These images teach the ‘overview effect’
Overview and the Instagram account @dailyoverview were founded by Benjamin Grant to provide people with a unique perspective and greater awareness of humans’ impact on the planet.
Overview and the Instagram account @dailyoverview were founded by Benjamin Grant to provide people with a unique perspective and greater awareness of humans’ impact on the planet.
Facing a divided Congress, President Biden used his State of the Union speech to emphasize areas where Democrats and Republicans can work together.
Company temporarily restricted New York Post article in 2020 about contents of the abandoned computer of Joe Biden’s son
Diane McBain, who has died aged 81, was a Sixties screen siren who was perhaps best known for appearing alongside Elvis Presley in his 1966 romp Spinout, after playing a glamorous and intrepid socialite in the hit show Surfside 6; she went on to set a fashion trend with her candy pink hairdo as Pinkie Pinkston, a friend of Bruce Wayne in Batman.
Nicola Sturgeon has been hit with an £8,000 bill after the value of her MPs’ pension grew more than tax-free limits allow.
Secret letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I, have been decoded for the first time in nearly 450 years, in a major historical breakthrough.
The increase in electric charging points for cars is making it more difficult for disabled people to move around urban areas, a new report has found.
Britain will dodge a recession this year despite a painful slowdown that will hit the middle classes, a respected think tank has said.
A new blood test for prostate cancer could spare men from needless biopsies and reach accuracy rates of 94 per cent, research suggests.
The Tories will not succeed in bringing NHS waiting lists down before the next general election, analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests.
Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells’s debut, Aftersun, about a father-daughter holiday at a Turkish beach resort in the late 1990s, is the low-budget movie that roared. It’s been nominated for four Baftas, including Best British Film and Leading Actor for her 26-year-old star Paul Mescal (of Normal People fame). And now Mescal has been Oscar-nominated.
One would imagine that BP has had enough of Bernard Looney’s clumsy metaphors. But if it was a “cash machine” before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to borrow Looney’s unfortunate words, then how might the Irishman characterise his employer on current form – “a money-printing service to rival the Royal Mint” perhaps?
The death toll from the devastating series of earthquakes that have hit Turkey and Syria continues to rise. Governments and aid organisations have mobilised their staff and resources, but their efforts are being hampered by the freezing temperatures and the sheer scale of the destruction. Thousands of buildings have been flattened and the World Health Organisation estimates that some 23 million people have been affected in one way or another. They are the worst earthquakes to hit Turkey in decad
Monetary tightening is like pulling a brick across a rough table with a piece of elastic. Central banks tug and tug: nothing happens. They tug again: the brick leaps off the surface into their faces.
After 13 years living in Canada, Neil Farley and his wife Ceri Williams were finally ready to return home to Britain – and in September last year, they completed the purchase of a house in the Yorkshire seaside resort of Hornsea.
‘I honestly don’t even wanna think about it that much because it’s not that important to me,’ Fraser says
In his State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden boasted about his first two years and tested populist re-election themes for the 2024 campaign.
New Zealand police said Wednesday they found more than 3 tons of cocaine floating in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean after it was dropped there by an international drug-smuggling syndicate. New Zealand Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said the cocaine had been dropped at a floating transit point in 81 bales before it was intercepted by a navy ship, which was deployed to the area last week. The ship then made the six-day trip back to New Zealand, where the drugs were being documented and destroyed.
The "news broadcasters" appear stunningly real, but they are AI-generated deepfakes in first-of-their-kind propaganda videos that a research report published Tuesday attributed to Chinese state-aligned actors.The fake anchors -- for a fictious news outlet called Wolf News -- were created by artificial intelligence software and appeared in footage on social media that seemed to promote the interests of the Chinese Communist Party, US-based research firm Graphika said in its report.
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