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Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility.

Colin Woodard suggests that we've been vastly oversimplifying things by talking about America's internal divisions between red states and blue states, between "the coasts" and the "heartland," between the urban and the rural or even the North, South, Midwest and West. Instead, the veteran journalist slices North America (sans Mexico from Tampico south) into eleven culturally distinct regions that look something like a continentally gerrymandered map gone wild.

Steven Pinker is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, the author of several magnificent books about the human mind, and one of the most influential scientists on earth. He is also my friend, an occasional mentor, and an advisor to my nonprofit foundation, Project Reason.Steve's new book is The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Reviewing it for the New York Times Book Review, the philosopher Peter Singer called it "a supremely important book." I have no doubt that it is, and I very much look forward to reading it. In the meantime, Steve was kind enough to help produce a written interview for this blog.

I'm genuinely excited today to announce the release of my new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. As of this morning, it is available in bookstores as well as for shipping online. The book focuses on what I began realizing several years ago is the crucial theme tying together most of the topics I write about: America's two-tiered justice system - specifically, the way political and financial elites are now vested with virtually absolute immunity from the rule of law even when they are caught committing egregious crimes, while ordinary Americans are subjected to the world's largest and one of its harshest and most merciless penal states even for trivial offenses. As a result, law has been completely perverted from what it was intended to be - the guarantor of an equal playing field which would legitimize outcome inequalities - into its precise antithesis: a weapon used by the most powerful to protect their ill-gotten gains, strengthen their unearned prerogatives, and ensure ever-expanding opportunity inequality. This is how I described that development in the book:

What is it about a designer that urges him to reinterpret the done thing? Check out this neonate furniture and space planning design team from Delhi, India and leave us your views…

Contemporary couture jeweller, Varuna D Jani believes that what she wears is a part of her identity, which, in turn, is reflected in her luxury brand of jewellery. In a freewheeling chat with IAnD, Varuna talks about beauty, inspiration, luxury and sophistication...

Don't you think school buildings with built-in sustainability features serve as excellent education tools in themselves? Read about one such school in Ootacamund and leave us your views.

Why should linear designs be the preserves of weekend homes/resorts? Can we not employ them in regular homes and redefine our living spaces? Get to know about two such experiments and leave us your views.

Luxury home design is all about exclusive and upbeat design reinvention. Agree? Take a peek into the design of one such house in South Mumbai and leave us your views.

Don't you think colours add an altogether new dimension to the spaces we inhabit? Get to know about a school building that oozes warmth by means of its diverse colour palette and leave us your views...

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Wingardium Leviosa!! Tech enthusiasts especially Harry Potter fans - here is something for you - a build-it-yourself tech kit that teaches you the basics of coding and equips you with the power to influence it to fit into your narrative of storytelling (ideas) and make creativity fun! Check out all you need to know about the Kano Harry Potter Coding Kit developed in association with @warner-bros--entertainment …

Yang Liu of DL Workshop, Beijing reminiscences about a recent adaptive project, where his design draws a parallel with the ethos of Van Gogh's Starry Night. Check out the intriguing equation here

Art, architecture and landscape are beautifully fused in this multifunctional space designed for an artist couple by @VeechxVeech Architecture and Design Studio. Read more about this compelling and immersive space here

Sensitivity in design nurtures the spatial and sensorial experience for diverse multi-functional programs - a postulate well-researched and explained by Ar. Shailesh Veera of SPIRIT as he speaks about the role of conscientiousness in institutional design. Check it out here…

#Madhuban by Manubhai Jewellers is a one-of-a-kind luxury jewellery boutique, which allows the client to try their apparel to match the jewellery they would like to purchase. Read on to know more about how Ornate Projects LLP has envisioned the space…

Sumessh Menon is known for reinterpreting oriental themes in a new way through design. POH, located in the upbeat hub of Kamala Mills Compound is a classic case of that style. Read on to know more about it here.