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Alive by Melanie Challenger review – a maverick study of what it means to have a body
Melanie Challenger’s book *Alive: The Hidden Intelligence of the Living World* argues that we have misunderstood nature and ourselves by fixating on souls, genes or minds rather than paying attention to bodies. The reviewer frames this as an important corrective, noting that bodies have been marginalised in scientific and philosophical thought, perhaps because they remind…
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Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Rajasthan Royals Sales Push IPL Cricket’s Business Value to $20.6 Billion, Houlihan Lokey Study Finds
The IPL’s business value has risen to $20.6 billion, up 11.4% year on year, according to Houlihan Lokey’s 2026 IPL Valuation Study, driven largely by record-breaking sales of two franchises, Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Rajasthan Royals. The findings underline the growing appeal of Indian cricket to major global investors, with the report noting that only…
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‘As Light as Air’ Is a Hypnotic Experimental Doc About Collective Ecstasy in a City in Pakistan (Locarno Trailer)
Pakistani filmmaker Umair Bilal’s feature debut, the experimental documentary “As Light as Air,” will have its world premiere on 11 August in the Critics’ Weeks section of the 79th Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. The film explores spiritual life in Sehwan, a Sufi city known for pilgrimage, folklore and collective ecstasy, offering audiences a hypnotic,…
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Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli review – a mother and daughter’s odyssey
Valeria Luiselli’s fourth novel, Beginning Middle End, follows a Mexican narrator living in the US who, after a difficult divorce, travels through Europe on a book tour with her 12-year-old daughter before settling in Sicily for the summer. The novel is prompted by the daughter’s request for her mother to write a story with a…
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Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
A new study suggests that organic, free-range eggs have a greater climate impact than eggs from caged hens, as free-range systems require more birds to produce the same number of eggs, since caged hens are more efficient producers. This challenges the common assumption that higher-welfare farming methods are automatically better for the environment, and researchers…
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Police make alarming discovery inside home in Sydney as criminals are put on notice
New South Wales Police have raided a home in Sydney’s south-west and seized a large stash of suspected drugs and stolen property, as part of a broader operation targeting organised crime in the area. Officers executed a search warrant at a property in Glenfield, near Liverpool, uncovering items believed to be linked to break-ins and…
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California AG-led coalition sues to stop Paramount-Warner Bros merger
Ari Emanuel, chief executive of TKO Group and former head of Endeavor, has publicly defended his friend and business associate David Ellison by attacking the state lawsuit seeking to block Paramount’s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Emanuel argued that the antitrust action, led by California attorney general Rob…
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Cost of Net Zero will hit £40BILLION by the end of the decade, report reveals
A report has revealed that the cost of the UK’s transition to Net Zero is projected to reach £40 billion by the end of the decade, highlighting the mounting financial burden of the country’s climate commitments. The finding is likely to intensify debate over the pace and affordability of decarbonisation policies at a time when…
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Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact
A new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences offers fresh insight into how the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago triggered the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. Researchers found that the collision generated a vast cloud of extremely fine dust that superheated Earth’s upper atmosphere, effectively broiling exposed living…
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Richard Linklater Looks Back at ‘Boyhood,’ 12 Years Later: “Time Never Quits Working on Us”
On the season nine finale of THR’s ‘It Happened in Hollywood’ podcast, the director revisits his sprawling experiment — from the $200,000-a-year handshake deal with IFC to Patricia Arquette’s Oscar-winning farewell scene.