|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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You can now buy a DIY quantum computer
on 21 March | 2026Qilimanjaro is selling a relatively cheap kit with everything you need for a quantum computer – you just need to be able to put it together
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Inside the world’s first antimatter delivery service
on 21 March | 2026On Tuesday, CERN will transport antiprotons on a truck for the first time, testing the plan to deliver antimatter by road to research labs across Europe
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We’ve spotted a huge asteroid spinning impossibly fast
on 20 March | 2026Astronomers 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 | 2026A 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 | 2026Apophis 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 | 2026Tweaking our skin's microbiome via a probiotic cream could prevent frostbite and hypothermia in extreme environments
|General
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Israeli settlers target Palestinian villages in...
on 22 March | 2026 at 17:57The violence began after 18-year-old settler Yehuda Sherman was killed after reportedly being hit by a vehicle driven by a Palestinian while on his quad bike.
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Iranian missiles injure 180 in towns near Israeli...
on 22 March | 2026 at 17:35Israel is investigating how ballistic missiles got through the country's sophisticated air defences.
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National blackout hits Cuba for second time in a...
on 22 March | 2026 at 16:59Another total failure of its power grid underlines Cuba's hardship under a US-imposed fuel blockade.
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'We cannot be in peace', say Guthrie family as...
on 22 March | 2026 at 14:45A seven-week nationwide search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of TV anchor Savannah Guthrie has not identified any suspects.
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'A direct hit' - BBC visits Israeli town after...
on 22 March | 2026 at 14:21The BBC's Sebastian Usher reports from Dimona in southern Israel, which was hit by an Iranian missile.
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Qatari and Turkish citizens die in military...
on 22 March | 2026 at 13:35Four Qatari military personnel, one Turkish serviceman and two technicians from a Turkish defence company were on board.
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Sudan drone attack on key hospital killed 64...
on 22 March | 2026 at 12:15The strike killed 64 people, including 13 children, two nurses and a doctor, according to the WHO head.
“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]
