They’ll be saying the same about climate change one day soon

Allied propaganda map depicting what would happen to North America if the Central Powers won World War I, 1916.

Russia obtained at least one-third of its foreign-sourced critical battlefield components, valued at $7.3bn, from companies based in the US and its allies last year ft.com/content/96c4f3…

This morning an electronic billboard on my way to work is displaying this Putin quote: “Russia’s borders do not end anywhere.”

Lovely review of @josephinequinn's brilliant book How the World Made the West by the great Tristram Hunt How the World Made the West — a scuttling of civilisational myths - on.ft.com/3ThBBYC via Financial Times

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci is 526 years old, and it's had a rough history. Monks used to eat breakfast next to it, Napoleon's soldiers turned the room into a stable, and it was bombed during WWII. And somebody once added a new door that destroyed the feet of Jesus...

Ahoy! And welcome to me voyage of the damned.

Ecuador is no stranger to giving fugitives refuge in its embassies - Assange holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

Fentanyl Kills Mexico's Opium Trade I went to the mountains of Guerrero to see how farmers of poppy - the raw ingredient for heroin- have adapted to the shift to synthetics. They're now lucky to get 4,000 pesos ($250) for a kilo of gum and many have left. crashoutmedia.com/p/fentanyl-kil…

"The West may have hoped to end the war on terrorism. But the terrorists are still at war." - This is good by The Economist, the trajectory of jihadist activity right now is alarming -- but few are paying attention, or want to know. economist.com/international/…

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has not gone at all to plan. Russia's incurred heavy losses. Yet today, while exhibiting Western military hardware captured in the war, Moscow claimed “[Russia’s] victory is inevitable.” I remember a Soviet poster that declared: “The

This is Uruk, as it may have looked in the IV millenium BCE and now. Located in modern-day Iraq, Uruk was one of the first cities in the world. It emerged in the late 4th millennium BCE as a major center of trade, commerce, and culture. At its peak, Uruk was home to over 50,000

Raven uses a tool to get a bigger stick to reach food

The war in Ukraine has been an “accelerator” for experimentation with AI, says Trent Maul of America’s Defence Intelligence Agency. Still, sceptics suggest there are human elements of intelligence that AI cannot replicate econ.st/4eOHrcI 👇

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Tier building Robot, ready for autonomous space building.

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