Read analysis by #MEMRI Executive Director Steve Stalinsky PhD: In #Qatar, No #Synagogues Allowed – And #Churches Only In One Small Designated Square; No Crosses Permitted On Any Building, In Accordance With Islamic Law – Report & audio here ow.ly/9mbl50XNInw

The terrifying ways that social media is altering teenage brains | Full Interview with Clare Morell Clare Morell 0:00 Hijacking our children’s brains 0:42 Smartphones are hurting our children 2:27 Social reward wiring 3:25 Dopamine deficit 4:00 Desensitization 5:34 A

Sleep is a better predictor of longevity than diet or exercise, according to new research. Here are some helpful targets: at least 7 hours of sleep each night, at least 90’ REM, at least 60’ deep sleep, and oxygen saturation at least 94%. sciencealert.com/one-critical-f…

🇨🇳 China's Tsinghua University has been filing AI and machine learning patents at a rate that overtakes a whole group of top United States universities starting around 2009, and by the 2020s it turns into a huge gap. That is not just “a good university doing well.” It looks like

Avoid becoming a "Vishwavictim"- After a year of disspating promises on the foreign policy front, Indian diplomacy must learn lessons for 2026- my piece on the disappointing year in India's ties with Global Powers and in the neighbourhood. The Hindu thehindu.com/opinion/lead/a…

Novak Djokovic on the discipline required to be the best: "I wanted one thing: to taste chocolate. I hadn't tasted it since the summer of 2010. I broke off one square — one tiny square — and popped it into my mouth, let it melt on my tongue. That was all I would allow myself.

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan

Correire della Sera, a leading Italian daily says in recent meetings between Indian AI-171 crash investigators & US officials, an effort was made to 'fix' words used in the final report to make the root cause more palatable. Translation attached. corriere.it/economia/trasp…

Not Just Nigeria: Across Africa, Christians Endure Burned Villages, Forced Conversions, Attacks On Nuns And Priests, And Murders And Beheadings – MEMRI Research Reveals A Widening Jihadi Threat by Steven Stalinsky, Ph.D. #MEMRI memri.org/reports/not-ju…

A research into cat behavior shows that domestic cats regard humans as social peers rather than superiors, often perceiving their owners as large, awkward kittens. Far from being aloof or defiant, a cat’s apparent indifference stems from a profound interspecies mismatch in

Dear ladies never forget that: The same world that shames me for being a single mother also shames you for not being a mother and shames another woman for having too many children..It shames one woman for having a child at the age of 19 because she's too young but also shames

Almost everyone in China gets a secondary education. Only about 60% in India get a secondary education. Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) is higher for China as well. (2/n)

Born within six months of one another, Gandhi and Lenin were arguably the most influential political thinkers of the 20th century. My column in The Telegraph compares and contrasts their legacies: telegraphindia.com/opinion/polar-…

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave an answer that redefines what it means to be a civilized society. It isn't about politics or ideology. It is about how we treat the most vulnerable among us.

Robotics could explode from $91B today to $25T by 2050, according to Morgan Stanley research. - Worldwide robot installations are growing near 13% CAGR since 2015. - Logistics automation capex is up 20%+ per year, and warehouses using robots report 25–30% higher productivity. -

Japan has successfully tested a system that generates electricity in space and transmits it wirelessly back to Earth. Solar panels placed in orbit collected energy and sent it to a ground station using microwave transmission. Once received on Earth, the microwave energy was

New York to install 27 feet statue of Buddha : Replica of 6th Century Bamiyan statue that Tali**n had destroyed The statue will be called “Light that shines through the universe”

My last read of 2025 - a book about my favourite philosopher, Ibn Khaldun. This 14th century thinker explains the world and its affairs through two sets of causes - objective (derived from Nature) and subjective (derived from culture). The interplay of these two types of causes