Humans 150,000 years ago, wouldn’t figure on a list of the five most interesting species on Earth’.. Jared Diamond.. Jared … More
Tag: Culture
The Leafless Garden- Mehdi Akhavan Sales (Poem)
The Leafless Garden The cloud with its cold and damp skinHas embraced the heaven tightly; The leafless orchardIs alone day … More
A survival guide for living in simulation – Dr Harry Whitnall
What of the meaning of life? If the universe is simply a simulation, then the meaning of your entire existence … More
The Other America – Rev Dr Martin Luther King
And so I can still sing “We Shall Overcome.” We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is … More
The Dark Psychology of Social Networks – The Atlantic
For example, in “Federalist No. 10,” James Madison wrote about his fear of the power of “faction,” by which he … More
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
I came to conceive of a book that would dismantle the tale of our demise by way of a new … More
Good Eats – Vaclav Smil
All affluent countries have been producing substantially more food than could be possibly eaten, even by gluttonous populations. Food waste … More
Flowers Full of Colors – (Poet: Faiz Ahmed Faiz)
Let there be colors in the flowers, and the breeze of new spring would come. Come, so that the daily … More
10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings
I remember my first awareness of mortality as a child in Bulgaria. I was nine and my father was relaying … More