|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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Why people can have Alzheimer's-related brain damage but no symptoms
on 30 January | 2026Some people don’t develop dementia despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brain, and we're starting to understand why
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Elon Musk is making a big bet on his future vision – will it work?
on 30 January | 2026Reports suggest that Elon Musk is eyeing up a merger involving SpaceX, Tesla and xAI, but what does he hope to achieve by consolidating his business empire?
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Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain
on 30 January | 2026Yawning and deep breathing each have different effects on the movement of fluids in the brain, and each of us may have a distinct yawning "signature"
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How an 1800s vaccine drive beat smallpox in Denmark in just 7 years
on 30 January | 2026In the early 1800s, Denmark’s government, medical community, church leaders and school teachers all united to promote the new smallpox vaccine, which led to a remarkably quick elimination of the disease in the capital
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This doctor is on the hunt for people with first-rate faeces
on 30 January | 2026Elizabeth Hohmann is very interested in faeces, and spends her days sifting through stools to find those that could make the biggest difference to other people's health
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AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggressive breast cancer
on 29 January | 2026Interval cancers are aggressive tumours that grow during the interval after someone has been screened for cancer and before they are screened again, and AI seems to be able to identify them at an early stage
|General
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Five killed in gas explosions in Iran, officials...
on 31 January | 2026 at 19:31A four-year-old is among the dead after separate blasts were reported on Saturday.
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Federal judge denies request to block ICE surge...
on 31 January | 2026 at 18:21A judge said ICE activity could have "heartbreaking" effects but said the state hadn't proven its case.
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Israeli air strikes kill at least 32 Palestinians...
on 31 January | 2026 at 18:06Israel's military confirmed the strikes, which come during a ceasefire that Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaking.
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Takeaways from the millions of newly released...
on 31 January | 2026 at 17:48Three million new documents include hundreds of mentions of Trump and emails between Epstein and a person called "The Duke".
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Pedro Pascal and Meryl Streep lead tributes to...
on 31 January | 2026 at 17:41The Canadian comedic actress died in Los Angeles on Friday at the age of 71 following a brief illness.
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Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites...
on 31 January | 2026 at 16:19The firm wants to create a network of "orbital data centres" to power artificial intelligence.
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Former CNN host Don Lemon charged in anti-ICE...
on 31 January | 2026 at 15:16Lemon says he was just doing his job as a journalist reporting on the protests at the church.
“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]
