|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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Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2
on 12 December | 2025
Efforts to lower the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may come too late to prevent long-term changes to the Arctic
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Mars may once have had a much larger moon
on 12 December | 2025
There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a gravitational pull to drive tides in the Red Planet's lost lakes and seas
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Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer
on 12 December | 2025
Controlling qubits with quantum superpositions allows them to dramatically violate a fundamental limit and encode information for about five times longer during quantum computations
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New antibiotic could stave off drug-resistant gonorrhoea
on 11 December | 2025
Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the microbe responsible for gonorrhoea, is developing resistance to most antibiotics, which means we need new drugs to treat the condition. An antibiotic called zoliflodacin might be part of a solution
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Disney and OpenAI have made a surprise deal – what happens next?
on 11 December | 2025
In a stunning reversal, Disney has changed tack with regard to safeguarding its copyrighted characters from incorporation into AI tools – perhaps a sign that no one can stem the tide of AI
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Killer whales and dolphins are ‘being friends’ to hunt salmon together
on 11 December | 2025
White-sided dolphins seem to help killer whales "scout" and catch Chinook salmon near Vancouver Island, then eat the leftovers
|General
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What we know so far about the Brown University...
on 15 December | 2025 at 01:00
The identities of those killed or injured have not yet been released, but the university said all the victims were students.
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'Person of interest' detained over Brown...
on 15 December | 2025 at 00:14
Two people died and nine others were injured in the incident in Rhode Island on Saturday.
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Three Americans killed by IS gunman in Syria, US...
on 14 December | 2025 at 21:49
Two US soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in the attack, according to the US Central Command.
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'Never give up': Belarusian prisoners celebrate...
on 14 December | 2025 at 18:18
"It's a feeling of incredible happiness," says political prisoner Maria Kolesnikova, freed after more than five years.
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Eyewitness captures moment man tackles and...
on 14 December | 2025 at 11:24
New South Wales Police say that 11 people were killed, plus one gunman, in a shooting at Bondi Beach targeting the Jewish community.
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John Cena takes his final bow, after last ever...
on 14 December | 2025 at 09:15
The actor and wrestler brought the curtain down on a 24-year career that saw him become one of wrestling's biggest stars.
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Five arrested over plot to attack German...
on 14 December | 2025 at 08:46
Local media says one of the suspects is an imam at a mosque, and police allege he "called for a vehicle attack".

“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













