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President Arif Alvi talks about some of his favourite books

President Arif Alvi talks about some of his favourite books
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Monday Feb 01, 2021
President Arif Alvi turning the pages of one of his favourite books. Screengrab from video courtesy YouTube/The President of Pakistan
President Arif Alvi on Sunday while sharing what he considers the best reads of 2020 in his view, called for the promotion of a book reading culture in the country.
The president, in a video message, advised the people, particularly the youth to develop the habit of reading to enhance their exposure to the world and help suppress biases.
He said he regularly studies books on a range of topics from current affairs to computer science and tries to disseminate his knowledge to the masses through his speeches. ....

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Why our superstitious New Year's Eve traditions are important

Why our superstitious New Year s Eve traditions are important
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12/31/2020
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2020 was not a good year. Unfortunately, there’s no guarantee the next one will be better. Even as the introduction of new coronavirus vaccines offers hope for the future, the pandemic will continue to take a toll on the health and livelihoods of the world’s citizens for some time to come.
Nevertheless, as the end of the Gregorian calendar year approaches, it’s only natural to want to kick 2020 to the curb and start fresh in 2021. This rather unfounded optimism for the future is an important part of tradition when it comes to the turning of the calendar year. ....

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Life on Earth Is Ruled by Chance - The Wire Science

Life on Earth Is Ruled by Chance
15/12/2020
Photo: Jörg Bittner Unna/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Prince Hamlet spent a lot of time pondering the nature of chance and probability in William Shakespeare’s tragedy. In the famous “To be or not to be” speech, he notes that we helplessly face “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” though a little earlier in the play he declares that “there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow,” suggesting that everything happens because God wills it to be so.
We can hardly fault the prince for holding two seemingly contradictory views about the nature of chance; after all, it is a puzzle that has vexed humankind through the ages. Why are we here? Or to give the question a slightly more modern spin, what sequence of events brought us here, and can we imagine a world in which we didn’t arrive on the scene at all? ....

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