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Border conversations

Border conversations

In Border Conversations, the German filmmaker Jonathan Brunner embeds with a group of humanitarian volunteers in Poland as they respond to distress...

yesterday 30

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Life happened fast

Life happened fast

Here’s a story you might have read before in a popular science book or seen in a documentary. It’s the one about early Earth as a lifeless,...

previous day 30

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Michael Marshall

Glorious and mundane

Glorious and mundane

In my 20s, I longed for what Virginia Woolf in ‘A Sketch of the Past’ (1939) called ‘moments of being’ – those exceptional experiences that...

monday 40

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Diana Saverin

The geometry of colour

The geometry of colour

Can colour be understood geometrically? If so, what’s the best way to map it out, capturing the variables of hue, brightness and saturation? These...

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Socrates would be pleased

Socrates would be pleased

At 8:30 am sharp, a white van pulls up to Boone Hall, where the Outsiders are huddled in their black shirts, sleepy-faced, but in good spirits....

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Jay Miller

Goodnight, mister Stalin

Goodnight, mister Stalin

Joseph Stalin died more than 70 years ago, but the Soviet dictator’s legacy in the city of Gori, Georgia – where he was born and raised until the...

14.08.2025 10

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Witty wotty dashes

Witty wotty dashes

In 1936, Gary Cooper starred in the Oscar-winning film Mr Deeds Goes to Town and changed the meaning of marginal squiggles forever. Mr Deeds, a...

14.08.2025 10

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James Reath