All posts tagged: Place

Taking the Place of the Stranger: Leibniz and the Ethics of Migration

Taking the Place of the Stranger: Leibniz and the Ethics of Migration

Published by Jenni Sidey

A border looks different depending on which side of it one stands. To a citizen, it may appear as a line of defense: a necessary guarantee of order, security, and political sovereignty. To a migrant, it may look like a wall against hope, a bureaucratic machine that turns fear into paperwork and danger into indefinite delay. The challenge of an ethics of migration lies in this tension between different standpoints. Leibniz did not write a theory of migration in anything like the modern sense. The political world he inhabited was not yet organized around the same forms of border control, citizenship, asylum, and administrative classification that shape present debates. Nevertheless, a short text called “The Place of Others,” included in my recently published three-volume edition of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers 1677–1686 (Oxford University Press, 2026), offers an illuminating way of approaching a central difficulty in contemporary debates about migration, namely: whose standpoint counts? In this text, Leibniz reflects on the practice of imaginatively changing positions with another person, claiming that “the place of others is the …

Jeremy Clarkson reveals extreme measures in place to stop ‘thieves’ at Diddly Squat

Jeremy Clarkson reveals extreme measures in place to stop ‘thieves’ at Diddly Squat

Published by Daniella Wilson

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that he’s installed serious security equipment at Diddly Squat to stop thieves from stealing his diesel tanks. The TV presenter’s farming experience has been well documented on Amazon Prime Video’s Clarkson’s Farm, which began airing in 2021. While the ex Top Gear host bought the 1,000-acre land in 2008, he took over running it seven years ago and has since won two National Television Awards and released five series of the programme. In a new column, Clarkson opened up about some of the situations he stumbles upon on country lanes around his property – revealing that suspicious vehicles can sometimes belong to diesel thieves. Jeremy Clarkson with partner and co-star Lisa Hogan (Getty) “I know all you town people think theft is a problem where you live but you guys don’t know the meaning of the word,” he wrote in The Times. “In the countryside, everything …

Why is the Bahrain Grand Prix taking place in Malaysia today?

Why is the Bahrain Grand Prix taking place in Malaysia today?

Published by Sam Flores

However, there is one notable difference to normal – the race is not actually being held in Bahrain, but rather in Malaysia. It follows on from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku last week, where Mercedes’ George Russell claimed victory and Red Bull duo Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar completed the podium. Before that, young Italian Kimi Antonelli continued to impress with a win in Spain – his eighth race victory of the season – and he comfortably leads the F1 Drivers’ Standings on 302 points with only eight races left to go this term. The 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix is taking place at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia AFP/Getty Why is the Bahrain Grand Prix taking place in Malaysia? Bahrain wanted their race to go ahead regardless, and Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa managed to strike an agreement to host the event in Malaysia. The Bahraini theme will be kept for the event this weekend, while the trophy will be the usual Bahrain Grand Prix trophy and rosewater, which …

One place you should never keep your phone while charging it overnight

One place you should never keep your phone while charging it overnight

Published by Daniella Wilson

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in It’s bedtime. You set your alarm, notice your phone is down to 23% battery, plug it in beside the bed and go to sleep. By the morning, it’s been connected to the charger for some seven to eight hours – much longer than it needed to reach 100%, especially if it’s on a fast charger. You may have a vague recollection that this could be bad for your phone’s battery. The chemistry that makes lithium-ion batteries rechargeable has a limited shelf life, and it’s shortened by repeated charge–discharge cycles. In the past, the advice has been simple: don’t leave your phone charging overnight and avoid bringing the battery up to 100% to preserve its lifespan, ideally keeping it between 20% and 80%. In principle, that advice is still sound because the fundamental chemistry of the battery inside your phone hasn’t changed. Regularly draining it to 0% and then filling it …

What Is Humanity’s Place in the Cosmos?

