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An analysis of the Gilets Jaunes movement that has rocked Emmanuel Macron’s administration.
An analysis of the Gilets Jaunes movement that has rocked Emmanuel Macron’s administration.
Technology and media analyst Ben Thompson looks into the new direction for Facebook laid out this week by Mark Zuckerberg.
Another look at Donald Trump’s bellicose National Security Advisor. The author proposes that John Bolton’s obsessive focus on the USA’s national interest to the exclusion of everything else has the potential to make him a tempering influence on the President.
A new state-of-the-art simulation from the California Institute of Technology suggests that clouds are critical to the future of climate change. At a certain tipping point the study suggests they will disappear, with disastrous consequences.
A look at the incredibly challenging work done by moderators at Facebook and their outsourcing partners, reportedly in far from ideal conditions.
Stéphane Breitwieser is a thief who millions of dollars worth of art, apparently primarily through sleight of hand and an astonishing appetite for risk. He is unlike most other art thieves in that he stole with no intention to sell, but apparently for the love of the work itself.
A story about “whale falls”, the marine biologist term for when a dead whale carcass falls to the seabed and becomes the basis for a rich ecosystem of life, some elements of which have only been observed in such circumstances.
Roberto Saviano, the author of Gomorrah, on a strand of migration to the US linked directly to the effects of the Honduran drugs trade.
A fine piece about the story behind a powerful image of injured US Marines in the Vietnam War.
The story of a science-fiction infused conspiracy theory and a meditation on conspiracy theories in the internet age.