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Nästa onsdag delas Nobelprisen ut vid den årliga prisceremonin i Stockholm. I veckans avsnitt av Starta pressarna diskuterar yours truly tillsammans med Daniel Suhonen, Elisabeth Lindberg och Max Jerneck vad för slags teorier årets ‘Nobelpris’ i ekonomi har premierat. Vi försöker också — med utgångspunkt bland annat från Isabella Webers teori om ‘seller’s inflation’ — […]
Roughly speaking there are two types of corporations in China. State owned (SOE) and private. During the policy driven real-estate bust, the countries biggest builder, Evergrande, went under. But there was an assumption that the government would bail out real-estate SOEs. Well the largest one, Vanke, is going under, and the central government is going […]
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A few pieces of creative advice shared by Debbie Harry:
- You can’t please everyone all the time
- You can never make a big enough fool of yourself
- Use the perspective you’ve earned
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As my plans to interview Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie for The Believer first took shape, billboards sprang up, as if on cue, around Manhattan. Sprawled several stories high was Harry’s image, framed in a moody fashion-house ad. A glance up from the sidewalk suddenly felt freighted with the vastness of Blondie’s legend: the art and fashion iconography; the timeless hit songs; and the band’s enduring influence on countless artists, among them No Doubt, Garbage, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Paramore.
The BBC released a new minisode for Doctor Who, featuring the Fifth Doctor and Tegan, to herald the release of a new Blu-ray box set.
Contrary to the beliefs of some in the anti-vaxx world, infectious diseases spread through bacteria...
Arriving at Your Party’s founding conference in Liverpool last Saturday, the atmosphere was tense. While Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana both insisted that this would be the weekend that put an end to the factional strife that has so far defined the new party, the word on the lips of delegates was ‘witch-hunt.’ With the […]
The Reform UK leader is being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to present shows on the channel
SYNOPSIS
High school is no picnic for anyone, but especially if you’re one of Shakespeare’s most iconic leading men. Hamlet might be the big man on campus, but that doesn’t mean he’s got it all figured out. This drama puts a much-needed spin on a classic by imagining a world where Hamlet is young and hot.
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HAMLET
Sexy football player type, but not just a football player, because we need him to be smart and sensitive too. Lacrosse team, maybe? We’ll come back to this.
Required skills: Smoldering glances, ability to look deep without creating forehead wrinkles.
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OPHELIA
Hamlet’s friend, who has an unrequited crush on Hamlet. It needs to be realistic that Hamlet wouldn’t want to date her, but legally, we can only cast hot people at CW, so we’re kind of in a bind. Maybe she’ll wear glasses? Also, obviously, we’re putting her on the swim team because of foreshadowing.
It was striking that the most impressive recent speech on Britain's future in Europe came not from our current Prime Minister, but from one of his Conservative predecessors, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
How does memory transform far away from home? A Sudanese artist uses a surreal lens to capture his longing and nostalgia
- Video by Art21
Contrary to classic habit science, certain behaviours never become easy. Recognising this can help you stick with them
- by Blair Saunders & Kimberly R More
Malcolm Gladwell and Liliana Segura unpack how the death penalty is administered in America.
The post Lethal Illusion: Understanding the Death Penalty Apparatus appeared first on The Intercept.
Some saw the Moon as representing creation, yearning for the Divine, some saw the Moon as almost Divine herself
- by Ayoush Lazikani
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
Professor [Max] Planck, of Berlin, the famous originator of the Quantum Theory, once remarked to me that in early life he had thought of studying economics, but had found it too difficult! Professor Planck could easily master the whole corpus of mathematical economics in a few days. He did not mean that! But the amalgam […]
On a rainy morning in 1954, Sid Chaplin climbed out of the pit and handed Raymond Williams a letter: ‘just ten percent of authors originate from a working-class background,’ it read. The words were familiar, but lacked context. Seeking clarification, Williams presented the letter to Catherine Cookson, who had just appeared on an adjacent ballast […]
Potential flipper marks found by free climbers might point to the marks of frightened reptiles
The post An Ancient Earthquake Might Have Unleashed a Sea Turtle Stampede appeared first on Nautilus.
Some 68 skilled production and warehouse workers at CSR Gyprock in Yarraville, Melbourne, have been on strike for almost three weeks.
The post CSR strike: between a (Gyp)rock and a hard place first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Sometimes it seems like half my life was spent learning something new. The more I’ve learned, the more I’ve thought about how to learn, and I’m going to distill part of the process down for you. These methods are primarily about intellectual matters: mastering a subject, but are easily adapted to practical and creative skills. […]
Dead hair cells might confuse the immune system and lead to chronic shedding
The post Why Stress Sparks Hair Loss, According to Mice appeared first on Nautilus.
Matthew Cobb’s 3 greatest revelations while writing his book Crick: A Mind in Motion
The post Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin’s Data appeared first on Nautilus.