Hipster ornithologist Matt Spracklen makes birds cool, while Elizabeth Day introduces an an insightful how-to series. Plus: five of the best podcasts about ancient history • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Tom Slick: Mystery HunterWidely available, episodes weekly Owen Wilson, Sissy Spacek and Schuyler Fisk star in this story …
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A day after activating Starlink internet in Gaza, Tesla CEO appears at Israeli PM’s controversial joint session US politics – live updates Elon Musk attended Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on Wednesday as a guest of the embattled Israeli prime minister. A day earlier, the tech billionaire announced that his Starlink internet service was now …
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Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix The global technology outage sparked by CrowdStrike’s faulty update will cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn, insurers estimated, as the cybersecurity firm vowed to make changes to prevent it from happening again. The projected financial losses exclude Microsoft, the tech …
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Two-child cap | Year-round holly berries | Palace costs | Old technology | Rubber band ball Polly Toynbee says she will eat her hat if Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves don’t get rid of the two-child cap soon (Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty – I’ll bet …
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A new exhibition showcases British hobbies, the Rotterdam Architectural Biennial and a South Asian London city map Both mending and hobby crafts get the respect they deserve in this month’s design news. Check our stories to see where these fine activities get treated as art. We also look at the history of Casio watches and …
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This strange, dark game is an allegory about voyeurism and transactional sex that gives ample space to freak ourselves out – and critics and players can’t get enough • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here A man wearing a weird animalistic mask sits slumped in an armchair in a grotty …
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I’m no expert, but knowing my neighborhood’s trees and flowers by name makes me feel grounded Eighteen months ago, I adopted a dog. Now I’m out on the streets of Brooklyn with my hound mix for at least an hour a day, strolling and wrestling discarded chicken bones from her jaws. You notice a lot …
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The performance artist and ‘sex clown’ shares her list of (mostly) wholesome clips: the cutest children, the best dog and the glitziest aerobics workout Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I am a person who believes in laughter. I work in live art. My main medium is performance. In art-making I revere legacies of …
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The country has long been the world’s biggest market – but the government’s interest is more geopolitical than environmental When Kenzi, an advertising worker in Shanghai, bought an electric vehicle in November she wasn’t even thinking about the environmental benefits. She had read Elon Musk’s biography and thought the Tesla 3 looked good. She also …
Creative director Andrea Lucco Borlera explains how this fever dream of a game came to be and why it’s not afraid to get weird Naked people with horse heads for their noggins. Nightmares so vividly surreal they blur into reality. An uncanny farmer who never blinks and forbids you from ever entering his room. If …
