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This exclusive video shot by Dezeen features some of the best installations featured at this year's Glastonbury festival, including outlandish stages and a mushroom mycelium pavilion. Glastonbury represents a huge exercise in production design and temporary architecture structures from across different disciplines, with over 100 stages, installations and sculptures for visitors to discover.   View

Despite claims to the contrary, the Roberts Court continues to advance a rightwing policy agenda

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Former Arizona Governor Doug Ducey didn't need to keep the details of Donald Trump's 2020 call to cancel out Joe Biden's win a secret.

Lobbyists back bills to keep blue flames on hobs as policymakers pursue climate measures

A new European Court of Auditors report shows the risks of relying only on electric vehicles for the future of road transport. As EU Biofuels Chain members write, Europe needs to be more open to a range of technologies.

Day tickets for the final day of the EuroHockey Championships in Mönchengladbach in August have sold out with a number of other dates close to that stage with six weeks […]

El técnico repasa la actualidad futbolística: Mbappé, Gündogan. Kessie, bajas...  Leer

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"Erica Marsh" was obviously not real, but MAGA Twitter just can't quit their addiction to disinformation

Via Matt Yglesias' blog Slow Boring, this piece by Timothy B. Lee on the translation employment market: 

ORLANDO, FL - FEBRUARY 9: Isiah Thomas #11 of the Detroit Pistons and Karl Malone #32 of the Utah Jazz talk before the 1992 NBA All-Star Game on February 9, 1992 at the Orlando Arena in Orlando, Florida. | Photo by Jon Soohoo/NBAE via Getty Images

And a good bit of the NBA was happy he did.

Currently, the U.S. Supreme Court sits nine justices, three of whom were appointed by former President Donald Trump. The Onion asked politicians why they oppose President Biden expanding the court and appointing more justices of his own, and this is what they said.

Justice Department officials and Hunter Biden’s attorneys are ramping up their pushback against Republican claims the president’s son received preferential treatment during the investigation into his failure to pay taxes.

To solve the “crisis” in artificial intelligence, AI beings must say, “I am me.”

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How many fatalities will it take to get officials to take the problem seriously?

Let’s take a look at the Carolina Panthers 2023 futures odds, including best bets for the Panthers and Bryce Young betting odds.

I spent the end of May and the beginning of June in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, first as a guest of the Palestine Festival of Literature, and then documenting daily life in my sketchbook. It had been eight years since my last trip to Palestine, and on the face of it, everything […]

The Republican Party just can’t make up its mind about the $1.5 trillion budget deficit.

Ron DeSantis’s recent campaign ad deservedly got attention for being both maniacally anti-LGBTQ and, as Pete Buttigieg deftly observed, undeniably homoerotic. It includes film clips of Brad Pitt as the ancient Greek hero Achilles, “who, in the Iliad,” my colleague Prem Thakker observed on Monday, “has been interpreted to have gone on a vengeful rampage after the death of his gay lover, Patroclus.” Indeed, one wonders whether the Yale- and Harvard-educated DeSantis or his campaign team know the... Читать дальше...

Last week, the U.S. government tiptoed a little closer to the world of science fiction. In a 44-page report it seemed at pains to say was not its own idea, the White House laid out a five-year research plan to explore the development and eventual deployment of solar radiation management, or SRM, technology—the idea of blocking out the sun to slow down climate change.

Nearly two decades after his death—and more than 30 years after his presidency—Ronald Reagan still plays a prominent role in the pageant of American politics: He is the hallowed cipher for a “strong” foreign policy. Politicians can invoke the fortieth president’s name to grant an imprimatur of “greatness” to current policy positions, even if they carry only a tenuous connection to the views of the man himself. Though Donald Trump’s ascendancy may have somewhat diminished Reagan’s hold on the Republican Party... Читать дальше...

Summer is getting too hot and dangerous, killing the childhood of our imaginations.

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. A few weeks ago, I found myself in a room where fluorescent lights reflected off the stainless steel tanks lining the walls. The setup reminded me of an exceedingly high-tech craft brewery. …