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David Hockney spent sixty years on a single question — what it means to look, and why no machine can do it for us. He has died at 88, just as the question stopped being rhetorical.

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In which eleven scientists may have vanished, Umberto Eco is consulted, and a superpower is found to have mislaid its ruler

On The Red Shoes, Timothée Chalamet, and the slow colonisation of culture by the language of content

It isn’t always a smooth transition, writes Julio Moraes.

Readers discuss the mental health toll of AI adoption, early intervention in youth mental health, and ‘love intelligence’.

In which a safety researcher walks away from the Zone, and the rest of us are left holding the map

In which we consider what Godard's computer knew that Silicon Valley forgot

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Donald Trump wants to put the former British prime minister on a new board to manage post-war Gaza. Here’s why that’s a terrible idea.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

A single stitch is a gesture, a thousand a garment. Democracy too is patched in the ordinary places, held together not by spectacle but by the quiet industry of neighbours.

The Fine Art of Making Peace with Unease

An Outsider’s Meditation on the Tailored Empire Pettigrew Warned Us About

The Walt Disney Company and Miral announced an agreement to create a landmark Disney theme park resort in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The Quiet Crunch: How Private Equity is Setting the Stage for a Sequel No One Asked For

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Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Where Machine Logic Meets Bureaucratic Farce (and Penguins Pay the Price)

In which progress arrives not with a bang, nor even a whimper, but with the satisfying click of wooden joinery

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Watching 'The Day the Earth Caught Fire' (1961) was a stark reminder that when humanity disrupts nature, nature retaliates—with interest.

After all, as Dr. Strangelove himself might say, “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”

Ah, how I shall miss those early days—a time when we could connect with the world, exploring an entirely new universe hand in hand, as one unified community.

I’m Still Here is not just about Brazil’s past—it reflects our present, challenging us to confront authoritarianism and the meaning of resistance.

Washington, DC, January 6, 2025 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has launched an interactive dashboard to monitor avian influenza A(H5N1) cases in the Americas. This tool is design...

Gojira will forever stand as a mirror to society, reflecting our deepest fears, our wildest hopes, and our unyielding resilience in the face of chaos.

Why We’re All Convinced Society’s Doomed—and Why We Might Be Wrong (Spoiler: There’s Still Hope)

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