Descent into despotism
America, driven by the monotheistic goal of Manifest Destiny, expanded its territory with brutality. It swallowed what is edible, assimilating immigrants one by one to its conception of what is…
Investing in nutrition
Good nutrition has been recognised both as a basic ingredient and as an outcome of human development globally. As food and nutrition are important factors in human development, they are…
The ecosystem is breaking down
The ecosystem is the quintessential essence of life on our planet, and this crucial life system is showing signs of breaking down. It is likely a more pressing problem than…
Books, books
Nothing about the Panama leaks or cricket from me: four books containing valuable information will be discussed instead. However, first something about the successful Economic Cooperation Organisation meeting held in…
Positive developments
There was great news for science in Pakistan in September 2016 when Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading organisation that provides reliable statistical data on the status of scientific research in…
The deepening crisis of scholarship
Last week, I ended the first part of this series by sharing my feeling of shock and dismay at the decline we have observed in religious studies and theological development…
The dark side of Nobel prizewinning research
Think of the Nobel prizes and you think of groundbreaking research bettering mankind, but the awards have also honoured some quite unhumanitarian inventions such as chemical weapons, DDT and lobotomies.…
‘Anthrocide’
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: what do humans and giant asteroids have in common? Give up? I’ll tell you: they’re both responsible for mass extinctions. Not funny? It’s…
View Point: Our endangered wildlife
An AJK Wildlife Department game warden had a cute story (very scary for the characters involved) to tell a journalist recently of how men and leopards in that area react…
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