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When New Technologies Meet Old Habits: Lessons From Delhi’s EV Policy

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At a Glance Delhi’s Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy 2026 marks a shift from encouraging voluntary EV adoption to actively reshaping consumer mobility choices. Through purchase incentives, scrappage benefits, tax exemptions, expanded charging infrastructure, and phased restrictions on new fossil-fuel vehicle registrations, the policy seeks to make electric vehicles more affordable, accessible, and socially accepted. Rather […]

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The Ceiling of Reason: A Thousand-Year Argument Over Intelligence and Wisdom

Editors Pick, Philosophy / /

At a Glance From an eighth-century definition of intellect to the rise of artificial intelligence, the question of what reason can and cannot do has never really settled. This article traces a thousand-year argument within Islamic thought—from Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq to al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd—and brings it into conversation with contemporary thinkers who have arrived

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A Thousand Feeds: Knowledge, Authority and the Rhizome in the Digital Age

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From the spider’s web of the social media feed to the printing press of Gutenberg, this article traces how knowledge has always travelled through unstable, branching pathways — and how the digital age has intensified that instability into something genuinely new. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the rhizome, it argues that authority over knowledge no longer resides in identifiable institutions but flows through constantly shifting networks, where expertise competes with opinion and evidence with virality. Moving from the Protestant Reformation to Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and India’s Cockroach Janta Party, the piece shows how old struggles over power, identity and trust resurface in new technological form. It contends that the real crisis of the digital age is not a shortage of information, but a deepening uncertainty about how to evaluate it — and who, or what, gets to decide.

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The Undying Miracle: The Strange Afterlife of Plastic

Editors Pick, Science / /

From the optimism of postwar consumer culture to contemporary concerns about microplastics and environmental persistence, plastics have become one of the defining materials of modern industrial society. This article traces the history, chemistry, and cultural legacy of synthetic polymers, examining how a material once celebrated for its durability and convenience became associated with some of the most complex environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.

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Editors Pick, Science
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Immunity Explained: What We Know and What Remains Uncertain

Editors Pick, Science / /

Few biological encounters have shaped human history more subtly than surviving disease. Long before immunity became measurable in laboratories, societies had already observed its effects in uneven patterns of survival. Thucydides, writing about the plague of Athens, noticed that those who recovered could tend to the sick without falling ill again. Centuries later, Ottoman inoculation practices would travel through diplomatic correspondence into England, while exposure itself increasingly came to be understood not simply as danger, but as a form of biological instruction. Vaccination emerged from this slowly accumulating recognition, that is, the body can be altered by encounter long before it understands what it has encountered.

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Foreign Students in India: Discrimination and the Question of Academic Self-Efficacy

Editors Pick, Mind, Social Psychology / /

Discrimination and the Academic Self-Efficacy Discrimination takes many forms, often subtle and difficult to name. As a foreign student in India, I came across a very particular one that may not be immediately identifiable. In conversations with other foreign students I had befriended in India similar experiences began to surface. They recounted repeated encounters within

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Editors Pick, Mind, Social Psychology