Welcome to the age of Killer Robots
Stanley Kubrick's cult classic 2001: A Space Odyssey prophetically warned of autonomous robots through the unsettling computer system HAL 9000....
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What if Yuri Gagarin had never gone to space?
12 April marks 65 years since Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, became the first human to voyage into outer space. His...
You are what you eat: What a rise in skinny culture reveals about the Western political climate
What has become increasingly more noticeable in the media is the frequency of celebrities and influencers flaunting how skinny they...
Micro-Joys: Tiny Things That Stabilise You
What is a micro-joy? A micro-joy is a small, sometimes mundane moment or action that brings a little extra light...
Tête de Woe: The lamentable decline in critical eating
‘Foodie-culture’ is everywhere. In the digital age anyone with a phone can self-profess their admission to the ‘influencer’ club, glibly...
Musings on the growth of American radical right-wing political culture
When Trump won in 2016 many commentators, politicians and ordinary people thought that America was experiencing its peak populist moment,...
Three years of chaos in the Middle East
When I started my degree in Middle Eastern Studies, the region seemed to be relatively calm, the 2010s had been...
What it means to speak like a Mutt
"You don't have a typical American accent" "What's a 'typical American accent then?" "Something traceable, I guess. Yours is kind...
Climate change isn’t going away – you’re not the reason why
Much discourse surrounding the climate emergency revolves around carbon footprints and the individual doing their bit to reduce the overwhelming...
Consent or Pay: Is privacy now a premium?
Meta introduced a model across its social media platforms in the European Union (EU) and the UK: users must either...