|RECENT SKETCHES & ESSAYS
|RECENT SKETCHES & ESSAYS
Slow Horses: Slow-Burn Rebuttal
★★★★☆ [See-Saw Films Apple TV+] Slow Horses arrives like a corrective: a...
When Representation Masks Prejudice
Is it reasonable to expect marketing campaigns to reflect the demographics...
Becoming a Retail Impresario
For years my wife encouraged me to commercialise my art and designs,...
Thinking with Machines
I feel genuinely privileged to be alive in this era. The technological...
The Polite Exclusion of Home
I grew up in Birmingham during my formative years. Not inner‑city...
From Stutter to Boom
James Earl Jones Dies at 93 January 17th 1931 - September 9th 2024 James...
Slow Horses: Slow-Burn Rebuttal
★★★★☆ [See-Saw Films Apple TV+] Slow Horses arrives like a corrective: a spy drama that chooses...
When Representation Masks Prejudice
Is it reasonable to expect marketing campaigns to reflect the demographics of the population...
Becoming a Retail Impresario
For years my wife encouraged me to commercialise my art and designs, starting with the car...
Thinking with Machines
I feel genuinely privileged to be alive in this era. The technological leaps humanity has made...
The Polite Exclusion of Home
I grew up in Birmingham during my formative years. Not inner‑city Birmingham, not the grey belt...
From Stutter to Boom
James Earl Jones Dies at 93 January 17th 1931 - September 9th 2024 James Earl Jones, the...
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood”
Agatha Christie
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood”
Agatha Christie
|HAPPENING ELSEWHERE
|Science
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Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago
on 28 November | 2025Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up Australia. Now, a genetic study has edged us closer to understanding how and when they achieved this
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Why Google’s custom AI chips are shaking up the tech industry
on 28 November | 2025Google is reportedly in talks to sell its tensor processing units – a type of computer chip specially designed for AI – to other tech companies, a move that could unsettle the dominant chip-maker Nvidia
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Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may be behind tooth loss
on 28 November | 2025Dental problems often arise or get worse during pregnancy, and a new study hints that rapid changes to the oral microbiome at this time could be at least partly to blame
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Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb
on 28 November | 2025Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017
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Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years
on 28 November | 2025Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment
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Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe
on 28 November | 2025Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have spotted the first hints that they are real
|General
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Dignitas founder dies by assisted suicide aged...
on 30 November | 2025 at 19:30Ludwig Minelli founded the group in 1998, which has since helped thousands of people to die.
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Three children among four killed in shooting at...
on 30 November | 2025 at 19:10Officials say 11 others are injured in what they believe is a "targeted" shooting at a children's birthday party.
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Hondurans vote in election shadowed by Trump aid...
on 30 November | 2025 at 18:56The US president is threatening to cut aid to Honduras if his favoured right-wing presidential candidate does not win.
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Indonesia searches for hundreds missing in deadly...
on 30 November | 2025 at 16:06The death toll on the island of Sumatra has risen to more than 440, the government says.
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Husband and wife accused of using spycam and...
on 30 November | 2025 at 14:42The husband and wife are alleged to have used a range of devices - including earpieces - to cheat card games over a number of weeks.
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Climate protesters in kayaks disrupt operations...
on 30 November | 2025 at 13:08Dozens have been arrested during climate protests at one of the world's biggest coal export ports.
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Hong Kong fire death toll rises to 146 as...
on 30 November | 2025 at 12:13Authorities say they have completed searches of four of the seven towers as part of a criminal investigation.
“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
Simone de Beauvoir
|DAYS UNTIL THE CIRCUS
BELGIAN GP [Spa-Francorchamps]
