‘You Either Live Long or You Live Short, and You Can’t Do Much About it.’
Quote of the Day John Alfred Tinniswood, age 111, was recently confirmed as the world’s…
Governing the Ungovernable
Jess Bidgood at The New York Times: When members of Congress return to Washington from…
What’s Inside the President’s Nuclear Football
Annie Jacobsen at Time: Nuclear threats have reemerged on the world stage. Frequently, Vladimir Putin…
Saturday Poem: Egyptian Archers
In Egyptian art, one archer standsfor all archers, their contour drawn from his thigh, his…
‘Our Rule of Law is Under Attack From Our Own Government, But the World Does Not See This’
Mike Herd, Investigations Editor, The Conversation: Here’s a story about an authoritarian leader of a…
Meeting The QAnon Shaman
Frederick Kaufman at Harper’s Magazine: Jacob Angeli-Chansley, the man the media has dubbed the QAnon…
Habsora: Israel Military AI System “a Mass Assassination Factory”
A recent report claims another system called Where’s Daddy? monitors targets and alerts the military…
Is the Universe Really a ‘Dark Forest’ Full of Hostile Aliens in Hiding?
By Tony Milligan at Singularity Hub: We have no good reason to believe that aliens…
Some of the Most Expensive Paintings in the World
Art is one of the most secure assets a person can buy. It rarely depreciates,…
Friday Poem: The Imprisoned Parrot –by Shehnaz Somjee
The Imprisoned Parrot It pecked at the metallic barswhose cruel gleam was tantalizing.It uttered a…
‘Patriot’: Posthumous Memoir By Aleksei Navalny, the Russian Opp. Leader
The NY Times writes: Aleksei Navalny’s memoir, written during the years leading up to his…
Reassembling Pakistan
Khurram Hussain at Dawn: MUCH has been said about “reimagining Pakistan” but it is important…