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Restoration or Erasure: Old ways are erased by the new

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The Palace of the Republic, that once housed the East German Parliament, is demolished. A grandmother’s laughter passes from life into memory and the furniture that once made a home is taken to the tip. A friendship drops into silence. Old ways are erased by the new  In this fascinating collection of essays, most of them written for her column in the Frankfurter  Allgemeine Zeitung, Winner of the International Booker Prize Jenny Erpenbeck meditates, with a sense of both deep melancholy and wry humour, on the disappearance and impermanence of things. Recalling the shop that used to darn tights in the … Continue reading Restoration or Erasure: Old ways are erased by the new

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Free Will and Prediction are vital to intelligence, brain and life itself

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For some AI researchers a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence, although neuroscientists believe that the brain evolved precisely to predict the future- the “predictive brain” hypothesis. Blaise Agüera Y Arcas, vice president of Google, programmer and founder of its research team Paradigms of Intelligence,  in What Is Intelligence, prediction is fundamental not only to intelligence and the brain, but to life itself – by exploring the wide-ranging implications. The radical perspectives on the computational properties of living systems, the evolutionary and social origins of intelligence, the relationship between models and reality, … Continue reading Free Will and Prediction are vital to intelligence, brain and life itself

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David Szalay’s Flesh wins the Booker Prize

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David Szalay’s 349-page novel Flesh which explores contemporary masculinity through the eventful life of a Hungarian man won the Booker Prize for 2025 beating 153 rivals. Irish writer Roddy Doyle the chair of the 2025 judging panel and his fellow selectors Ayobami Adebayo, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Power,and Kelly Reid unanimously voted for Szalay from a shortlist of six contenders. Continue reading David Szalay’s Flesh wins the Booker Prize

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US Tech Stocks stumble after AI sell-off

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US Tech groups aligned with artificial intelligence boom have lost $1.2 trillion in market value since last Friday, setting Wall Street for their worst week since Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs in April 2025. The higher they are deeper they fall. Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, down 4 per cent with a market capitalisation loss of nearly $500bn, a week after its $5tn valuation, Meta who owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads, Palantir, and Oracle has fallen $1.2tn since the end of last week. Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Broadcom all lost considerable ground. The tech stock stumbled less … Continue reading US Tech Stocks stumble after AI sell-off

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Misrepresented women’s role in global economics

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Female entrepreneurs, economic revolutionaries who defied the women’s roles as producers and reproducers and the sense that things might have different if homo economicus, had been joined by femina ecobomics. In ancient Athens, did you know about Phryne, the richest woman who offered to pay to rebuild the walls of Thebes after the city was razed by Alexander the Great, or in Georgian England, Priscilla Wakefield, the writer and entrepreneur, set up the first English “penny bank” to help women on low incomes to save money and children to save from an early age ? What about the everyday woman … Continue reading Misrepresented women’s role in global economics

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Recipe for success of culinary hotspots

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In 1990, Great Britain was mocked for its bland food and over-boiled vegetable but by 2000 all that has changed, as the country was on its way to being one of the world’s most exciting culinary hotspots. From White Heat to Wagamama, Blood, Sweat and Asparagus Spears,  is the inside story of the explosive decade that eating out in Britain forever. Former Good Food Guide editor Andrew Turvil’s in-depth delving into our world of food, hospitality, tasting Marco Pierre White’s three Michelin starred food, clocking Jamie Oliver’s first TV take, Sally Clarke, chef and restaurateur, and fielding volcanic phone calls from … Continue reading Recipe for success of culinary hotspots

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Debates in Congress and the Supreme Court about executive power

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In The Pursuit of Liberty, bestselling author, Jeffrey Rosen, president of the National Constitution Centre, explores how the opposing constitutional visions of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton have defined America for 250 years, influenced presidents from Washington to Trump, how to balance liberty and power, and continue to drive the debate over the power of government. While Hamilton pushed for a strong Federal Government and a powerful executive. This ongoing tug-of-war has shaped all the pivotal moments in American history, including Abraham Lincoln’s fight against slavery and southern secession, the expansion of federal power under Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, and … Continue reading Debates in Congress and the Supreme Court about executive power

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World Travel Market 2025

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Day Two of World Travel Market, London 2025. Colombia which is surrounded by the Atlantic  Sea in the North West with white-sand Caribbean beaches and a rockier pacific coastline, in South East, on one side and shares Amazon River with Brasil. Its cobbled colonial cities and valleys clad in coffee bushes. Bogata is the capital of Colombia, with over 400-year-old churches and walled city of Cartagena in the north. You could also visit the ruins of San Agustin whose 5,000-year-old culture remain an enigma to this date.  El Calafate Patagonia, Argentina, has Los Glaciares National Park, the Upsala Glacier on lake … Continue reading World Travel Market 2025

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Travel in a changing world

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World Travel Market, London 2025, the world’s most influential travel and tourism event, brought together 45, 000 travel professionals opened from 4-6 November  at the ExCel, London, making it one of the world’s most exciting travel community, driven by surging global demand in travel. The Northern Pantanal, 3 hours south of Cuiaba, capital of Mato Grosso State, Brasil, is one of the most fascinating destinations in the world. Pantanal, the largest contiguous wetland on the planet, declared as a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO, is undoubtedly South America’s primary wildlife sanctuary, spanning over 58, 000mi2 with elements of the … Continue reading Travel in a changing world

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India woman surprise winners of Women’s cricket World Cup

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Women’s One-day Internationals- Final India Women Vs South African Women India Women 298-7 (50ov) Verma 87 off 78, 7 fours, 2 sixes, Deepti 58 not out, off 58, 3 fours, 1 six, Mandhana 45 off 58, 8 fours, Gosh 34 off 24, 3 fours, 2 sixes, Khaka 3-58,  Mlaba 1-47, de Klerk 1-52, Tryon 1-46. South African Women 246 ao (45.3ov) Wolvaardt 101 off 98, 11 fours, 1 six, Dercksen 35 off 37, 1 four, 2 sixes, Luus 25 off 31, 4 fours,  Deepti 5-39, Verma 2-36, Sree Charani 1-48 India Women won by 52 runs. India held their nerve under the … Continue reading India woman surprise winners of Women’s cricket World Cup