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Simon Schuster in Time: In Russian custom, the soul of the dead is believed to remain on earth for forty days, finishing its business among the living before it moves on
Continue reading‘Putin Is My Enemy.’ The Revolution of Yulia Navalnaya
by Chinese writer Chua Qinling published in March 2023: The biggest threat to the United States of America is not China, but peace. World peace will put an end to
Continue readingWhoever Wants World Peace Should Shun War Economy, and War Trade
Mark Manson, the #1 NY Times Bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k and Everything Is F**ked: A Book About Hope–he writes life advice that is
Johannes Kepler observed the last supernova in the Milky Way in 1604, so in a statistical sense, the next one is overdue. Chris Impey at Singlarity Hub: Stars like the
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?Why are you
Continue readingThursday Poem: ‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou
Annie Jacobsen in New Scientist: As an investigative journalist, I write about war, weapons, national security and government secrets. I’ve previously written six books about US military and intelligence programs
Continue readingAnnie Jacobsen: ‘What if We Had a Nuclear War?’
A relatively small deal — by Microsoft’s standards, anyway — is leading to big geopolitical ripples this morning. The tech giant is investing $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati artificial
Anil Ananthaswamy in Quanta: In January 2022, researchers at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, reported that these systems, when accidentally allowed to munch on data for much longer than usual, developed unique
Nick Hunt in Noema: Returning home after being away for any length of time is strange. The Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta, who journeyed 70,000 miles across much of the 14th-century Islamic
Did Iran destroy Israel’s largest Air Base? Big confession by Israel? Some talking points on the global and regional impact of the Israel-Iran conflict, and its emerging scenario: Related article:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr at The New Yorker (from 1995): The two weeks spanning the O. J. Simpson verdict and Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March on Washington were a good time
Liz Wolfe at Reason: Republicans confirmed yesterday that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) plans to attempt to pass four separate bills to provide funding to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan and to address