Cathedrals Why Notre-Dame Was a TinderboxThe New York Times The cathedral was all but assured to go up in flames.
UC Davis Gun Research Is Suddenly HotThe New York Times - By MARGOT SANGER-KATZIn 1996, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped funding research into the causes of gun violence. And for decades the field suffered from neglect: low funding and a corresponding limited
European Union How the City of London’s Brexit lobbying barrage failed | Financial Timesft.com - Cat Rutter Pooley As 2018 dawned, Brexit was nearing, the City was worried and a lobbying frenzy was in full swing. Envoys from London’s financial services industry …
Viral St. Pancras piano man's video with Cats star vocal goes viralbbc.co.ukWhen Ceili O'Connor - singer in the West End musical Cats - joined 91-year-old Denis Robinson as he tickled the ivories at St Pancras station, she made his day. Footage of the pair was posted online and
Entertainment (UK) Joseph Bertony: The spy who helped mastermind the Sydney Opera Housebbc.co.uk - By Ashitha Nagesh Over 1953, they moved in their tens of thousands, leaving war-torn Europe for Australia in pursuit of a better life.
Stanford University Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Orbit. His Body Is Not Quite the Same.The New York Times - By CARL ZIMMERFor 340 days, Scott Kelly circled the Earth aboard the International Space Station, gathering data about himself. He drew blood from his arms. He saved his urine. He played computer games to test his and
News A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of SecrecyThe New York Times - By MATT RICHTEL and ANDREW JACOBSLast May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed that he was infected with a newly discovered germ as deadly as it was Doctors
Personal Data Big Tech must pay for access to America’s ‘digital oil’ | Financial Timesft.com - Rana Foroohar What is the fastest growing part of the American economy today? The answer is the gathering, analysing and selling of our digital data. The extraction …
Tulips Planting the Tulip turns London into a theme park | Financial Timesft.com - Edwin Heathcote It might be a tulip. Or it might be a Q-tip. It’s clearly priapic. But however you describe it and whatever it is, it looks dangerously like a …
Southampton Looking for Brexitlandbbc.co.ukSpecial correspondent Allan Little takes to the road March was going to be the decisive month - the days that would transform the UK. I wanted to hear what people had to say and chose four places that
European Parliament Pro-Europeans must unite around the opportunity of the EU elections | Financial Timesft.com - Vince Cable The stress and strain of trying to deliver Brexit seems to have triggered an allergy to elections in the prime minister. The thought of defending her …
Algeria How Algeria's army sacrificed a president to keep powerBBC News - BBC WorldWhen the head of Algeria's army declared the president was too ill to rule he revealed where the real power lies in Algeria, writes James McDougall, an expert on the history of Algeria. For Algeria's old
Starbucks Drab London office block was GCHQ spy basebbc.co.uk A drab office block sandwiched between a pub and a branch of Starbucks was a secret base of spy agency GCHQ, it has been confirmed.
How chess became a pawn in the Kremlin’s power game | Financial Timesft.com - Sam Jones On July 11 last year, Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, flew to Moscow to meet Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. The Israeli press …
Foreign Policy Britain could stop the war in Yemen in days. But it won’tThe GuardianMonday night’s Channel 4 documentary, Britain’s Hidden War, exposed the depths of the UK’s complicity in Saudi Arabia’s bombing of Yemen. The testimony of various interviewees confirmed what I and other
Chemical Engineering Climate change: 'Magic bullet' carbon solution takes big stepBBC News - By Matt McGrathA technology that removes carbon dioxide from the air has received significant backing from major fossil fuel companies. British Columbia-based Carbon Engineering has shown that it can extract CO2 in cost-effective
BP Hopes Young Recruits Can Make It CoolBloomberg - Kelly Gilblom Every few weeks, in a glass-walled office with a picture of an oil platform filling the east side, an unusual conversation takes place. Bernard …
Finland Demographic time-bomb: Finland sends a warning to Europe | Financial Timesft.com - Richard Milne In a new building wedged between the sea and a power station in north-west Helsinki, a closely watched experiment in elderly care is taking place. A …
Brexit Theresa May deals triple blow to Tory hardliners | Financial Timesft.com - George Parker Theresa May wanted to have the first word. After a gruelling, seven-hour cabinet meeting in which ministers considered Brexit options ranging from …
What happens after rich kids bribe their way into college? I teach themGuardian US - AnonymousIf you think corruption in elite US college admissions is bad, what happens once those students are in the classroom is even worse. I know, because I teach at an elite American university – one of the
Orkney How hydrogen is transforming these tiny Scottish islandsBBC Future - Diego Arguedas Ortiz in Stromness, Orkney IslandsScotland’s Orkney Islands produce more clean energy than their inhabitants can use. Their next step? Hydrogen. Here’s why that matters – and what the rest of the world could learn. I’ve seen thousands
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoOsama Bin Laden Taxman kept quiet while £8bn fraud helped fund bin Ladenthetimes.co.uk - Tom Harper, Home Affairs Correspondent
Climate change fears spur investment in carbon capture technology | Financial Timesft.com - Leslie Hook In the foothills of the Swiss alps, a giant set of industrial fans whirring loudly on the roof of a waste incinerator hardly resembles an invention …
Opinion (UK) We risk enshrining the sovereignty of one moment: 23 June 2016newstatesman.com - By Colin Kidd The UK is told that to ask for a rerun on the 52:48 Brexit result is an affront to democracy, while Scotland hears its 55:45 IndyRef result was so …
European foreign policy: a new realism on China | Financial Timesft.com - Michael Peel The last time EU leaders held strategy talks on China was just after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. The 12 heads of state and government …
Lifestyle (UK) The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashesThe Guardian - Caroline Criado-PerezA female police officer had to have breast-reduction surgery because of the health effects of wearing her body armour One woman found her car's voice-command system only listened to her husband, even he
Death of the calorieThe Economist This piece was originally published in the April/May 2019 issue of 1843, our sister magazine of ideas, lifestyle and culture THE FIRST time that …
Hated and huntedbbc.co.ukThe perilous life of the computer virus cracker making powerful enemies online “We are never completely sure who we are dealing with, but my guess is that I have upset or angered around 100 different gangs
Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New ZealandThe Guardian - Mark O'ConnellHow an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific If you’re
Can you murder a robot?bbc.co.uk - By Jane Wakefield Back in 2015, a hitchhiker was murdered on the streets of Philadelphia.
