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'He's Arguing With A Bin': Nigel Farage Mocked As Clacton By-Election Race Begins

'He's Arguing With A Bin': Nigel Farage Mocked As Clacton By-Election Race Begins

Published by Sam Flores

Farage and Binface Nigel Farage has been mocked as it was confirmed that his head-to-head fight with Count Binface in the Clacton by-election will definitely happen. The Reform UK leader dramatically quit as the constituency’s MP amid mounting scrutiny over his personal finances. Parliament’s standards commissioner is investigating a £5 million gift he received from a Thailand-based crypto billionaire shortly before he became an MP. The sleaze watchdog could also probe financial support Farage received from convicted fraudster George Cottrell and did not declare. Farage said he wanted the by-election to be a “people versus the establishment” contest. But his move backfired after Labour, the Tories, Lib Dems and Greens all said they would not put up candidates. It means Farage’s only rival so far is Count Binface, whose policies include a promise to build one affordable home and nationalising Adele. Under arcane Commons rules, chancellor Rachel Reeves had to appoint Farage to the ceremonial role of Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead in order for the by-election to go ahead. In a …

Where Measurement Ends, Need Begins

Where Measurement Ends, Need Begins

Published by Jenni Sidey

This post was originally published in Kronika: Filozofski magazin as “Gdje prestaje mjerenje, počinje potreba.” It has been translated by the author and reproduced here with the permission of Kronika. I’m certain you’ve come across the phrases “penny for your thoughts” and “food for thought” at some point in your life. Perhaps you’ve even used them. If so, with the first you politely asked someone what was on their mind. With the second, you signaled the value of an idea (or of some content that prompted you to think more deeply, or think at all) whether you received it or, better yet, produced it yourself, perhaps giving others a reason to do the same. I love those phrases. They serve well as a frame for something that preoccupies many people in academia, perhaps without their even realizing it; and that is the phenomenon of obsolescence. Not the legal kind—the statute of limitations, the expired claim, the debt that can no longer be collected—but the kind that describes a particular human wear-and-tear within a system. The academic system, specifically. I …

Construction begins on £750m UK supercomputer

Construction begins on £750m UK supercomputer

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Construction has officially started on the site that will house the UK’s most powerful UK supercomputer, marking a significant step forward in the country’s research and innovation ambitions. Backed by up to £750m in UK Government funding, the next national supercomputer will be owned by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and hosted at the University of Edinburgh. The new UK supercomputer will provide researchers with dramatically increased computing power, enabling faster and more detailed simulations across fields such as aerospace engineering, climate science, and cancer drug discovery. The system is expected to be around 50 times more powerful than the UK’s current national supercomputer, ARCHER2, transforming the scale and speed of scientific research. Construction of the purpose-built facility is now underway, with experts describing the project as a milestone for UK science. Once operational, the machine is expected to strengthen the country’s global position in high-performance computing while supporting economic growth through research, industrial innovation and technological development. Garth Wells, Deputy Executive Chair, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council at UKRI, explained: “The commencement of …

The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent

The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent

Published by Daniella Wilson

I. The Boneyard Through the heat haze, airplane tails rose from the desert. As I steered off the interstate toward Pinal Airpark, in Marana, Arizona, I got my first view of a corpse in full: a stark-white Boeing 747, its wings sheared off, its passenger doors open to the dust and wind, a rickety set of airstairs inviting no one aboard. The plane was a memory, a ruin, but its swooping, humped nose was still striking—a visage that signaled the freedom of movement in the Jet Age. Explore the July 2026 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More I was arriving at this desolate site north of Tucson, where airplanes go to die, to mourn the 747, the original jumbo jet—a.k.a. the Whale, the Longreach, the Sky Cruiser, the Mother of All Airliners, the Queen of the Skies. For 50 years, the aircraft was the principal host of Important Journeys: a young student’s trip to study abroad in Paris, a first-generation American’s pilgrimage to their ancestral …

The U.S. fought the flesh-eating screw worm for decades. Now it begins again.

The U.S. fought the flesh-eating screw worm for decades. Now it begins again.

