The inclusive and evolutionary process of change should have taken root, but instead are witnessing a doubling down of a rotten mutation of the privileged who possess privileges that can only persist if they clearly exclude (and demean) the majority. images.dawn.com/news/1191542
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This week's story is “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak” by Jamil Jan Kochai. newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
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The most creative company of the last 30 years:
Pixar.
Back in 2011, Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats shared their "22 Rules For Storytelling."
And the rules are a must-read for writers, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to tell captivating stories.
Here's the breakdown:
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Defining Hindustan Through Raag 🧵
1/ This is the racy iconic Bollywood song "Tu cheez badi hai mast mast". It might not look very classical, but the melody is based in the Hindustani classical music system using Raag Bhimpalasi...
youtube.com/watch?v=ozOj_Fy0…
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BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
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NEW: Brazil’s crops have been scorched, frozen and dried out by the worst drought in a century—sparking food inflation all over the globe
Read The Big Take trib.al/v4s0z3d
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mRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours bit.ly/3A3Zmaq
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“I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks,” Ceridwen Dovey writes. nyer.cm/ihbakFq
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Tell your Senators and Reps to pass PACTPA, a bill that would ban neonics and other toxic pesticides: tinyurl.com/pactpa2020
Watch: youtu.be/6gNMmXXUHZw?t=19m6s
See also: bulletinofinsectology.org/pd…
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Researchers have found a second protein that SARS-CoV-2 uses to enter human cells, potentially offering a new target for vaccines and drugs. See the latest #COVID19 research news here. go.nature.com/2QZlT3T
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“In society nothing is permanent,” Yuval Noah Harari, the author of “Sapiens,” says. “There’s no essence, no essence to any nation.” In his worldview, many of our daily political struggles barely matter. nyer.cm/Zs9Q4aV
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Most seem focused on finding villains in this sugar crisis report.
But the report does not talk about the real crisis that is eating away at agriculture and the broader economy in Pakistan.
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“Disaster"
A prescientific word meaning "Bad Star” from a time of profound ignorance of nature, when misfortune was commonly blamed on cosmic events. Would be true of a killer asteroid. But control of a killer virus? The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves.
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“All we can do is breathe the air of the period we live in, carry with us the special burdens of the time, and grow up within those confines. That’s just how things are.” A Personal History by Haruki Murakami. nyer.cm/CHAdywU
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For Haruki Murakami, a story begins when “something that should be there isn’t, someone who should be there isn’t.” nyer.cm/TlfQjcl
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