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Qurratulain Hyder (Aini Apa), 1927-2007 27 Aug 2013 | 04:40 pm
Note: (This week is the sixth death anniversary of the great Urdu writer and my dear friend Qurratulain Hyder.)
Cancer’s Ordered Disorder 27 Aug 2013 | 04:12 pm
From The New York Times: Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee’s authoritative 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning “biography” of cancer, “The Emperor of All Maladies,” ran almost 600 pages. In comparison, George Johnson...
Tuesday Poem 27 Aug 2013 | 03:16 pm
Thin How anything is known is so thin— a skin of ice over a pond only birds might confidently walk upon. A bird's worth of weight or one bird-weight of Wordswo...
When in Doubt, Just Question the Motives of Evolutionary Psychology Critics 27 Aug 2013 | 12:35 pm
PZ Myers responds to Jerry Coyne on evolutionary psychology, in Pharyngula: I detest evolutionary psychology, not because I dislike the answers it gives, but on purely methodological and empirical gr...
Debating Polyamory 27 Aug 2013 | 12:17 pm
First, Laurie Penny in the Guardian: [n]on-monogamy is stereotyped as a bad deal for women and girls, all of whom actually just want a white wedding, because we women are all the same, simple creatur...
Thomas Pogge: A Global Plan to End Poverty 27 Aug 2013 | 11:22 am
Philosopher Thomas Pogge: A Global Plan to End Poverty from The RSA on FORA.tv
The Inca Empire's Strange Economy 27 Aug 2013 | 09:55 am
Analee Newitz in io9: One of the outstanding questions for scientists and historians who study the Incas is why this wealthy, sophisticated culture developed scientifically and culturally without eve...
Ah-Choo! A Four Part Discourse on the Artlessness of Sneezing 26 Aug 2013 | 09:30 am
by Akim Reinhardt I. A Sneeze for All Seasons II. God Bless You III. The Poetry of Sneezing IV. Sneeze vs. Cough Sternuisso ergo sum. I sneeze, therefore I am. It defines me. It is at the core of...
Walking Past the White House: Contractual Arrangements 26 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
by Maniza Naqvi The bullet points in the news are that Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking military documents and the White House hasn't stopped its military aid of U...
perceptions 26 Aug 2013 | 09:20 am
Sughra Raza. Untitled. 1976. Etching with color pencil embellishment.