Published by Sam Flores

The United States spent more than half a century and hundreds of millions of dollars driving the flesh-eating New World screwworm as far from its borders as possible. Now, it’s back. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The species can eat the tissue of any warm-blooded animal, but it’s a particular threat to livestock and is often fatal for cattle. Some environmentally minded bioethicists have openly debated whether it would be moral to deliberately drive the screwworm into extinction. “There are some species that it’s worth considering wiping out altogether and I do think the screwworm is one,” said Gregory Kaebnick, a senior research scholar at the Hastings Center for Bioethics. The Agriculture Department announced Wednesday that the New World screwworm had been found in a calf in Texas — the first detection in U.S. cattle during a natural incursion since 1982. The agency reported a second case Friday. It was discovered about 6 miles from the first infection. The discovery represents a worrisome comeback for …

Hurricane season begins, with first below-average forecast in a decade

Hurricane season begins, with first below-average forecast in a decade

Published by Sam Flores

Hurricane season in the Atlantic kicked off Monday, and, for the first time in more than a decade, forecasters expect it to be relatively slow. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The below-average forecast is driven by the expectation that a strong El Niño pattern will develop, which is associated with less hurricane formation in the Atlantic. The opposite is true in the Pacific, however, which should have an active season. Most hurricanes that make landfall in the U.S. form in the Atlantic, where forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict the year will have just three to six hurricanes (storms are considered hurricanes once winds reach 74 mph) and between eight and 14 named tropical storms. The forecast does not predict whether storms will make landfall, however. “It just takes one,” Ken Graham, director of the National Weather Service, said at a news conference last month about the agency’s predictions. He noted that one of the costliest hurricanes of all time, Andrew in …

LG’s 39-Inch Ultrawide 5K2K OLED Display Officially Begins Shipping Next Week

LG’s 39-Inch Ultrawide 5K2K OLED Display Officially Begins Shipping Next Week

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Back at CES in January, LG unveiled its UltraGear evo GX9 (39GX950B) display, which it claims is the world’s first 39-inch ultrawide 5K2K OLED gaming monitor, offering a large curved canvas in the increasingly popular 21:9 aspect ratio with the added benefit of OLED technology for enhanced contrast with true blacks, standard refresh rates of up to 165Hz, and more. While LG began taking pre-orders for the UltraGear evo GX9 last month and a few early orders have already trickled out through various channels, LG says that the official kickoff of order shipments starts next week. LG touts the gaming prowess of the UltraGear evo GX9, but its specs mean it can deliver a premium experience across a variety of use cases, from productivity to media consumption and more. OLED technology delivers a contrast ratio of 1,850,000:1 across the ultrawide display’s 5,120 x 2,160 resolution. At a large 39-inch display size with a 1500R curve, this translates to a density of 143 pixels per inch, which is solid but not enough for true retina-level quality. …

Hantavirus-Plagued Cruise Ship Begins Evacuations

Hantavirus-Plagued Cruise Ship Begins Evacuations

Published by Jenni Sidey

Early Sunday morning, the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius, anchored off Spain’s Canary Islands, began evacuating passengers after a deadly hantavirus outbreak triggered a multinational public health response and put global health authorities on red alert. “The docking took place at 6:30 a.m. and has been a success in spite of all the adversities,” Health Minister Mónica García said in a statement quoted by Bloomberg News. Health officials have found that “all passengers are asymptomatic,” García added. The U.S. government is evacuating American passengers from a cruise ship tied to a deadly hantavirus outbreak. A CDC team is currently in the Canary Islands assessing potential exposure and monitoring needs. Passengers will be flown back to the U.S. on a medical repatriation… pic.twitter.com/CSrpbpMXLR — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 10, 2026 Ship-tracking data show that the Hondius was anchored in Granadilla Port, Tenerife, and has since docked. Last week, the World Health Organization identified eight hantavirus cases linked to the cruise ship: five suspected and three confirmed by laboratory testing. This includes three deaths. There were 149 passengers …

London gets closer to its first robotaxi service as Waymo begins testing

London gets closer to its first robotaxi service as Waymo begins testing

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Waymo has started testing its autonomous vehicles on public roads in London as it prepares to launch a commercial robotaxi service in the city this year. The Alphabet-owned company has been working toward this moment for months. Waymo announced in October it planned to begin driving on London’s public roads. Waymo employees initially drove the vehicles manually to map the city before starting autonomous testing. For now, a fleet of about 100 all-electric Jaguar I-Pace equipped with Waymo’s self-driving system have a human safety operator behind the wheel. Waymo is testing its vehicles across a 100-square-mile area of the city, according to the company. The government must first finalize its trial program regulations before we can operate fully autonomously. We will work closely with regulators to ensure that our service reaches as many Londoners as possible. “Core driving AI generalizing very well,” Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov wrote in a LinkedIn post announcing the testing. “Autonomous testing now underway with specialists behind the wheel as we master local nuances and validate performance on UK roads — …