|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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Dutch air force reads pilots' brainwaves to make training harder
on 3 February | 2026While pilots are flying in a VR simulation, their brainwave patterns can be fed into an AI model that assesses how challenging they are finding a task and adjusts the difficulty accordingly
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Why did SpaceX just apply to launch 1 million satellites?
on 3 February | 2026SpaceX says it wants to deploy an astronomical number of data centres in orbit to supply power for artificial intelligence, but the proposal might not be entirely serious
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How to live a meaningful life, according to science
on 3 February | 2026The meaning of life has puzzled philosophers for millennia, but new research suggests it could be as simple as lending a helping hand
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Ants attack their nest-mates because pollution changes their smell
on 2 February | 2026Ants rely on scent to recognise their comrades, and when they are exposed to common air pollutants, other members of their colony react as if they are enemies
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A huge cloud of dark matter may be lurking near our solar system
on 2 February | 2026For the first time, researchers have found what seems to be a cloud of dark matter about 60 million times the mass of the sun in our galactic neighbourhood
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Treating cancer before 3pm could help patients live longer
on 2 February | 2026The most robust evidence to date shows that people with a type of lung cancer lived longer if they received immunotherapy before 3pm
|General
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Fourteen migrants dead after collision with Greek...
on 3 February | 2026 at 22:41The coastguard said a pursuit was under way at the time of the collision, near the island of Chios.
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Trial of Norway crown princess's son hears...
on 3 February | 2026 at 22:27The first alleged victim begins giving evidence in Marius Borg Høiby's trial for rape and more than 30 other alleged offences.
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House shelves contempt vote as Clintons agree to...
on 3 February | 2026 at 22:24The couple will appear on two separate days in late February for a deposition after coming to an agreement with the House oversight committee.
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of ex-Libyan leader,...
on 3 February | 2026 at 21:57The 53-year-old, who was once widely seen as the second most powerful person in Libya, was killed on Tuesday according to Libyan media.
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Spain announces plans to ban social media for...
on 3 February | 2026 at 20:32Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says the move will protect children from the "digital Wild West".
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Trump says Republicans 'should take over the...
on 3 February | 2026 at 20:20American elections are primarily run by state law, and voting is administered by local officials across the country.
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US says it shot down Iranian drone flying towards...
on 3 February | 2026 at 18:45A US military spokesman says the drone was shot down while approaching an American vessel in the Arabian Sea.
“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]
