Rashid's Blog: A Place for Inquisitive Souls

Across centuries and continents, there have been moments when death reshaped societies, toppled empires, and made entire populations believe the world was ending. These were not isolated tragedies; they were global turning points. Here are some of the deadliest years in recorded history. 536 AD: the year the sun went dark Often described by historians

The deadliest years in history: when humanity faced its darkest moments

  Amy Westervelt’s new book “Brought To You By” is not about the climate crisis so much as it is about our overarching, inextricable information crisis that makes climate change that much harder to address. The book lays out in great detail how our information ecosystem has become as devastatingly polluted as any toxic sewer…

Our Information Ecosystem is Toxic. But We Can Clean It Up

I’ve mentioned this before, but the Henri Lefebvre who wrote Les unités perdues (2004, 2011), translated by David L. Sweet as The Missing Pieces (2014), is not the Henri Lefebvre who wrote The Production of Space and The Critique of Everyday Life, among many other works.  For one thing, the more famous one was long dead when The Missing Pieces was published. The book’s final remarks

No, not that Henri Lefebvre – The Missing Pieces