February 20, 2012

Sorry for the Delay in Posts

First, a big and heartfelt thanks to all of you who have continued to check Waq al-waq over the past few months as I’ve struggled to overcome several technical issues. (Yes, I did received all your e-mails, and thanks for your concern.) Thanks also to the crack team at Big Think those now seem to be resolved and you can once again expect Waq al-waq posts at a steady clip.

I will also see if I can get the handful of post I wrote on Ansar al-Shariah and AQAP transferred back to this page. In the meantime stay tuned for a post on Yemen’s elections tomorrow.

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Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

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The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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