Katie Hunt, CNN On the Galapagos Islands, a ground finch that usually munched on small, soft seeds was forced, during a drought, to eat harder, larger ones. Within the space of a few generations, the bird evolved a larger but shorter beak better suited to cracking large seeds. The Galapagos medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis).… Read More The man who has transformed our understanding of evolution
Denise A. Herd As the video goes public of Black police officers in Memphis beating Tyre Nichols to death, it is a stark reminder of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. That set up the largest protests in U.S. history and a national reckoning with racism. But beyond any protests, every police killing – indeed,… Read More Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and communities across US
Gandhiji has been killed by his own people for whose redemption he lived. This second crucifixion in the history of the world has been enacted on a Friday – the same day Jesus was done to death one thousand nine hundred and fifteen years ago Father forgive us These lines in white on a black… Read More The Lady Vanishes
RAMA LAKSHMI In a country where two-thirds of the population is below 35, it took a 57-year-old actor’s movie – Pathaan — to bring the ka-ching back to a battered Bollywood. That’s the gravity-defying, logic-defying stardom that Shah Rukh Khan represents. Not too long ago, the know-it-alls were writing hasty obituaries of Bollywood and about… Read More Pathaan is Shah Rukh Khan’s love letter to his fans. And RSVP for boycott gang
There is always music, that deathless hope First posted January 22, 2013 When Barbara sings “Dis” to an absent lover, she is not just asking when he’ll return. She is showing she can get by without him. Alone is not that bad. There are other consolations. There is always music, that deathless hope. The post-war… Read More ‘But children are the same, In Paris or in Goettingen’: the song that made history. Will someone sing for us?
First posted January 29, 2015 Ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca // samanyam etat pasubhir naranamdharmo hi tesam adhiko viseso // dharmena hinah pasubhih samanah (Hunger, sleep, fear and sex are common to men and animals / What distinguishes men from animals is the knowledge of right and wrong) (Bhagwadgita; Tr S. Radhakrishnan, 1948, 1971, p 79) For the Hindi version… Read More The Abolition of truth
Muhammad Bezinjo Pakistan’s port city of Gwadar, the hub of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), is in a siege-like situation amid unrest caused by a crackdown against protesting citizens. The city faced a blackout of mobile and internet communications for almost a week. While the mobile networks have been restored, the internet has been shut down… Read More Pakistan’s Port City Gwadar in Chaos
Production of opium has flourished in Myanmar since the military’s seizure of power, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past year, according to a UN report. In 2022, in the first full growing season since the military wrested control from the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in… Read More Myanmar opium production surges since coup, UN finds
“I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know it’s not some place you can look for. Because it’s not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something. And if you find that moment…it lasts forever.” Dario Feat – Voices We sailed… Read More Dario G Feat. Vanessa Quinones – Voices
Nesrine Malik According to Oxfam’s annual inequality report, released to coincide with the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, the richest 1% of people have captured nearly twice as much new wealth as the rest of the world combined since the pandemic. Their fortune soared by $26tn, increasing their share of new wealth from 50% to two-thirds. The… Read More Look at how the world’s super-rich are doing now, and tell me the system isn’t rigged
After the truth-shower 