From ancient kings who disciplined errant monks to modern political battles over Gnanasara Thera, Sri Lanka’s history raises an uncomfortable question: should the saffron robe shield its wearer from accountability? The controversy
Elon Musk has often positioned himself as a visionary, tackling the great challenges of humanity—from interplanetary travel with SpaceX to brain-computer interfaces with Neuralink. But one personal mission seems to surpass them
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by Durga Daniel Levitin’s The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload masquerades as a beacon of clarity in an era drowning in data. With an authoritative tone draped
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In his first month back in the White House, US President Donald Trump indicated his interest in annexing Greenland and brokering a peace deal for Ukraine that would include access to Ukrainian
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by Satchi Timothy Caulfield’s The Certainty Illusion is a masterful, incendiary dissection of the modern knowledge crisis, a book that dares to claw at the bedrock of our cognitive complacency. With surgical
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My experience is what I agree to attend to. ~ William James What is the Attention Economy? The human mind, in its unrelenting quest for meaning and understanding, has always been the
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by Durga Evy Poumpouras’s Becoming Bulletproof is not merely a self-help book but an existential roadmap for psychological resilience, strategic deception detection, and the cultivation of a mind impervious to manipulation. Poumpouras,
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Jason Hanson’s Agent of Influence is an audacious blend of espionage tactics and business acumen, promising readers a shortcut to success by employing the psychological strategies used by CIA operatives. It is
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Philippa Stroud, the Conservative peer and founder of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, is rallying against the growing pessimism that has gripped the West. In an exclusive interview with The Times UK,
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All organisms in an ecosystem are interconnected, and any imbalance in this complex relationship can have irreversible consequences for both humans and nonhumans. Numerous examples illustrate how the destruction of one species
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Power in human societies is often viewed as hierarchical, meaning that it’s tiered and ranked. This view doesn’t fully capture the complexity of how power is managed in different cultures. Some societies
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How do we organize elements in a system? One way is through the lens of hierarchy, which presupposes levels, a top-down ranking of elements. Another is homoarchy, which permits one (and only
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No one knows why we dream. It stands to reason that dreams have some purpose because nearly everyone dreams, and we dream 3 to 6 times every night. People typically have several
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Scammers are increasingly using AI-generated “news” videos to manipulate and blackmail their victims, with some even impersonating prominent outlets like CNN. This deceptive tactic is part of a broader wave of online
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Britain is witnessing a concerning shift in social attitudes, with a growing tolerance for dishonesty and fraud, particularly in everyday activities like stealing from self-service supermarket checkouts. Criminologists have noted that pilfering
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Fyodor Dostoevsky is considered one of history’s greatest novelists, but he is also one of history’s greatest psychologists. His stories contain depictions of characters who span the spectrum of human personality, from
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