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It Doesn’t Have to Hurt:  Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain
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It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain

Richard Penaskovic

Review of Sanjay Gupta, It Doesn’t Have to Hurt:Your Smart Guide to a Pain-free Life. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2025), $30.00. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, […]

“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám  1:17

“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:17

10/04/2025 By Juan Cole

Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

10/04/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
Who will pay the Price for the Killing of the Palestinian Aid Worker in Huwara?

Who will pay the Price for the Killing of the Palestinian Aid Worker in Huwara?

Motasem A Dalloul abujomaaGaza   ( Middle East Monitor ) – On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Israeli people saying: “A […]

Middle East Monitor

religion
Why the Pronouns used for God matter

Why the Pronouns used for God matter

By Annie Selak, Georgetown University | – The Church of England is considering what language and pronouns should be used to refer to God. The […]

The Conversation

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You're all Palestinians Now:  How Harsh Apartheid Policing is being Turned on Israeli Protesters

You’re all Palestinians Now: How Harsh Apartheid Policing is being Turned on Israeli Protesters

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s Apartheid state, having honed its instruments of repression against its occupied Palestinians, whom it keeps stateless and without rights, […]

Juan Cole

censorship
No, Discussing Israel's 'Right to Exist' is not Antisemitic; States don't have Rights, People Do

No, Discussing Israel’s ‘Right to Exist’ is not Antisemitic; States don’t have Rights, People Do

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – “Israel’s right to exist” has been challenged in expert testimonies by leading scholars Professor […]

Middle East Monitor

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia and Sport: a strategic Gamble aiming for economic, political and social Goals

Saudi Arabia and Sport: a strategic Gamble aiming for economic, political and social Goals

By Simon Chadwick, SKEMA Business School | – (The Conversation) – Boxing purists may argue over the sporting value of a fight between a reality […]

The Conversation

Batteries
Solar power battery installations increase exponentially in Germany

Solar power battery installations increase exponentially in Germany

( Clean Energy Wire ) – The number of household solar power storage installations has grown exponentially over the past four years, with a year-on-year […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

Climate Crisis
Humanity put out more C02 than Ever Before last Year, but Green Energy Kept the Annual Increase Small

Humanity put out more C02 than Ever Before last Year, but Green Energy Kept the Annual Increase Small

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This is a bad news, good news story. Cathy Bussewitz at the Associated Press reports that carbon dioxide emissions reached […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Silent no more: Criticism of the state's inadequate earthquake response reaches football stadiums in Turkey

Silent no more: Criticism of the state’s inadequate earthquake response reaches football stadiums in Turkey

Fans also called for the ruling AKP government to resign Written byArzu Geybullayeva   Screenshot from Besiktas football club’s official YouTube channel video of the […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

Displaced and Refugees
Race and Erasure:  Why don’t Syrian and Palestinian Refugees get treated like Ukrainians?

Race and Erasure: Why don’t Syrian and Palestinian Refugees get treated like Ukrainians?

By Ritesh Shah, University of Auckland | – (The Conversation) – With the war in Ukraine now in its second year, nearly a third of […]

The Conversation

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