Tuesday Poem: Too Many Names
By Pablo Neruda: Mondays are meshed with Tuesdaysand the whole week with the whole year.Time cannot be cutwith your exhausted scissors,and all the names of the dayare washed out by
12 Republican Senators Letter to ICC Prosecutor Over Possible Netanyahu Arrest Warrants
by Team Zeteo and Mehdi Hasan: A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue
Is International Law Falling Apart?
Chas Newkey-Burden at The Week: The ICC – not to be confused with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which hears cases brought against nation states – is the “world’s
Poetic Expression: Apples n Oranges
Majority left, West Pakistan Pakistan.Cabal saved, lands freed, businesses nationalizedPolitics monetized, economy amortized. Dreamers became Muhajirs, Safdar weeps at Jinnah’s tombSalim got to wait and weep at mother Rabia’s grave.
Indian Court Painting and an Eclipse
Morgan Meis at Slant Books: I happened to be in New York City a few weeks ago. It was during the weekend of the eclipse. It was the day of
Why Science Needs Metaphor
Tasneem Zehra Husain in New Humanist: If science has a native tongue, it is mathematics. Equations capture, precisely, the relationships among the elements of a system; they allow us to pose
How a NASA Probe Solved a Scorching Solar Mystery
Thomas Zurbuchen in Quanta: Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe. We see its light every day. For centuries, scientists have tracked the dark spots dappling its
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Monday Poem: Restricted Fragile Materials
It should be easy, I tell my son,to dispose of the possessions keptin these rooms. I’ve left some things on a shelf for him, see?These coupons might still be valid,the
What is More Important for a Democracy: Elections or Rights?
Samuel Moyn, a law professor at Yale University, prefers voters to judges Damir Marusic and Osita Nwanevu at Wisdom of Crowds: Last December, the highest court in the State of
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The New York Case Against Trump Relies on a ‘Twisty’ Legal Theory That Reeks of Desperation
Jacob Sullum at Reason: Jurors in Donald Trump’s trial at the New York County Criminal Courthouse in Manhattan have heard a lot about paying people to keep their mouths shut. The
How ‘Feelings About Thinking’ Help Us Navigate Our World
A key idea here is that our brains are constantly riding the ups and downs of the uncertainty that surrounds us. Part of this uncertainty has to do with our
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Mother Trees and Socialist Forests: Is the ‘Wood-Wide Web’ a Fantasy?
Daniel Immerwahr in The Guardian: The German forester Peter Wohlleben’s surprise bestseller, The Hidden Life of Trees (published in English in 2016), has inaugurated a new tree discourse, which sees
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