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History and place
The long view, and the ground it stands on. Briefs on history, colonial afterlives, regions outside the usual frame, science and climate.
Building is not the same as proving
SpudCell can divide, according to Professor Dave Explains’ episode description, but the programme still asks whether the synthetic cell is alive.
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Ownership is not cultural continuity
Amazon now gets to decide who plays Bond and how the series runs, according to The Global Story’s description.
Who can contest the record
South Africa’s apartheid state charged Nelson Mandela with offences including treason, incitement and sabotage, placing political resistance inside proceedings controlled by the s…
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AI expansion tests shared capacity
Nano Banana permits 32,768 input tokens, according to Max Woolf, who proposes using the full allowance.
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