What Is Humanity’s Place in the Cosmos?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube For all of history, humans have been fascinated by the heavens above us. We’ve used the stars to navigate Earth, to predict the future, and to understand our place in the larger scheme of things. Changes in our view of the cosmos—from the Copernican revolution that “uncentered” the Earth to the discovery of the Big Bang and the recognition that the universe is expanding—have invariably changed our view of ourselves. In this episode of The Permanent Questions, David Brooks speaks with the astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan about the latest scientific view of the universe and what it says about humanity’s place in the order of things. Natarajan is a world-renowned theoretical physicist who has made important breakthroughs in the study of black holes and dark matter; she is also a scholar of the history and philosophy of science and the author of Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos. Along the way, David and Natarajan discuss the place of emotion in scientific research, why …

A Quiet Place star teases “big and bold” film that closes out trilogy

A Quiet Place star teases “big and bold” film that closes out trilogy

Published by Daniella Wilson

Noah Jupe has very much grown up on the big screen – and the franchise with which the young star first really made his name was A Quiet Place. Jupe played Marcus Abbott – the son of the characters played by Emily Blunt and John Krasinski – in the first two instalments in 2018 and 2021 respectively, and now he’s returning one more time for the third film. The movie – which will be released next summer – has just finished filming, and so when Radio Times spoke to Jupe about his role in new drama & Sons, we couldn’t help but ask if he could tease anything about what to expect. “I mean, this is the third. This is the trilogy. This is the one,” Jupe responded, suggesting that this will definitely be the final entry in the main narrative. “I think it pretty well bookends the series,” he added. “It’s big and it’s bold!” Want to see this content? This page contains content provided by Google reCAPTCHA. We ask for your permission before …

The guest network you never use is the safest place for half your home

The guest network you never use is the safest place for half your home

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Most people set up a guest Wi-Fi network once, hand out the password to someone visiting, and forget it exists for anything else. Sure, that’s what the name suggests, but your guest network can do much more, including being the safest place for half the devices you’ve got hooked up to your Wi-Fi. That guest Wi-Fi is a ready-made isolation zone for every smart bulb, camera, and cheap sensor cluttering your primary network. And you should be using it more often. Related My Guest Wi-Fi Is Locked Down So Nobody Can Snoop: Here’s How Give guests access to the internet, not your data. Why your main network is more exposed than you think Your smart plug and your NAS are on speaking terms Every device on your primary Wi-Fi network can, in theory, see and talk to every other device on it. That’s how file sharing, printer discovery, and casting work. However, it also means that a single compromised gadget can become a launchpad for everything else. Smart thermostats, doorbell cameras, and budget IoT gadgets …

Wizards of Waverly Place Star, Nurse Jennifer Stone Auditioned for The Pitt

Wizards of Waverly Place Star, Nurse Jennifer Stone Auditioned for The Pitt

Published by Daniella Wilson

Jennifer Stone, the former Wizards of Waverly Place star and current nurse, says she previously auditioned to be part of The Pitt. The actress appeared on the CHEERS! with Avery podcast (hosted by upcoming Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County star Avery Woods), where she reflected on the audition process for the Emmy-winning medical drama. She explained that she even studied her lines while she was working a shift as a nurse. “I auditioned for one of the series regulars for The Pitt when that first came out. And I remember, because at the end of the pilot episode, the Noah Wyle character, he’s having COVID flashbacks,” she said. “And as I often do, I was reading the script and working on lines while we were waiting for a patient to get admitted, kind of in those brief little pockets of time that you have, so I was working on the lines and reading the script at work.” Stone began working as an emergency room nurse in 2022; she also began a separate role as a disaster relief …

Have trouble sleeping in a new place? Blame the ‘first-night effect’

Have trouble sleeping in a new place? Blame the ‘first-night effect’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Whenever Robinson Leoni spends his initial night somewhere new, the pattern remains identical: drifting off takes longer, nighttime awakenings occur far more frequently, and his total rest suffers. At home, he averages seven hours. Spending an evening elsewhere—regardless of earplugs or mattress quality—drops his smartwatch total to roughly five hours. “I feel normal, you know, no stress, nothing, but it’s just I notice I wake up continuously,” said Leoni, a sales director for a tech company who travels once or twice a month for work. He is experiencing what sleep specialists call the first-night effect. The phenomenon has been confirmed by dozens of studies and is believed to have evolutionary roots, according to Anna Wick, a senior sleep researcher at the University of Freiburg in Switzerland. Ahmad Mayeli, a psychiatry professor and sleep researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, said most people experience trouble sleeping in new environments (Getty/iStock) “It’s assumed to be an adaptation response that the sleeping brain remains vigilant in this unfamiliar environment,” Wick said. Ahmad Mayeli, a psychiatry professor and sleep …