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How The Clash’s Joe Strummer inspired progressive politics in his fans

by Gregor Gall | Apr 26, 2023 | Golden Oldie, Political Insider

Joe Strummer, lead singer and lyricist for the seminal punk band, The Clash, died 20 years ago this December. Strummer, the son of a British senior civil servant and whose real name was John Graham Mellor, wrote songs that did not shy away from the politics of the...

Diseases gave us the rise of Christianity, the end of the Aztecs and public sanitation. How might future plagues change human history?

by Adrian Esterman | Apr 26, 2023 | The Analyst, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

“Every once in a while a book lands on your desk that changes the way you perceive the world you live in, a book that fundamentally challenges your understanding of human history.” So began the blurb that came with this book. Aha! I thought. The usual advertising...

The Longer You Live, The Better It Gets

by Garrison Keillor | Apr 17, 2023 | The Storyteller, zOtherDiversions

I went down to the Bowery one night last week to see Aoife O’Donovan sing to a ballroom packed with young people standing for two hours and whooping and yelling — I sat up in the balcony and whooped and yelled too — and what the woman could do with her voice and...

Wars in cities: three rules for protecting the built environment during conflict

by Hisham Abusaada and Abeer Elshater | Apr 17, 2023 | The Analyst, zNewsletter

During the course of wars, the infrastructure of cities faces destruction. Fighting, regardless of its intentions, destroys roads, bridges, commercial and residential buildings, as well as the architecture they embody. Throughout history and around the globe, calls to...

The Butterfly Effect

by Undercover Investor | Apr 17, 2023 | The Fund Manager, zOurWriters1

Chaotic systems can be described in many ways but the one I remember from my youth was dubbed ‘the butterfly effect,’ Loosely put, it describes the phenomenon that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world can dramatically influence the weather on...