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  Maddox on Schultz and Gawne and Peregrine, ’The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects’

  9 September 2022

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  The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects by Ted R. Schultz, Richard Gawne, Peter N. Peregrine, eds. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology. Cambridge: MIT Press 2022. 338 pp. $75.00 (paper) ISBN 978-0-262-54320-0.
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  In this edited collection, a group of primarily evolutionary biologists examine the biological adaptations of insect species that “cultivate” primarily fungi as well as other insects (…)

• A Viral View | Fayezah Iqbal

  9 September 2022

  Inhale, absorb and drift from one pole to another. Soak in from both the worlds, devastation and prosperity together. Reaching the height of never-known scientific advancements, The human progress pyramid crashed. The challenge came from An unknown virus incompatible with scientific temperament.
  As the world mustered itself against the alpha, beta and omicron forces, We sat locked down fathoming the virus and paying the price. Many came to the rescue, Doctors, armies and research (…)

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  Cartoon: Rajpath Renamed - will they Rename Statues Now | Jayaraj Vellur

  9 September 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Photo: Man on the Street reading Humanite - the French Communist Party Newpaper pasted on the wall | Louis Stettner (1950-51)

  9 September 2022
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  Video: The need for scientific temper | Narendra Nayak

  9 September 2022
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  Music: Wobbly & anarchist labour organizer Joe Hill’s song “The Preacher & the Slave

  9 September 2022

  Joe Hill’s song “The Preacher & the Slave” first appeared in IWW’s Little Red Song Book

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  Roundtable: Amid Tributes to Queen Elizabeth, Deadly Legacy of British Colonialism Cannot Be Ignored

  9 September 2022

  Democracy Now - September 09, 2022: We host a roundtable on the life and legacy of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at the age of 96. She was the country’s longest-reigning monarch, serving for 70 years and presiding over the end of the British Empire. Her death set off a period of national mourning in the U.K. and has thrown the future of the monarchy into doubt. “The monarchy really has come to represent deep and profound and grave inequality,” says Cambridge scholar Priya (…)

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 3, 2022

  3 September 2022

  * Tribute: Mary Roy (1933 - 2022) | John Dayal
  * Tribute: Economist Abhijit Sen (1950-2022) | Bharat Dogra
  * On the Report on Reforms in Higher Education, Kerala, 2022 | P S Jayaramu
  * Letter to Director, CBI on the Bilkis Bano matter | Jagdeep Chhokar

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 3, 2022

  3 September 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, September 3, 2022
  Weather doesn’t know borders and most of all for immediate neighbours. The same monsoons bring rain to India, Pakistan, and all of South Asia. Floods are a yearly occurrence in the countries of the region. And this year too there was large scale flooding in the region. In recent years the intensity of rains and scale of floods, cyclones but also droughts have been getting extreme. Experts clearly see a link with climate change globally. (…)

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  Sleep in peace, pathbreaker Mary | John Dayal

  3 September 2022, by John Dayal

  I have known Arundhati Roy from when she was a student at the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture, her launching pad not so much in the making of buildings, but in the breaking of shibboleths, and the silence surrounding the powerful Indian state. That was her launching pad for the script of “In Which Anne Gives it Those Ones”, on to several other films of great aesthetics and modest box office, before she became one of the most famous writers of Independent India – together with (…)