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Benjamin talks to Krishnan about 'that' Ted talk, why he thinks we need a new language and why he thinks universal collaboration is of utmost importance.

After New York City experienced record rainfall this summer, my basement flooded. Water destroyed boxes of books and manuscripts, sitting several inches deep in a plastic crate full of photographs. I

NOT too many tears for Hatt Mancock in this parish, I expect. But in another part of your body politic, surely you felt a twinge of anxiety? Does the idea of your every office behaviour being watched by an Orwellian camera on the ceiling not discomfit you, even a little? At the moment of writing, this story – a combination of hands-everywhere farce and deep-state machinations – was sprawling in all directions. Geopolitical fingers are being pointed: both at the US security firm Emcor, and the Chinese camera manufacturer Hikvision, each involved in servicing the camera device. (But w...

The Peter Westbrook Foundation Qualifies Four to Tokyo Olympics PWF Members Earn Titles at North American Cup News provided by Share this article Share this article RICHMOND, Va., May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Peter Westbrook Foundation is excited to announce that it has officially qualified four members of its program to the 2021 Olympic Team. Daryl Homer, Khalil Thompson, Curtis McDowald and Yeisser Ramirez have all been officially named to represent the United States this summer on the event's biggest stage in Tokyo, Japan. The Peter Westbrook Foundation Qualifies Four to Tokyo Olympi...

Illustration by Ryan Garcia. President Trump has left the building. In his final days, in one of the most symbolic moments of his short period in the White House, after his supporters had haphazardly stormed the Capitol Building on January 6, the inveterate (ab)user of social media was banned from, first, Facebook and then his favourite platform, Twitter. For the farthest right in North America, digital platforms’ decision to ban Trump represented the fulfilment of fears of “socialist” censorship; everyone else saw the enormous drop in the spread of misinformation and hate speech across...