|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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We’ve spotted a huge asteroid spinning impossibly fast
on 20 March | 2026
Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself apart
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Major leap towards reanimation after death as mammal's brain preserved
on 20 March | 2026
A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place and minimal damage. Some believe the same could be done with the brains of people with a terminal illness, so their mind can be reconstructed and they can "continue with their life"
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Private company to land on asteroid Apophis as it flies close to Earth
on 20 March | 2026
Apophis will be visited by multiple spacecraft – including landers – when it skims past Earth in three years
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Probiotic cream that ramps up heat production could prevent frostbite
on 19 March | 2026
Tweaking our skin's microbiome via a probiotic cream could prevent frostbite and hypothermia in extreme environments
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Mathematician wins 2026 Abel prize for solving 60-year-old mystery
on 19 March | 2026
Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together seemingly disparate mathematical fields
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Physicists create formula for how many times you can fold a crêpe
on 19 March | 2026
When you fold a flexible material such as a pancake or a tortilla, its behaviour depends on a competition between gravity and elasticity
|General
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Nasa's Artemis Moon rocket rolls back to pad for...
on 20 March | 2026 at 16:32
Nasa is preparing a mission to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
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Israel strikes Syria after Druze clashes
on 20 March | 2026 at 16:02
Syria condemned the strikes on weapons sites and government infrastructure as an "outrageous" assault on Syria's sovereignty.
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Hungary's Orbán accused of disloyalty and...
on 20 March | 2026 at 15:34
The Hungarian leader says a pipeline carrying Russian oil through Ukraine to Hungary must be repaired before any funds can be released.
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Publisher cancels horror novel's release over AI...
on 20 March | 2026 at 15:30
Author Mia Ballard denies having used AI herself when writing the horror story Shy Girl.
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Norway's crown princess breaks silence, claiming...
on 20 March | 2026 at 15:30
Crown Princess Mette Marit tells Norwegian TV she wishes she had never met the late sex offender.
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Leading anti‑racism activist in Tunisia jailed...
on 20 March | 2026 at 13:17
Saadia Mosbah campaigned for migrants, particularly after President Kais Saied said they posed a demographic threat to the country.
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I didn't know Epstein was a predator - Norway's...
on 20 March | 2026 at 12:38
Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit has said that she wishes she had never met late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

“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













