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How Victorian Britain got used to moving very fast
Turner and Brunel on locomotives, speed and time
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Baby Jesus, weird shrunken professor
Why did medieval artists give the Christ Child the face and body of a little old man who’s read too much Augustine?
December 17, 2025
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Are we living in a Usurocracy?
How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash
July 24, 2025
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Hippies, Digital Gods and imaginary futures
Since the Cold War, America has been in an ideological battle to own the future, argues London academic Richard Barbrook. Is this the key to understanding Donald Trump and his tech-bros?
June 06, 2025
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Forged Parfait vs the farmers
In Singapore you can enjoy a delicious starter made from lab-cultivated quail cells. Is this the future of meat? And why might the people of Florida lose out?
March 26, 2025
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