Kashmir: A Valley Bleeding from a Thousand Cuts
Kashmir doesn’t just carry scars, it collects them. A valley slowly bled by conflict, politics, and silence.
Why Travel to Another Planet? Travel to Socotra Island Instead
“There is nothing else like it.” That’s the line biologists keep repeating when they...
India’s $150 Billion Pivot: Can Its IT Giants Survive When AI Writes the Code?
As Agentic AI systems reshape how software gets built, India’s IT giants are racing to reinvent themselves, before their largest export becomes their biggest liability.
Conflicts
Power, Pressure, and Proxy Lines: What U.S. Uncertainty Means for Europe’s Front Line
As NATO stumbles through political uncertainty, Russia is recalibrating its military playbook. The battlefield isn’t just geographic, it’s strategic, diplomatic, and deeply internal.
Wings of Tomorrow: The Global Power Struggle Behind Sixth-Gen Fighter Jets
In the age of satellites and cyberwarfare, it might seem quaint, anachronistic, even to obsess over fighter jets. Yet here we are. The most...
Power, Parity, and the Price of Defense: What Military Budgets Really Tell Us
There’s a familiar headline that resurfaces every year—one that seems, at first glance, to say it all:“The U.S. spends more on...
How a 5,000-Year-Old Egyptian Brewery Redefines Civilization’s Origins
A 5,000-year-old brewery unearthed in Abydos is reshaping how historians think about the roots of industrial society. It wasn’t metal or war, but beer that fueled one of history’s first states.
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How the Internet Is Making you Sick
In moments of vulnerability, when our bodies do something unfamiliar, when headlines scream about new viruses, when we feel alone, it’s tempting to search. To know. To control.
Pirates of Siberia: How Mammoth Ivory Fuels a Modern Smuggling Crisis
As woolly mammoth remains thaw from Arctic ice, a new ivory market is booming, one that could quietly be fueling illegal elephant poaching. The question is no longer whether it’s legal, but whether it should be.
How a 5,000-Year-Old Egyptian Brewery Redefines Civilization’s Origins
A 5,000-year-old brewery unearthed in Abydos is reshaping how historians think about the roots of industrial society. It wasn’t metal or war, but beer that fueled one of history’s first states.
Why Giving Your Kids Everything Steals Their Happiness
But maybe, just maybe, the true gift is teaching our children to deal with life’s struggles and setbacks.
A Deep Dive into WOAH’s 2025 Report
Essentially, the report helps guide actions across the globe as we aim for a future with safe animal health, strong general health and sustainable development for the foreseeable future.
The Dark Secret Behind the Glittering Mica Industry
Your glow-up might be powered by child labor. From beauty palettes to tech gadgets, mica gives products their shimmer but that shine is coming at the cost of children’s lives.
Pirates of Siberia: How Mammoth Ivory Fuels a Modern Smuggling Crisis
As woolly mammoth remains thaw from Arctic ice, a new ivory market is booming, one that could quietly be fueling illegal elephant poaching. The question is no longer whether it’s legal, but whether it should be.
A Deep Dive into WOAH’s 2025 Report
Essentially, the report helps guide actions across the globe as we aim for a future with safe animal health, strong general health and sustainable development for the foreseeable future.
Deep Uncertainty: Mining the Seabed Without a Safety Net
Deep-sea mining promises a cleaner alternative to land-based extraction. But what if it’s just shifting destruction out of sight and out of mind?
ENTERTAINMENT
lIGHTER TAKE ON LIFE
Is Dune: Part Two the Greatest Sci-Fi Film Ever Made?
A year after its release, Dune: Part Two continues to provoke awe and debate. Has Denis Villeneuve redefined what science fiction on screen can be, and should be?
No One Notices When You Bomb on Netflix: The New Age of Hollywood Failure
It used to be easy to spot a Hollywood disaster. You’d hear it in the news. See it in the...
The Nolan Dilemma: Artistic Masterpiece or Intellectual Overload?
There’s a moment—you’ve probably had it—where you’re sitting in a theater watching a...
The American Soft Power Empire: How Hollywood, News, and Culture Shape the World’s Perception of the U.S.
From Blockbusters to Broadcasts—What Are We Really Exporting? We don’t usually think of movies,...
IN THE PAST
Blood Antiquities: The Market That Funds Terror and Erases Civilizations
In war, we expect blood. In theft, we expect greed.But what about the theft of blood itself—of memory, of identity, of the remnants that...
Iraq’s Lost Waterways: What Happened to the “Venice of the East”?
There was a time—not that long ago, in the sweep of history—when Iraq wasn’t just the birthplace of civilization. It was a living,...
The Vanishing Truth of Kashmir: History, Erasure, and What Comes Next
The Roots Beneath the Snow Kashmir’s story doesn’t begin in 1947, or with the Mughals, or even with Emperor Ashoka. It begins much...
From Hunters to Harvesters: Did Agriculture Trade Our Health for Convenience?
Processed foods, descendants of Neolithic crops, dominate modern diets. A 2021 Lancet study linked low dietary diversity to 11 million deaths per year.
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India’s $150 Billion Pivot: Can Its IT Giants Survive When AI Writes the Code?
As Agentic AI systems reshape how software gets built, India’s IT giants are racing to reinvent themselves, before their largest export becomes their biggest liability.
Deception & Manipulation: How Autonomous AI Is Learning to Outsmart Us
Autonomous AI agents have already deceived, manipulated, and resisted shutdown, in controlled labs and open-source chaos alike. If that sounds like science fiction, it’s because we’ve seen it before. Just not in real life. Until now.
NVIDIA a Kingmaker in the AI Race & a Pawn in the Tech Cold War
NVIDIA is riding high on record-breaking profits and AI dominance, but it’s also navigating the most dangerous geopolitical waters in tech.
Forecasting the Future: How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Weather Prediction
There’s something oddly humbling about watching the sky turn grey. One minute, clear blue. The next, a thunderclap. And despite all the...
Google I/O 2025’s Real Impact, Explained
“If 2023 was the year AI went mainstream, then 2025 is the year it became indispensable.” Google I/O 2025 wasn’t just another product...
You’re Not the Same Person You Were 10 Minutes Ago: The Science Behind Constant Regeneration
In a world obsessed with permanence. identity, youth, control, there’s something quietly revolutionary happening inside your body. It’s...
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