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The Audacity of Hope (opens the original)
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There were two moments, during my three days in Liverpool for Labour, which I found genuinely unnerving. The first was in the exhibition hall, when the people at the Oxford Dynamics stand decided to demonstrate that their vaguely dog-like robots could jump onto boxes now, and I let out a yelp. (All those security measures and they just let these things into the building?) The other was when I looked to my right at a largely unthrilling economics event1, made eye contact with someone and took a s
I’ve been to see a particle accelerator (opens the original)
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In 1930, physicist Wolfgang Pauli put forward a theory he was very obviously a bit embarrassed by. The standard models of nuclear physics predicted that beta decay – a form of radioactivity, in which an atomic nucleus emits an electron (or a positron), changing a neutron into a proton (or vice versa) – should happen at specific, discrete energy levels. Experiments, though, showed it instead happened at a continuous spread of different energies. In contradiction to the law of conservation of ener
Book Club: Nut Country (opens the original)
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Jonn here. A couple of weeks ago at Waterstones Nottingham, I was interviewed about 31 Inventions That Built Our World by the writer Martin Fitzgerald. Martin has his own book to talk about: The Umbrella Man and Other Stories concerns those who witnessed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It’s a book about memory, how we construct our shared history, and what it feels l
Oligarchy In the UK (opens the original)
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To receive one £36m donation from a cryptocurrency billionaire may be considered a fortune; to receive two begins to look like carelessness. And yet here we are, watching Reform UK rolling around in a big pit of money, like a less amusing Scrooge McDuck.The first donation, from Ben Delo, a man whose ethical record is so impeccable he’s been pardoned by Donald Trump, came Friday night accompanied by a Telegraph column explaining that it would ensure “a fair fight and a level playing field”. The p
A very short history of cartography (opens the original)
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Jasper is up a mountain1, I’m off on tour, so this week you’re getting another of the chapters I wrote for 31 Inventions That Built Our World, only for my editor to ask me why I’d written it because we had too many chapters already and this one didn’t really fit. This week’s topic is maps, in all their glory. If you’ve not had a chance to pick up the book yet –
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