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Iggy Pop is mother nature: best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

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Pick of the weekSweet Little HumanFor a sideways take on the climate emergency, look no further than this series featuring Iggy Pop as a potty-mouthed Mother Nature. Skip the opening episode and its slightly overwrought attempt at world-building and head straight to Fire Animals for an entertaining take on a vital – but often destructive – element. HJDWidely available, episodes weeklyTubbyThis weight-themed podcast from Canadian outfit Left of Dial can be a difficult listen, with host Alan Zweig sometimes a self-flagellating guide. But it is candid and far-reaching; the Washington Post’s Shane O’Neill is strong on what it means to…

NFL results & week six review: Buccaneers & Colts go 5-1, season over for Ravens?

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Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Could Baker Mayfield (left) be the MVP? The Buccaneers fans think soByPaul HighamBBC Sport JournalistWith a third of the NFL season gone teams are starting to show their true colours, with some surprising names leading the pack.The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts became the first teams to reach five wins as they continued their impressive starts to the campaign.The Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots are emerging as contenders, while the Pittsburgh Steelers are looking comfortable in the AFC North. The season looks over already for one of the big pre-season Super Bowl favourites…

Strava eyes IPO as Gen Z trades dating apps for running clubs

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Strava, the 16-year-old fitness tracking app, is gearing up to go public, the Financial Times reports. CEO Michael Martin told the FT that the San Francisco company plans to list “at some point,” eyeing capital for more acquisitions. The company, backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, and Jackson Square Ventures, was last valued at $2.2 billion in May. Strava has the wind at its back, certainly. The app’s user base has exploded to 50 million monthly active users in 2025, according to Sensor Tower – nearly double its closest competitor, with downloads up 80% year-over-year. Strava’s growth coincides with a cultural…

Warren Buffett’s Key Advice on Protecting Wealth from Inflation

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Key Takeaways Buffett calls self‑development “the best investment by far” because skills can’t be taxed or “inflated away.”The next‑best hedge is to own stock in companies whose products require little new capital but can raise prices at the rate of inflation or even higher.Firms built on royalty-like models or networks often convert revenue to cash without big reinvestments, giving them room to outpace rising costs. Inflation may ebb and flow, but Warren Buffett's two lessons for fighting it are timeless. Become so good at what you do that people will pay a premium for your skills.Own stock in businesses that don’t…

Luther Burrell: Blowing whistle on racism killed my career

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Burrell told BBC Sport he also faced prejudice within the England set-up, during a Test career that saw him win 15 caps after his debut in February 2014."I've had several traumatic experiences within England camp," he said."Some discrimination and some just old-school mentality that's really unacceptable."Racism had become normalised in dressing rooms, in Burrell's experience."It's something that has been dressed up as banter and that's been the problem that I've personally suffered and seen," said Burrell, who is of Jamaican descent."Over a period of time you just learn to believe that it's the norm and that is fine and that…

Introducing the Fastmail desktop app

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Fastmail is now available as a dedicated desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux. It’s the same Fastmail you know and love, now with the focus and convenience of a standalone app. With our desktop app you can: Launch Fastmail from your dock or taskbar and find it in your platform’s app switcher. Make Fastmail your default email client, so email links create a new message directly in Fastmail. Work whenever, wherever, with full offline support, just like our mobile apps. You can always read your mail, manage your calendar, and write replies — your changes sync back seamlessly when…

‘A hunger for wild, physical sensation’: Alan Hollinghurst on painter and writer Denton Welch who died tragically young | Art and design

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What Denton Welch’s life was like before his accident we know from the books he wrote after it. They give a picture of a teenager’s experience unparalleled in its vividness and oddity. Welch was born in Shanghai in 1915, to an American mother and an English businessman father, and brought to England when he was four. In his first book, 1943’s Maiden Voyage, he describes his return to China in 1932, after he’d run away from Repton school in Derbyshire.All his characteristics as a writer are evident from the start: an astonishing candour of response to sensations of all kinds,…

8 Best Cat Water Fountains, WIRED Tested and Reviewed (2025)

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Compare Our PicksOthers We TestedCourtesy of PetkikPetkit Eversweet Max for $90: This techy automatic fountain can be either cordless or battery-powered (lasting up to 83 days), and the drinking bowl is made of stainless steel, but the reservoir is plastic. Because of the shape of the basin with the chunky battery and reservoir bowl, it’s a little awkward to clean. The app logs every time a pet drinks and compares it over time to determine whether your cat’s drinking habits have changed. The app also keeps track of when the filter needs replacing and when you last added water. However,…

Steve Clarke angered by lacklustre Scotland despite World Cup qualifying win over Belarus

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It's not every day Scotland are booed off after winning a match which puts them to within two games of automatic qualification for a World Cup, but such are the level of expectation set by Clarke's team.While the Scots weren't shooting the lights out in attack, they also allowed Belarus to be comfortable for large parts of the game. The fact they had 10 shots more than Scotland is a huge cause for concern."At half-time the manager came in but he was absolutely furious with us," said defender Scott McKenna."We didn't win any first balls, didn't win any second balls…

The Government Shutdown Raised Doubts About the 2026 Social Security COLA Announcement. Now It’s Getting Back on Track

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KEY TAKEAWAYS Bureau of Labor Statistics employees are returning to work so it can release its September inflation report on Oct. 24.This will allow the Social Security Administration to calculate the 2026 cost-of-living adjustment before the Nov. 1 deadline.Although the government remains shut down, Social Security beneficiaries will soon know how much their checks will increase next year. Security beneficiaries will get an idea about what next year's benefit checks will look like after all. The federal government said it is bringing back some furloughed Bureau of Labor Statistics employees to release the September Consumer Price Index on Oct. 24.…