Guardian Selects

Most recent stories in Guardian Selects

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  The Guardian

  

  Inside the hidden society of lightning strike survivors

  Guardian US - Guardian staff reporter

  After getting hit, they suffered devastating symptoms that wouldn’t go away. It seemed no one could help – until they found each other

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  The Guardian

  

  The new tool in the art of spotting forgeries: artificial intelligence

  Guardian US - Guardian staff reporter

  Instead of obsessing over materials, the new technique takes a hard look at the picture itself – specifically, the thousands of tiny individual strokes that compose it

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  The Guardian

  

  How I wrote myself into a real-life romcom – that became a survivalist thriller

  Guardian US - Melissa Johnson

  As a film-maker, I thought I could write the screenplay for my own love life. Then I got lost in a hailstorm at 12,000ft, searching for my ex

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  The Guardian

  

  Not all men: what I've learned as a woman working with sex offenders

  The Guardian - Guardian staff reporter

  I’ve been shocked and disgusted by what some men have done. I’ve also seen how complicated atonement and forgiveness are

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  The Guardian

  

  Why are we obsessed with symmetrical faces? An investigation

  The Guardian - Guardian staff reporter

  We’ve all heard that symmetrical faces are more beautiful and believed it without question – but our most compelling traits are imperfect and out of our control

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  The Guardian

  

  ‘If I followed me, I would mute myself’: confessions of a former pandemic shamer

  The Guardian - Guardian staff reporter

  I yearned for the partiers, the people posting as the virus raged, to be publicly shamed. But everyone is processing this differently, and I can’t change that