No one likes ticks – least of all “Tick Fever” director Sebastian Granskog. “Every Finn has learned to live in fear of ticks since the summers of their childhood. It’s a tiny insect that latches onto your body, breaks through your skin, starts drinking your blood and grows bigger as it takes what it wants
Tech leaders like Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk are calling for a slowdown in the development of AI, and investors on Monday appeared to be taking the notion seriously. Stocks linked to the AI boom tumbled as investors processed the implications of frontier labs hitting the brakes. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell as
The art and science of Ernst Haeckel Julia Voss and Rainer Willmann Taschen (2026) To immerse yourself in the world of naturalist Ernst Haeckel is to fall into a kaleidoscope of vibrant sea slugs, coiled octopuses, looping larvae and bulbous bodies. These tantalizing creatures float and writhe before your eyes, mesmerizing with their curious contortion.
Force of nature: understanding the deepest logic of evolution and putting it into practice Owen D. Jones W. W. Norton (2026) From antimicrobial resistance and vaccines to drug design and even policymaking, evolution is fundamental to many aspects of our lives. However, Darwinian thinking is too often neglected. In Force of natureBiologist and jurist Owen
John Bennett: Little by little it became clear that the World Cup was capturing the imagination in New York. I went to a soccer fan event in Harlem in the first week of the tournament and it was full of people who lived in the US but were originally from one of the World Cup
Prince William was asked about football culture and spoke about the strange appeal of the ups and downs of being a fan. His own support for Aston Villa became even more intense when the team was relegated, he said. “I think it sounds very strange, but I got into football more than ever when we
