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Books of the Week: Head Hand Heart, Inside Story: A Novel, V2 World War 2

Books of the Week: Head Hand Heart, Inside Story: A Novel, V2

This week’s must-reads include David Goodhart’s “utterly compelling” book on the over-dominance of our society by the highly educated. Martin Amis creates an odd “mash-up” of a novel for what he says will be his last “significant” book and Robert Harris revisits the “secretive world of Second World War mathematicians”.Book of…
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October 2, 2020
The Week Unwrapped podcast: Green China, shameless states and virtual politics Soundcloud

The Week Unwrapped podcast: Green China, shameless states and virtual politics

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––To get six free issues of The Week magazine and a moleskine notebook visit theweek.co.uk/offer and enter promo code: POD25–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In this week’s episode, we discuss:Green ChinaChina has shocked observers by committing to go carbon neutral…
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October 2, 2020
Can China go net-zero? Two charts show just how ambitious Xi Jinping’s goal is Xi Jinping

Can China go net-zero? Two charts show just how ambitious Xi Jinping’s goal is

This story has been updated. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent announcement that his country aims to reach peak carbon emissions before 2030 and become carbon-neutral by 2060 has raised a lot of questions: Was it a serious commitment, or a geopolitical maneuver meant to outshine President Trump? Does it exempt…
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October 2, 2020
Twitter wants to tackle its biased image cropping problem by giving you control instead Barack Obama

Twitter wants to tackle its biased image cropping problem by giving you control instead

Last month, a bunch of users tweeted about how Twitter‘s image cropping algorithm seems to have a bias towards fair-skinned people. When users posted uncropped images containing both light and dark-skinned people, the social network’s algorithm often showed the light-skinned person in the preview. Trying a horrible experiment… Which will…
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October 2, 2020