Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protestors gathered at the Port of Tacoma in Washington state under overcast skies and persistent rain, with the goal of obstructing a military supply vessel that they claim is transporting weapons from the US to Israel. There, they...
Before 1948, what was Israel like, and what was the Balfour Declaration? After the Ottoman Empire, which had dominated that region of the Middle East, was defeated in World War One, Britain seized control of the region known as Palestine. A majority of Arabs and a...
Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin made history when she won the coveted Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences alone, without having to share it with a fellow scholar. We’ll examine Goldin’s incredible accomplishment and the factors that led...
A relatively obscure author in the English-speaking literary community, Jon Fosse, recently made headlines when he was named the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature winner. The accolade recognised his extraordinary skill for expressing the indescribable, which...
I used to be a very naïve person who thought that world peace would continue to remain forever. I was the kind of person who used to think that organizations like the United Nations would not let another massive man-made destruction happen after World War II and the...
Every once in a while, a finding in the fascinating realm of science and discovery changes how we perceive the universe and how we relate to it. For their groundbreaking work in the field of nanotechnology, Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov received the...
