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How far back in time can you understand English?

Why is the sky blue?

John von Neumann shot lightning from his arse, and rebuttal #1 and rebuttal #2.

Year-in-review essays permit a certain amount of navel-gazing, but 2025 resists the usual warm retrospection.

How France achieved the world’s fastest nuclear buildout.

You can now buy eggs from in-ovo sexed hens.

After a decade of watching United stumble from one false dawn to the next, fantasy premier league (FPL) has become my sole source of joy in football.

Will protein design tools solve the snake antivenom shortage?

Conquest of the Incas.

The case for colonialism.

The most controversial Nobel prize in recent memory.

Political rational behind sibling marriage in ancient Egypt.

OpenAI expands lobbying team to influence regulation.

Fifty late bloomers.

Exposure to poor people weakens support for redistribution among the rich.

Most blind mathematicians work in geometry and topology.

How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia is powering the AI revolution.

The Irish logarithm.

Should you cut your loses early, and let your profits run?

Lessons from ‘The Years of Lyndon Johnson’ by Robert Caro.

Bill Gates has perfected managerial philanthropy.

Hayek and Schmitt on the ‘depoliticization’ of the economy.

Life of Qian Xuesen.

An introduction to current theories of consciousness.

World’s oldest tree reveals the largest solar storm in history.