S. Abbas Raza

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Jonathan Farmer at Slate:For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation's most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times' interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time. Scott isn't coming to poetry as a true outsider. He finished all the coursework and exams for a Ph.D. in literature, and he was a literary critic before he started writing about movies.

6 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Joseph Howlett in Quanta:Her lens is category theory, a way of stepping back from the specifics of any individual field in favor of a broader underlying framework that bridges all of them. By thinking of language as a mathematical category, she's been able to apply established tools to study it and glean new insights.

6 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

6 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Dannagal G. Young and Kevin Arceneaux in The Conversation:When political psychologists introduced this concept of "need for chaos" in 2021, they described it not as a psychological trait, but as a character adaptation that occurs when some people experience a cultural and political situation that makes them feel like they are losing status and power.

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Francesco Perono Cacciafoco in Aeon:I am a glyph-breaker. I confess. Guilty as charged. A glyph-breaker who didn't break anything, and that is quite paradoxical, because, to be a true glyph-breaker, you should have deciphered an undeciphered script, like Jean-François Champollion (the founder of Egyptology, who decoded the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs), Henry Rawlinson (who gave us the key to cuneiform) or Michael Ventris (who deciphered Linear B). Well, I didn't. But I tried. I still try, in a way.