Plant roots don’t have a nervous system, yet can produce sophisticated responses. What does that say about intelligence?
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Delivering sincere compliments is a skill you can learn – and, done well, it’s an easy way to spread more joy in the world
- by Lisa Pavia-Higel
Late Twentieth-Century Techno-Funk Wake-Up Call Get up.Get on up. Beep. Get up.Get on up. Beep. Threep. Get up.Get on up. Beeeeep. Threeeeep. Stay on the scenelike a fax machine.
A new investigation exposes a global network of anti-abortion groups and US Christian nationalists using UK courts to target bodily autonomy
Telling the Truth About China’s Success With the Persian Gulf in flames, de-escalation of the cold war between the United States and China must become the world’s top priority. To that end, it is essential to explode a powerful myth: the idea that China has cheated its way to prosperity. ATHENS – As missiles, bombs, […]
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Cascading failure across the global food system is a real and horrific possibility, which most governments are doing nothing to avert. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th March 2026 The fate of environmentalists is to spend their lives trying not to be proved right. Vindication is what we dread. But there’s one threat […]
This is Part 5 of the short series of briefing notes that arose out of discussions I recently had in London about how a progressive political party might want to break out of the shackles that the British Labour Party has bound itself in with its obsession with fiscal rules and an adherence to the…
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Econometricians are, of course, well aware of the importance of the relationship between the data and the underlying phenomena of interest. In the literature, this relationship is generally couched in terms of a data-generating process (DGP) … If we were to be able to perceive the true DGP in its entirety, we would essentially know […]
At the start of the U.S.–Israel war, Iranian Americans were split. Now a NIAC poll found that two-thirds want to see it end.
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The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran war, resulting in undercounts.
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign director and Stop the War vice-chair convicted over Gaza demonstration that Met Police and Judge say broke restrictions
The core reason for America and Europe’s decline (and, in a way, Japan’s) was the belief by our elites that money was the only thing which mattered. Money is the ability command resources from anyone who will, or must, sell. People who need to sell their labor or starve—Marx’s famous “whip of hunger.” Countries who […]
The rise and fall of the Medici’s ingeniously engineered ‘Garden of Wonders’: the Pratolino ‘proto-theme park’ in Tuscany
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Infused with humour and nostalgia, a one-man show confronts the communal trauma of his parish in working-class Philadelphia
- A film by Gerad Argeros and Kaya Dillon
Twenty-four hours prior to last November’s Autumn Statement, a social media post from Prime Minister Keir Starmer read: ‘The cost of living is the number one issue people are facing, with too many struggling to make ends meet. I am determined to tackle it.’ The following day, Chancellor Rachel Reeves presented the said statement — […]