The forgotten punk pioneer

Everybody is looking for a shortcut, but not every shortcut is smart. These AI writing fails from Microsoft show how short-sighted it is to replace writers with machines."

From the album All Things in Time - 1976

The Spider’s Web: Britain's Second Empire, is shows how Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power. At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth may be hidden in British offshore jurisdictions and Britain and its offshore jurisdictions are the largest global players in the world of international finance. How did this come about, and what impact does it have on the world today?

Tuatara conservation has been founded on understanding the biology of sex determination, disease ecology and the restoration of populations. In this lecture Professor Nicky Nelson will present research case studies into the biology of tuatara, showing how they have supported …

The moose was likely getting scared.

The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

The outspoken magician/comedian/writer talks to Cracked about leaving behind Libertarianism, why he’s worried about the future and how Trump is even worse than you think

The actor and environmentalist considered hiring a ghostwriter for help with his memoir, then realized as he was writing things down, “This is too much fun.”

Lorin Clarke’s account of growing up with her famous father is a loving, often funny portrait.