|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
-
Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in a single day
on 22 May | 2026Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the events that formed them over just one Mercurian day
-
Experimental mRNA vaccine may protect against multiple Ebola viruses
on 22 May | 2026Tests with rodents suggest an mRNA vaccine in development offers protection against three strains of Ebola virus, including the one behind the current crisis
-
Political anger affects the body differently to other forms of anger
on 22 May | 2026We all feel emotions like anger and disgust from time to time, but they seem to cause stronger bodily sensations when they're politically induced
-
Australia is battling its largest diphtheria outbreak in living memory
on 22 May | 2026Vaccine misinformation, nurse and doctor shortages and crowded living arrangements may be behind soaring rates of diphtheria in remote Indigenous communities in Australia
-
Mathematicians stunned by AI's biggest breakthrough in mathematics yet
on 21 May | 2026Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed as a monumental moment for AI in mathematics
-
Women’s better memories may delay Alzheimer’s diagnosis by years
on 21 May | 2026Women appear cognitively normal for almost three years longer than men after their brains start to develop Alzheimer’s disease, making it harder to diagnose and preventing early treatment
|General
-
Iran 'getting a lot closer' to agreement with US,...
on 23 May | 2026 at 18:05Tehran also signals progress on talks but says the key issue of nuclear weapons is not part of an initial framework it is working on.
-
Nascar champion Kyle Busch died of pneumonia and...
on 23 May | 2026 at 17:33The driver died aged 41 on Thursday after "overwhelming complications" from the illnesses.
-
Red Cross volunteers die from suspected Ebola in...
on 23 May | 2026 at 17:15They are thought to have caught the virus before the outbreak was identified, the Red Cross says.
-
F1 great Prost 'injured as masked gang raid home'
on 23 May | 2026 at 15:33Four-time Formula 1 world champion Alain Prost was injured when a masked gang raided his home near Geneva, Swiss media reports.
-
Thousands evacuated in California over warning...
on 23 May | 2026 at 15:32Officials warn the tank in Orange County contains a "highly volatile" substance that could lead to an explosion.
-
India's parody 'cockroach party' claims website...
on 23 May | 2026 at 15:25The satirical group has gained millions of followers as "the voice of the lazy and unemployed".
-
At least 82 killed in Chinese coal mine explosion
on 23 May | 2026 at 15:18The blast in Shanxi province constitutes the country's worst mining disaster in 16 years.
“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]
