As the World Turns: Thursday April 25, 2024
News, Views of Interest That You Might Have Missed… Biden Signs Foreign Aid, TikTok Bills… Report: Global Military Spending Hits a Record High of $2.44 Trillion… The ministry of (dis)information
Sahil Bloom: 7 Questions That Changed My Life
Glance: The greatest discoveries in life come not from finding the right answers, but from asking the right questions. For the last several years, I’ve been adding to a list
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Dubai’s Freak Rain
Don’t blame it on cloud seeding – the storm was far too big to be human-made Richard Washington at The Conversation: Early on Tuesday morning, April 16, the chat network
Is the Gaza war Tearing US University Campuses Apart?
Joel Mathis, at The Week: Campus unrest over the war in Gaza “has reached a fever pitch in the final weeks of classes,” said The New York Times, with confrontations
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Thursday Poem: The New Battery Should Come Tomorrow
Got up this morning thinking about going to see my daughter.Which led to thinking about the remote for the garage door opener which had stopped working when I replaced the battery.
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Ancient Wisdom: Emotional Vaccination
This is How You Make Hard Situations Easier Ryan Holiday at Daily Stoic: Airports are stressful and traveling can be a nightmare. Dealing with a toddler’s tantrum at the grocery
As the World Turns: Wednesday April 24, 2024
News, Views of Interest That You Might Have Missed… New evidence challenges Pentagon’s account of attack as US withdrew from Afghanistan… USA, Russia set for showdown at UN over nukes
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AI: A Bridge Toward Diverse Intelligence
Today’s debates about artificial intelligence (AI) fail to grapple with deeper questions about who we are and what kind of future we want to build. Michael Levin in Noema: They
Yuval Noah Harari: From Gaza to Iran, the Netanyahu Govt Is Endangering Israel’s Survival
Yuval Noah Harari in Haaretz: In the coming days Israel will have to make historic policy decisions, ones that could shape its fate and the fate of the entire region
Antidote to the Crisis of Leadership: Opportunity in Complexity
Leadership is in crisis. Scandals are commonplace, only 20% of employees claim they trust their leaders, two in three think politicians are only motivated by self-interest, three-quarters of firms say
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Climate Change Requires Private Sector Financial Firepower
And these efforts cannot be simply country-based. They must be geared to achieve global goals for net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Michael Olabisi of Michigan State University explains how the
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Wednesday Poem: Identity Card -by Mahmoud Darwish
Write down!I am an ArabAnd my identity card number is fifty thousandI have eight childrenAnd the ninth will come after a summerWill you be angry? Write down!I am an ArabEmployed
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