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Haruki Murakami and the challenge of translating Japanese’s many words for “I”

Haruki Murakami’s most recent novel, The City and its Uncertain Walls, revolves around two parallel stories, one focusing on a 17-year-old boy, the other on a 45-year-old man. Readers of the translated English version will gradually become aware of the two worlds, as each first-person narrator establishes his respective setting…

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Jaguar Type 00: the controversial pink car is more in step with the brand’s history than detractors think

At first glance, Jaguar’s new electric Type 00 concept car is surprising, shocking or perhaps even jarring to some. This is largely due to its bright pink colour (it also comes in blue).

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Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet at the Tate offers a glimpse into the future past

There’s a sense of excitement around Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet, now open at the Tate Modern, for a number of reasons. First, it’s one of the first major exhibitions to place the current hype surrounding generative artificial intelligence within a historical context. Second, it addresses the…

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King Charles is changing his diet to keep his cancer at bay – here’s what the evidence says

King Charles’s decision to cut red meat from his diet following his cancer treatment has sparked a frenzy of interest in the potential effect of what we eat on cancer outcomes, and how well people do after they’re diagnosed.

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Swedish academics suffer widespread threat and harassment – most of it from their own colleagues and students

Last week, Ally Louks (now Dr. Louks), an academic at the University of Cambridge, posted a picture of herself on the social media site X with her fresh PhD thesis titled “Olfactory Ethics: The politics of smell in modern and contemporary prose”. The post received a surprising amount of attention…

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Arctic has changed dramatically in just a couple of decades – 2024 report card shows worrying trends in snow, ice, wildfire and more

The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, disconnected from daily life if you aren’t one of the 4 million people who live there. Yet, the changes underway in the Arctic as temperatures rise can profoundly affect lives around the world.

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Reconciling technology with humanism: the future of education in the age of generative AI

In the age of generative AI, we face a major challenge: the growing gap between technological advancements and a humanistic understanding of education. This divide threatens our ability to use AI tools wisely and our capacity to foresee their societal impact. Generative AI is profoundly shaping our everyday educational experiences…

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Kenya’s wailing warriors: how women in Pentecostal churches claim their power

As a scholar and researcher of Pentecostalism, I attended a monthly church gathering, known as Daughters of Zion, in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi where women around me were praying loudly and with passion. Usually there are no men present in the gathering, except for the tech team and guest…

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Maternity care in Ghana is meant to be free, but it’s not – and many can’t afford it

Globally, over a quarter of a million women a year die during pregnancy or childbirth. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for about 70% of these deaths.

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Universities must teach students what freedom is – a South African course is trying to do just that

A typical student wants a university degree as a ticket to a salary. For this young person, education is a journey towards “having”. And the way to complete the journey is mainly to remember, repeat or reproduce what the teacher says and does.

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New set of human rights principles aims to end displacement and abuse of Indigenous people through ‘fortress conservation’

For more than a century, conservationists have worked to preserve natural ecosystems by creating national parks and protected areas. Today the Earth faces a global biodiversity crisis, with more than 1 million species at risk of extinction. This makes it even more important to conserve places where at-risk species can…

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Polarization, brain rot and brat – the 2024 words of the year point to the power, perils and ephemeral nature of digital life

Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s meant to encapsulate the zeitgeist of the prior year.

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Stadiums don’t have to be a drain on taxpayer dollars − 4 lessons from St. Louis

The world of professional sports is flush with cash, thanks to multibillion-dollar TV deals, sponsorships and ticket sales. Yet some of the biggest investments in major franchises come from taxpayers. Between 1970 and 2020, state and local governments spent US$33 billion in public funds on sports arenas, including nearly $20…

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Pearl Young, the first woman to work in a technical role at NASA, overcame barriers and ‘raised hell’ − her legacy continues today

Thirteen years before any other woman joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics – or the NACA, NASA’s predecessor – in a technical role, a young lab assistant named Pearl Young was making waves in the agency. Her legacy as an outspoken and persistent advocate for herself and her team…

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Albania-Italy: migration deals risk becoming a requirement for EU membership

In April, the European parliament passed its pact on migration and asylum, a package of laws designed to overhaul the EU’s policies on migration and borders. But the issue of how to deal with “irregular” migrants – people who enter countries without proper visas or documentation – is far from…

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When AI goes shopping: AI agents promise to lighten your purchasing load − if they can earn your trust

Online shopping often involves endless options and fleeting discounts. A single search for running shoes can yield hundreds of results across multiple platforms, each promising the “best deal.” The holiday season brings excitement, but it also brings a blend of decision fatigue and logistical nightmares.

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Links between gender stereotypes and American patriotism date from the Cold War − but weren’t true then either

In 1959, at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, in front of a model American kitchen full of appliances, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sparred over the advantages of the two countries’ economic systems. Nixon pointed to the dishwasher on display: “In America,…

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I’m a scholar of white supremacy who’s visiting all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed in recent years − here’s why Richmond gets it right

In a symbolic rebuke of the American South’s racist history, an old Confederate monument now has a meaningful new life, four years after it was toppled in Virginia.

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Hypnosis is not just a parlor trick or TV act − science shows it helps with anxiety, depression, pain, PTSD and sleep disorders

We’ve all seen it, typically on television or on stage: A hypnotist selects a few members from the audience, and with what seems to be little more than a steely stare or a few choice words, they’re suddenly “under the spell.” Depending on what the hypnotist suggests, the participants laugh,…

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Subsidised community restaurants could help tackle the UK’s broken food system – here’s how

The UK’s food system is fundamentally broken. As a researcher of the global agricultural system, I believe drastic, bold change is needed – and that community restaurants are an important model to consider.

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Turkey’s silencing of an independent radio station highlights the country’s escalating assault on media freedom

Anyone who advocates for justice in Turkey is faced with the state’s relentless crackdown on freedom. In the past few months alone, several pro-Kurdish elected mayors have been removed from their posts, and a four-day film festival in Istanbul was cancelled in protest at a ban on showing Queer, a…

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Glen Coe: fresh archaeological discoveries bring new insights into lives of massacred MacDonald clan

Archaeology excels in giving insights into the everyday lives of people in the past. It is only very occasionally that we get those spine-tingling moments when we can connect the artefacts and structures we excavate to very specific people and events – such as the massacre of Glen Coe.

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What Dolph Lundgren’s journey from terminal diagnosis to ‘cancer free’ can tell us about cancer care

In a heartening turn of events, action movie star Dolph Lundgren recently announced that he is “finally cancer free” after a gruelling battle with the disease.

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‘News influencers’ are racking up billions of views – and not checking their facts

The way many people get their news today would be unrecognisable to broadsheet devotees of decades past. You may read email newsletters, scroll headlines on social media, or go directly to the BBC’s own TikTok account to find out what’s happening in the world.

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Large language models: how the AI behind the likes of ChatGPT actually works

The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new technological era. And they may indeed have significant impacts on how we live and work in future.

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