantrowitz at The Big Technology: The AI field has made remarkable progress with incomplete…

Story in Pics: A Bicycle Race, a Destroyed Building, and More

From Anahi Valenzuela at The Week Digital: Cyclists take part in the Giro d’Italia cycle…

Jhumpa Lahiri: The Art of Fiction

Francesco Pacifico in Paris Review: My first conversations with Jhumpa Lahiri took place in Rome this…

Future Pandemics Will Have the Same Human Causes as Ancient Outbreaks

Lessons from anthropology can help prevent them. Ron Barrett in The Conversation: The last pandemic…