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Cacti are surprisingly fragile – and five other intriguing facts about these spiky wonders

Few plant families are as iconic as the resilient, spiky cactus, thriving in the driest deserts and as well as decorating our offices and homes. Their success in both environments comes down to extreme adaptations for surviving with little water – whether braving the brutal sun or enduring weeks of…

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Why you should swap the crowded French Riviera for Marseille’s lesser-known shores

Nice local Chloe Braithwaite finds respite from the summer crowds of the Cote d'Azur in the sleepy towns that surround France’s oldest city

The Independent UK

The Ultimate Guide To 50 Sci-Fi Essentials Under $25 On Amazon

Epic adventures, mind-bending tales, and futuristic thrills, all perfectly priced for your next journey.

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Meet the family leading the psychedelic revolution

Drug campaigner Amanda Feilding has been at the forefront of psychedelic science for half a century. Now her sons are joining the firm. Will the Beckley research empire change the way we treat mental ill health asks Alexandra Jones

Evening Standard

Was going to space a good idea?

In 1963, six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: “Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?” The respondents were philosopher Hannah Arendt, writer Aldous Huxley, theologian Paul Tillich, nuclear scientist Harrison…

The Conversation

‘He was treated like a holy figure’: why Captain Beefheart quit music for the easel

He was a musical maverick whose Trout Mask Replica still sticks out on best-of lists, but when he gave up rock to paint, his art was dismissed as doodles. Now his remarkable work is getting its due

The Guardian - UK

Captain America 4 to be released under new title

Fans were quick to notice a change to the name of the forthcoming Marvel film

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Ninety years on, what can we learn from reading Evelyn Waugh's troubling satire Black Mischief?

Ninety years ago, in October 1932, the English satirist Evelyn Waugh published his third novel Black Mischief. He’d had a hit two years prior with Vile Bodies, a novel that made famous (even as it mocked) the slang and habits of the aristocratic Bright Young Things and propelled Waugh to…

The Conversation

Cold comfort: get ready to shiver watching a World Cup you helped to pay for

From the Premier League to the Qatar World Cup, football is inextricably linked to the oil industry with implications for all

The Guardian - UK

Brainwashed by Daniel Pick review – do great minds really think alike?

From The Simpsons to QAnon via The Stepford Wives, the psychoanalyst’s absorbing study of mind control is part media studies, part political history

The Guardian - UK

Why digital newsrooms should do ‘less but better’ to prosper

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University just released its annual report on the state of the news industry – and it makes for depressing reading. The Digital News Report 2022, informed by data from 46 markets, concludes that interest and trust in the news is…

Newslaundry

Portrait of famed writer DH Lawrence to be bought by Nottingham City Council and put on display

'The portrait has been offered for sale to Nottingham by a private collector in the USA'

Nottingham Post

Whether in war-torn Ukraine, Laos or Spain, kids have felt compelled to pick up crayons and put their experiences to paper

“They still draw pictures!”

The Conversation

The book that changed me: falling for Eve Babitz's Sex and Rage

In this series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking.

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Brave New World by Fred Fordham review – brilliant Huxley reboot

This rip-roaring graphic retelling of the Aldous Huxley classic brings to mind Fritz Lang, Spielberg and vintage comics

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