Podcast Showcase: The White Vault
Welcome to the next in the Podcast Showcase series, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This time, we talk to The White Vault Sum up your podcast in three...
The web’s top three #4
I can't remember the last time I've thought "it's a slow news week". We are bombarded by more and more stories on more and more platforms every day. This week, like the last few years at least, is no...
Podcast Showcase: Armchair Explorer
Welcome to the next in the Podcast Showcase series, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This time, we talk to Armchair Explorer. Sum up your podcast in three...
To pass or not to pass the Protection Bill
On February 22, 2022, the issue of the Protection Bill in Iran, which aims to apply regulation to the internet, came to the fore. The bill, according to Iranian officials, is to support web users,...
What do we know so far about the A68A mega iceberg?
In early 2022, surprising data were released about the A68A iceberg, a chunk of almost 14km x 8km that broke off the Larsen C shelf around 2018 or 19. Scientists from the University of Leeds...
The two faces of Venezuela: support for, and rejection of, the Russian invasion
Since the government of former president Hugo Chávez, Venezuela has been a key ally of Russia. In 2005, Chávez began purchasing Russian helicopters and armaments, which made Moscow a major supplier...
The web’s top three #3
We understand that everybody is overwhelmed with the information, recommendations and content that blasts out from social media every day. So we want to distil the best of the web by recommending...
Chinese women’s 100-year war with oppression
For an American-born Chinese girl like me, each rare trip back to my parents’ hometown is a blessing. Not just because of the warm waft of steamed dumplings mixed with the rumble of traditional...
Review: Red Rocket
If God loves a trier then He must fucking worship Mikey ‘Saber’ Davies in Sean Baker’s latest movie Red Rocket. He’s a handsome, charming, reprehensible douchebag, a spray-and-pray asshole...
Welcome to the Russian Reich
I have good news and bad news. The bad news is as follows: we are in a new and so far very shitty period of history. Russians are bombing Ukraine, my native homeland, and making threats about...