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Lois Beckett

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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Lois Beckett

    Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all (opens the original)

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    It’s a chaotic time in an industry that’s reshaping our lives – Guardian reporters and experts recommend the books that help explain how we got here, and where we’re heading Have you been feeling trapped in an endless cycle of artificial intelligence hype and panic? You’re not alone. It’s a chaotic time to make sense of the industry that’s reshaping our lives, whether or not we like it. Last week, another AI company employee publicly resigned, warning the technology “could kill u

  2. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Lois Beckett

    Burning Man at 40: the once anarchic desert festival faces a midlife crisis (opens the original)

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    The subversive bacchanal for San Francisco’s eccentric underground is ageing out amid an influx of the super-rich Burning Man, the infamous arts festival in the Nevada desert, turned 40 this year, and it’s showing some distinct signs of middle age. It’s not just the tech billionaires who show up to party, the chartered flights straight to the desert or the HBO documentary about behind-the-scenes power struggles. The tens of thousands of people who assemble each year to create a tent city in the

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Lois Beckett

    Burning Man deaths this year triple the average as attendee age at Nevada’s desert festival ticks upward (opens the original)

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    More attendees are in their 40s and 50s, with fewer festival-goers in their 20s Three people died at Burning Man this year, tripling the average number of deaths in connection with the annual festival that brings tens of thousands of people to build a temporary utopian community in the brutal conditions of the Nevada desert. The increase in fatalities comes as news reports have highlighted that the average age of Burning Man attendees is increasing, with fewer participants in their 20s, and more

  4. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Lois Beckett

    Want to borrow a dinosaur fossil? Try California’s one-of-a-kind taxidermy lending library (opens the original)

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    A natural history museum lets residents take home 1,400 specimens, from bobcats and beetles to snakes in jars On a hot afternoon in August, I walked out of the San Diego Natural History Museum carrying a whale rib, a leopard pelt, a taxidermized weasel and a small piece of fossilized dinosaur poop. It felt like a heist. These were real specimens that belonged to the museum, not gift shop replicas. But for two weeks, they were mine to take home, display in my living room, even bring to events wit

  5. Article · Sep 6, 2026 · Lois Beckett

    Tupac trial spotlights decades of US police failures in solving the case (opens the original)

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    Police received information nearly immediately after the killing. It took Las Vegas police 27 years to make an arrest For years, US law enforcement officials blamed their failure to solve hip-hop star Tupac Shakur’s murder on the lack of cooperation from key witnesses, and on gang members’ “snitches get stitches” culture. But testimony in a much-delayed murder trial, which concluded this week, almost 30 years after Shakur’s death, highlighted just how much law enforcement officials knew about th

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