Nick Rennison
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- Aug 23, 2026
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- Jul 12, 2026
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Big Brother is watching you...no really, he is (opens the original)
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In 1989, just before the Berlin Wall fell, the Stasi, the Ministry for State Security in East Germany, had 91,000 full-time employees. That was equivalent to one for every 180 citizens. The Stasi used some unusual methods to spy on its own people. Cameras were embedded in jacket buttons; recording devices hidden in watering cans. As Ruben Andersson points out in this sobering, even scary survey of the modern obsession with surveillance, a few decades of technological advances has turned ‘our alw
The day one man and his telegraph abolished the Atlantic Ocean (opens the original)
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The Atlantic Ocean,’ proclaimed Harper’s monthly magazine in 1858, ‘has been abolished.’ Who had achieved this remarkable feat and how? As we learn from James M. Tabor’s absorbing book, it was a wealthy American paper merchant named Cyrus Field and he had done so by laying the first telegraph cable across the ocean floor. Communication between the Old World and the New could now take minutes rather than weeks. Harper’s metaphor seemed appropriate. Field had apparently succeeded in his self-appoi
How plants and poo lead to big pharma (opens the original)
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Skara Brae, a Neolithic village in Orkney, is one of the oldest settlements in Britain. During archaeological excavations, traces of medicinal plants have been found there. As Professor Flower’s wide-ranging book demonstrates, humans have been using drugs to combat illness for a long time. Cuneiform tablets unearthed in Mesopotamia, and dating back to the 7th century BCE, include 5,000 medical prescriptions. The so-called Ebers papyrus from Egypt is even older and ‘may lay claim to be the first
Will AI turn us all into paperclips? (opens the original)
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Might an AI system one day decide to turn us all into paperclips? This unlikely scenario was dreamed up by the philosopher Nick Bostrom. Suppose an AI has been given the only goal of producing as many paperclips as possible. Without restraints, it might come to the conclusion that, first, humans could choose to switch it off. It would want to prevent this. Second, humans contain atoms that could be put to better use as paperclips. So we would all have to go. Bostrom meant this as a thought exper
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