Two Hundred Eyes
The scale of death and destruction caused by last week’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria is unthinkably awful, so here are some links about just one location. The earthquake has wiped out Antakya, known in ancient times as Antioch. Antakya has been reduced to ruins. Saray Street in Antakya before and after the earthquake. A rescue operation in Antakya. A three-year old who escaped from the rubble is reunited with her father in Antakya.
Wind turbine blades are now fully recyclable. Solar’s journey from lab curiosity to global juggernaut. How Nepal regenerated its forests.
Why are people pretending Covid didn’t happen?
The disinformation team meddling in elections.
Pirates robbed the US of the metric system.
The Statue of Liberty wasn’t about what most people think.
The jazz star who stood up to the HUAC.
Joel Golby brings his column on insane London rental properties to its bitter end.
Scallops have two hundred eyes.
The world’s unexpected fried chicken capital.
CatGPT. How ChatGPT kicked off an arms race. Bing’s chatbot gaslights a user. Cory Doctorow on how copyright won’t solve creators’ AI problem.
The final word on the final series of Happy Valley (and, for good measure, Line of Duty).