‘A new abyss’ the brilliant Rashid Khalidi on
Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine

While much has changed since 7 October, the horrific events of the past six months are not unique, and do not stand outside history

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Invited to address a conference in Berlin about my work in Gaza hospitals during the present conflict.
The German government has forcibly prevented me from entering the country
Silencing a witness to genocide before the ICJ adds to Germany's complicity in the ongoing massacre.

🚨You don’t accidentally kill over 15,000 children…

🚨You don’t accidentally target refugee camps…

🚨You don’t accidentally kill over 100 journalists and over 250 aid workers…

🚨You don’t accidentally attack 35 hospitals…

🚨You don’t accidentally destroy over 350,000…

Dive into the perennial debate: Does economics dominate politics or vice versa? Lokniti-CSDS' latest piece in The Hindu by Sanjay Kumar, suhas palshikar, and Sandeep Shastri addresses this question for the upcoming #2024elections .

CSDS, Delhi

Exactly

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How does fever help us fight infections?

For millennia, fever has been recognized as a beneficial response to invading pathogens.

If this is so, why don't we have a resting temperature of 102°F (38.9°C)? Wouldn't that protect us even better?

Let's have a look.

Lancet cover in this week's issue
Linked editorial:
India's elections: why data and transparency matter
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Shame, of course, on MP and UP for allowing this unmitigated garbage to be shown tax-free, and on Doordarshan for telecasting such a communal film. I'm glad the Kerala government will take legal action against a RW blogger, among the worst of the lot.

outlookindia.com/art-entertainm…?

In a turn of events surprising to no one actually grounded in this reality... investigation of sudden cardiac deaths of 16-30-year-olds in Oregon finds no link to COVID-19 mRNA vaccination:
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
No death in this age group over the study period could be linked…

You may think the peas, potatoes or the smidgen of rice you line up by the side of your plate because you can't manage another bite are perfectly harmless, but they may thwart pressing environmental goals. My latest oped for the SCMP tells you how. scmp.com/opinion/asia-o…

The climate crisis is not gender neutral - by Soumya Swaminathan.

In 2004, Peter Higgs refused to go to Jerusalem to receive the Wolf Prize because he was pro-Palestine. That is 20 years ago. History didn't start on October 7. This is also a great lesson for most of the current academics who are too scared to show any backbone.

Congratulations G Kang !

You’re the second largest supplier of weapons to Israel.

Bragging that you offer aid to those surviving your weapons is absurd, not least given Israel is deliberately blocking aid from getting to those who need it anyway.

An awesome pleasure of reading academic scholarship is that we begin to look at things we previously thought we knew well, in totally new and different ways. One of many such enlightening instances for me was reading Venera R. Khalikova's 2017 article on Ramdev. (1/n)

New pod: The 4 dark laws of online engagement, according to psychologist Jay Van Bavel, PhD

1. Negativity bias drives headline clicks
2. Extreme opinions drive in-group sharing
3. Out-group animosity drives engagement
4. 'Moral-emotional' language goes viral

open.spotify.com/episode/5axHxi…

Yet another example of the *real* 'Kerala Story': Hindus, Muslims unite for renovation of 400-year-old Durga temple in Kerala
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode…

In the Lokniti-CSDS CSDS, Delhi survey 55% Indians expressed the view that corruption has increased during last 5 years. An opinion shared amongst both rich and poor equally. 19% also believed that it has declined while another 19% expressed no change in it.

Cities, renewal and memory.

This really is the question.