Sometimes, the road to virtue comes by way of vice | Psyche Ideas
Psycheby Sabrina B Little17 Aug 2026
Imagine you want to improve your character. You are a bit irresolute and would like to be able to persevere on tasks.
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top 90%Worm munch matters: the new acoustic ecology of the soil | Aeon Essays
Aeonby Ella Browning17 Aug 2026
Listen to this essay 22 minute listen Earthworms do not have a discernible mouth, a means to make sound, or ears, and most spend their lives burrowing below ground, eating soil and decaying organic...
How Political Symbols Shape Power and Resistance in India
Frontlineby Isha Riza Khan17 Aug 2026
Authoritarian symbols have an ungovernable stubbornness. Devoid of agency, yet uncaring of their own origins, such symbols eventually slip from the grasp of their authors and acquire a life of...
Fenil Jain
Fenils Blog17 Aug 2026
Published on: 17/08/2026 Last edited on: 17/08/2026 This was a super interesting and SUPER LONG week.
How naming shared values is an effective approach to leading through a crisis
The Conversation Canadaby Mel Rutherford, Professor and Department Chair, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University16 Aug 2026
Leading always requires listening and understanding the goals and values of the people in your organization.
The New Right redraws Latin America’s map
Buenos Aires Timesby Antonella Marty, via Perfil16 Aug 2026
Latin America’s presidential map looks almost monochrome today: palace after palace occupied by a charismatic right that invokes God and order, from Argentina to Honduras.
How to Read the Signal of Your Life
The Marginalianby Maria Popova15 Aug 2026
How to Read the Signal of Your Life By Maria Popova Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning...
The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choosing Empathy Over Vengeance
The Marginalianby Maria Popova15 Aug 2026
The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choosing Empathy Over Vengeance By Maria Popova “Compassion,” Karen Armstrong wrote in her stirring meditation on the true meaning of the Golden Rule...
O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT puts you in an abandoned, dithered world with a cursed object and asks you to do one thing: survive the journey
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke15 Aug 2026
Do you remember, or do you even know, about the Game Boy Camera? It's exactly as it sounds, a little camera attached to an original Game Boy cartridge that you could plug in and take photos with.
The Ocean and the Meaning of Life
The Marginalianby Maria Popova15 Aug 2026
The Ocean and the Meaning of Life By Maria Popova This essay is adapted from Figuring. In June of 1952, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service received a letter of resignation from its most...
Sumit Sarkar: The Historian Who Changed Modern India
Frontlineby Charu Gupta15 Aug 2026
There are teachers whose lectures one remembers, and there are teachers who become part of the way one thinks. For many of us, Sumit Sarkar was the latter.
Life in the age of empathy
Buenos Aires Timesby James Neilson15 Aug 2026
In the not too distant past “empathy” was a rather abstruse technical term used only by philosophers and psychologists, but this is certainly not the case today.
And if the divided rule?
Buenos Aires Timesby Michael Soltys15 Aug 2026
Democracy stands to become self-destructive unless it can extirpate a cancer which can be termed electoral obsession disorder for want of a better phrase – something which seems to have powered...
Nancy Cartwright, philosopher: ‘People distrust science because they feel the system has abandoned them’
El País Englishby Selva Vargas Reátegui15 Aug 2026
Are scientific laws enough to explain how the world works? Nancy Cartwright, 81, has spent more than half a century asking whether they really are.
Technological Determinism and Human Freedom
Palladium Magazineby Evan Zimmerman14 Aug 2026
We fear that artificial intelligence will escape our control, pursue purposes of its own, displace human judgment, and ultimately reduce its creators to servants of the systems they built.
AI Needs Public Feedback At Scale Before It’s Too Late | NOEMA
Noema Magazineby Nathan Gardels14 Aug 2026
Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute.
The art of dwelling in Santiago’s self-built homes | Aeon Essays
Aeonby Consuelo Araos14 Aug 2026
Listen to this essay 24 minute listen Few problems feel more pressing today than housing. Across the world, access to affordable, stable, dignified housing has become one of the defining challenges...
Not a question of bias: Sumit Sarkar
Frontlineby Sukumar Muralidharan14 Aug 2026
Sumit Sarkar, Professor of Modern Indian History in Delhi University, spoke to Sukumar Muralidharan about his involvement with the “Towards Freedom” project, sharing his perceptions of the issues...
Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success
The Marginalianby Maria Popova14 Aug 2026
Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success By Maria Popova Evolution invented REM sleep, that ministry of dreams, to give us a safe way of practicing the possible into the real.
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Deng Xiaoping
Everything Everywhereby Gary Arndt14 Aug 2026
Podcast Transcript For decades, China suffered from revolution, war, and the radical policies of Mao Zedong.