• Cineplex in Thailand explores Europe’s royals with docs from Harbour Rights

    Pay TV channel Cineplex in Thailand has acquired a 30-hour package of programming from Hong Kong-based Harbour Rights, including royal-themed docs Charles III: Making a Monarch and Power Couples. Charl

  • IKEA furniture destroys some of Europe’s last remaining ancient forests

    Furniture manufacturers producing for IKEA are sourcing wood from some of Europe’s last remaining old-growth forests in the Romanian Carpathians, including in Natura 2000 protected areas, new report finds.

  • This Double-decker Bus Turned Mobile Hostel Is The Coolest Way To Explore Europe

    Without any experience with DIY or construction, Saskia van Leeuwen converted a double-decker bus into a mobile hostel with her sister and best friend.The trio successfully created "La Karavana", a thriving hostel business to merge their passions for entrepreneurship, adventure and travelling.Having never worked alongside her twin sister, van Leeuwen said she "had mixed feelings" about their computability in the workplace and was concerned with how they were "always compared as twin...

  • Britain's forgotten sunken lands: Incredible interactive map reveals the ancient islands swallowed by the sea

    These British settlements are far from mythical - in fact, the historical records and physical evidence offer proof that they definitely existed.

  • Civil Aviation Ministry talks of differentiated regulation of drones for civil and defence use

    Ministry Secretary Vumlunmang Vualnam talked about a separate set of guidelines for drone usage based on specific use cases like civil and public uses, defence and law enforcement uses

  • Civil War

    From filmmaker Alex Garland comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.

  • Exploring the Forests of the Sea

    This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Maggie Reddy was growing up on the eastern coast of South Africa in the 1990s, the

  • Digging into career exploration

    Photos and video from an event aimed at giving high schoolers hands-on experience

  • Civil LARP: The journalists are at it again

    Alex Garland’s Civil War is not just a story told from the point of view of journalists, which would be taxing enough. It’s a movie about journalism, which is a hilariously narrow and tedious preoccupation for a movie that’s nominally concerned with present-day civil conflict. But it’s ironically very fitting: reporters spent four years playacting as valiant rebel war correspondents […]

  • Property and Debt in Ancient Rome

    Traditional societies usually had restrictions to prevent self-support land from being alienated outside of the family or clan. By holding that the essence of private property is its ability to be sold or forfeited irreversibly, Roman law removed the archaic checks to foreclosure that prevented property from being concentrated in the hands of the few. This Roman concept of property is essentially creditor-oriented, and quickly became predatory. More

  • Civil War Should Make You Angry

    There's been a lot of discourse around the film, and Alex Garland's Civil War is a movie that should make you angry.

  • Exploring why we photograph animals – in pictures

    A new collection of wildlife photography aims to help understand why people have photographed animals at different points in history and what it means in the present. Huw Lewis-Jones explores the animal in photography through the work of more than 100 photographers in Why We Photograph Animals, supporting the images with thematic essays to provide historical contextPhotography on display at the Cheltenham science festival 4-9 June 2024 Continue reading