Green growth claims are overstated – our study shows three reasons why
Real efforts have been made, and recent lines on the chart do go in the right direction. But what if they are wobbles, not turns.
思想
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Victorians called burnout ‘overwork’ – and they cured it by holidaying in France
Victorians were acutely aware of the health problems which could come from devotion to the ‘gospel of work’.
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The Time Loop Book Series You Should Be Reading
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How migration became a key to World Cup success
There is some evidence to suggest that national teams with more migrant players perform better on the pitch.
The Fifa men’s World Cup 2026 could be too big for its own good
How recent expansion could dilute football’s most powerful brand.
Solvej Balle’s Seven-Volume Time Loop
Christine Smallwood at Bookforum: ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME is a series of seven novels by the Danish writer Solvej Balle that imagines a world in which one November day repeats…
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Investigating the rise of early-onset cancer
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AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands
Stephan Turner in Singularity Hub: AI company OpenAI and biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks announced in February 2026 that OpenAI’s flagship model GPT-5 had autonomously designed and…
On Jack Spicer
Ann Vickery at the Sydney Review of Books: These letters are emblematic of the paradox that is Jack Spicer: the acerbic, deliberately un-PC misanthrope and the imaginative romantic…
How a simple blood test could help detect heart damage during breast cancer treatment
Researchers are investigating whether blood tests and heart scans can detect hidden heart damage during breast cancer chemotherapy.
Heartbreaking historical tales, unsettling scenes and shortlisted non-fiction – what to read, watch and see this week
Our picks for this week include a film where internet folklore comes to life, books to lose yourself in and a eerie landscape exhibition.
UK Home Office to use AI age estimation on asylum seekers – how accurate is the technology?
Leading algorithms now achieve a mean absolute error of less than three years across all ages.
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Friday Poem
Madrigal More transparent then this water dropping through the vine’s twined fingers my thought stretches a bridge from yourself to yourself ……………………………………Look at you more real tha…
How businesses with ties to Jeffrey Epstein saw norms – and even share prices – suffer
The more Epstein-connected directors a company had, no matter its size, the more likely it was to have governance problems.
Child drownings spike during heatwaves – and it’s a serious climate justice issue
As the UK gets hotter, children will seek water to cool down. The real question is why so many have so few places to go.
Building more renewable energy sources means rethinking land use for agriculture and conservation
Generating solar power requires a lot of land – but which land should it be? And what else can be done on that land?
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Why we ought to kill the healthy patient
by Jeroen Bouterse We are fortunate to live in an equitable society, with high levels of trust and excellent administrative transparency. Many old diseases have been eradicated, an…
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Napoleon Can Wait (II)
by TJ Price In last month’s column, I began telling a story that has its beginnings in a therapeutic modality called “narrative reprocessing.” Essentially, this is the act of re-au…
Antisocial behaviour. Or not.
by Dilip D’Souza What is it about ants? No, I mean it. In all my writing over the years, ants have been a frequent and nearly beloved subject. Some, when set down in a maze and fac…
Soft eyes, deep listening, and other ways to extend human perception
Jenny Odell at Longreads: A few months ago, I was on a hike with my friend Tom, who is in his 70s and has lived in the same small town in the Santa Cruz Mountains for 50 years. Tom…
That time global capitalism converged on a town that now has pop.111
Google maps said it would take 2.5 hours to drive from our place in the Blue Mountains to Hill End. Maybe we’re slow. And sure, we stopped to check out nearby gold mining village S…
Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas at night
Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas
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Pet Haidt
One my betes noires has been in the news lately. Jonathan Haidt has been annoying me since at least 2012, when I was critical of his bothsidesism on the culture wars. At the time, …
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Occasional paper: St. Anthony’s Turnip
Mostly I leave Sunday photography to our colleague, the estimable Chris Bertram. Still, this Sunday I was walking the dog in the hills above my town. (“My town” being a modest comm…
Sunday photoblogging: Canigou with cherries (2)
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The text is not the product
Academics, especially in the humanities, produce texts, and they teach students to produce text. This is a standard assumption, often taken for granted, and maybe not too surprisin…
From The People’s Bank to the Banker’s Bank
Last week Australia’s central bank (Reserve Bank of Australia, RBA) raised interest rates. Again. Political economists have been talking for decades about the RBA’s tendency to red…
Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas, maison consulaire
