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The Market of Fear
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Alfred Hitchcock made fear a sophisticated form of entertainment. Above, James Stewart in Rear Window (1954) and Cary Grant in North by Northwest (1959).
Let us begin where discussions of...
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Time Turns from Ray to Nolan
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Separated by 55 years and radically different philosophies, Satyajit Ray and Christopher Nolan found remarkably similar cinematic ways to make the elusive nature of time visible.
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Beyond the AI Arms Race: The Apple Way to AI
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As the economics and ecology of hyperscale AI begin to crack, Apple’s delayed strategy appears remarkably prescient.
Apple’s WWDC 2026 delivered one unmistakable message: it has rebuilt its entire software...
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The Natural Beauty of “I Don’t Know”
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In an age of instant opinions and algorithmic certainty, intellectual honesty begins by admitting what we do not know.
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William Beebe (1877–1962), an American naturalist and explorer,...
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Will Gen Z Bury Political Ideology?
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From Kenya to Nepal, a digitally native generation is challenging the ideological foundations on which modern politics has long rested.
Between 2024 and 2026, across Asia, Africa, and Latin America,...
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What’s with the Indian Diaspora?
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Caught in the crosshairs of global nativism, Indians abroad must confront both prejudice from without and pitfalls within.
Over the past few years, tensions over immigration are intensifying, and today...
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Richard Feynman’s Bottomless Frontier
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From a Caltech lecture hall to modern cleanrooms, Feynman’s vision of the atomic frontier continues to guide scientific ambition even today.
During the fourth year of my doctoral research, my...
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The Adult Technocrat
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The danger is not technology itself, but the quiet, unquestioned surrender to its conveniences.
A few months ago, ChatGPT unveiled a new health feature that allows users to upload medical...
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Fab Dreams, Design Reality
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From missed opportunities in the 1960s to today’s fab ambitions, India’s semiconductor quest hinges on aligning world-class chip design with homegrown manufacturing.
In the context of the ‘Make in India’...
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