1+ hour, 21+ min ago  (44+ words) The Spectator Australia Now that we've had air conditioning fitted I'm less worried about climate change.' Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below....

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (566+ words) Dejan Hinic and Gabri'l Moens In 1791, Jeremy Bentham described in his book Panopticon: The Inspection House how a panopticon could allow a single guard to observe all prison inmates, remaining invisible to them. Since then, the surveillance industry has seen…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (363+ words) The Spectator Australia Is air conditioning actually bad for the planet? The Met Office has extended the heat warning as the heatwave continues into its fourth day " and yesterday saw a new record temperature for June, with a high of…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (149+ words) Particular Books, pp. 320, 25 Korsgaard must stitch her time-consuming special interest into the "crazy patchwork quilt" of a multitasking mother"s life. Her husband and three boys look on, wry, baffled and sweetly accepting of her apparent midlife crisis. The transformation…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (185+ words) " L. C. P. , London SW1 A. University students may soon have to write essays under human supervision. By the same token, you might tell suspect writers that they must in future look you in the eye as they read their submission aloud over Zoom, with…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (714+ words) For the first time, the United States government has switched off frontier artificial intelligence and forced the world to go without it. Two of the most capable AI systems ever built, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, went dark last week....

2+ week, 20+ hour ago  (805+ words) The past two decades have seen an explosion in climate anxiety among children, defined as the chronic fear of environmental doom from the supposed catastrophic impact of climate change. Some organisations with links to climate investment and climate technology fund…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (696+ words) The Spectator Australia Will the Hinkley C nuclear power station ever open? It was 20 years ago last month that the then Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that nuclear power was "back on agenda with a vengeance. His white paper proposed…...

3+ week, 24+ min ago  (627+ words) The Spectator Australia Symbol of wisdom or harbinger of death " the owl preserves its mystery The many legends of humans and gods taking owl form continue to give the ghostly nocturnal predator an indefinable allure William Collins, pp. 256, 20 As the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (334+ words) If you have been online in the last couple of years, you have probably been bombarded with advertisements, articles, over-enthusiastic "Linked Influencers, etc, peddling that AI is going to "take your job or "replace lawyers, etc. To be honest, Im…...