Why Social Scientists Must Embrace Chaos Theory

Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results. Instead they must embrace chaos theory.

Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet

The problem is that investment is driven by profit, not price, and operating solar and wind farms remains a marginal business…

Knights Templar: The Powerful Military Order During the Crusades

Their skill as warriors, their financial acumen, and the legends of their hidden riches continue to captivate imaginations worldwide.

Four Connections Between Emily Dickinson and Franz Kafka

The fourth connection might be responsible for half of the world’s creativity…

Is There Really a Plot to Use Migrants to Turn America Blue?

A top GOP talking point of this election is that Democrats are rigging the vote through illegal immigration. Is there any truth to it?

Computers Don’t Actually Do Anything. They Don’t Write, or Play; They Don’t Even Compute.

For all the promise and dangers of AI, computers plainly can’t think. To think is to resist – something no machine does.

26th Amendment: Drafted Elsewhere, Deliberated by a Select Few, Passed in Supreme Haste

Umair Javed in Dawn: (T)his amendment carries the element of being person-specific, at least in the current moment.

Oh, Sindh: A Poem By Murad Ali Shah Bukerai (Video)

“From the peaks of the hills to the shores of the sea, In the heart of every Sindhi, it’s love we see,” (Watch video song also).

Tracy Calder on Why We Need to Keep Dreaming

‘The Germans have a phrase for the sense of panic many of us feel when a goal is within our reach: Torschlusspanik’.

Poem: My Motherland is That Place

Javed Rahman: I will go back to that land again. The place where I was born. Away from this foreign strand. To the land whose loyalty I have sworn.

‘Universe 25’: The Rat Colony Experiment

This ‘Universe 25’ idea comes from American scientist John Calhoun. He creates an ‘ideal world’ where rats will live and breed.

‘Yin,’ ‘Yang’ and the ‘Dao’: “Xi Jinping Thought”

Xi has reversed the pragmatic “learn from practice” approach of Deng Xiaoping’s “reform and opening up”.