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Is the Pope’s AI encyclical a warning on Tech Messianism?
We are living in a world backed by technology that seems to have a spiritual project of its own. Are the fears of the Pope’s AI-critical encyclical founded?
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Month: June 2026
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‘This was something new’: what people in Greenland told us about learning to live with wildfires
It’s the new reality in an Arctic where the climate is changing fast.
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The condition that causes people to get lost in their own home
The condition is more than merely being bad with directions.
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Colombia’s new president ‘El Tigre’ promises an iron fist – but that may not solve the violence he has inherited
Dismantling the 2016 peace agreement and introducing a military clampdown is not the answer to rising levels of violence.
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Medical museums often display infant remains – how they were acquired was frequently harrowing and involved eugenic thinking
The inequality, stigma and eugenic thinking that led to their acquisition is often obscured or erased.
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New obesity figures highlight the income divide
New data shows obesity rising fastest among the young and the poor, while it’s mainly the better off who are seeing the benefit of weight-loss drugs.
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America at 250: the Britons who supported the War of Independence
America’s struggle for independence from Britain was supported by some highly influential thinkers in 18th-century Britain.
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Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy – an uncompromising memoir told through a difficult parent-child relationship
An uncompromising look at her own life through her complicated relationship with her mother.
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Do you want to be an astronaut? Career routes that can take you to space
There is no one way to be an astronaut; you can’t go to astronaut school.
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Can you make a black hole in a laboratory?
An astronomer explains why artificial black holes are pure science fiction – at least for now.
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8 principles from human ecology can help AI work for human well-being
Involving families, educators, engineers, designers and policymakers in AI development can help ensure the technology does more good than harm.
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As Route 66 turns 100, what is it that we’re actually celebrating?
The ‘Mother Road’ has long symbolized freedom and reinvention. But its history reveals a more complicated story shaped by migration, segregation and the highways that eventually circumvented it.