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McKinsey research shows that carbon dioxide removal, or CDR, could play a vital role in combating hard-to-abate emissions. These emissions are considered hard to abate because they come from activities
Continue readingDecarbonization is the Most Critical Response to Climate Change–But is it Enough?
by Isaac Grafstein at The Free Press: What, if anything, should we do about TikTok? Is the forced sale of the fastest-growing social media platform in the world a commonsense
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed ofvast ranges of experience, like the humming of unseen harps,we know nothing of, within us.Oh when man has escaped from the barbed-wire
Continue readingMonday Poem: Terra Incognita by D.H. Lawrence
B&W photography goes back to the fundamentals of what photography has always been. Take color out of the equation and focus on lines and form–you’ll get a lot of value
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Benjamin Markovits at the New York Times: This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death. The most famous poet of his age (an odd phrase now) died fighting
Continue readingLord Byron Was Hard to Pin Down. That’s What Made Him Great.
Engr. Habib Khan from Quetta: This story is from a “walknic,” which of course is not an addition to the English dictionary but a combination of two word “walk” and
Directed by Naghmeh Pour & produced by Sara Samsøe Moghaddas at Aeon: Coinciding with the spring equinox, Nowruz marks the Persian new year, a festival of rebirth and renewal that’s
Continue readingA Beginner’s Guide to a Joyful Persian Tradition of Spring Renewal and Rebirth
“A Bald Man With Glasses Knows What He’s Doing” Irshad Salim, Karachi: I was reading a piece this morning on comedian Larry David’s stoicism with baldness, beardness, glassness (wearing glasses),
JIM W. DEAN intro at The Intel Drop: I had been hoping to see Sy Hersh digging into what the back story was on the Iran retaliation attack after the
Continue readingSeymour Hersh: How the Pentagon Engineered a Fake War to Prevent a Real One
by Ahmad Almallah These windows, these panes, at the beginning of lightlooking where they look, eyeing the east and the rustand here they are, protected by shade and shadows:branches and
The former U.S. ambassador and daughter of the music industry’s ‘Black Godfather’ discusses grief, grace, and her radical response to a shocking crime. Bari Weiss at The Free Press: On
Continue readingNicole Avant on Why She Forgave Her Mother’s Murderer
Atomic Habits: The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 15 million copies sold! An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones from James Clear is
Continue readingWhy Habits are the “Compound Interest” of Self-Improvement