🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Film,Comedy films,Drama films,China,Asia Pacific,Comedy,Culture,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'PDo you know the law of entropy? “Life is a process of constant degeneration,” says one doctor in this Chinese comedy-drama set in a hospital, but you wouldn't know that from the frenetic, chatty first half hour of director Chen Sicheng's death-focused film. "Existence to Death" begins with caregiver Xiao Ping (Jiang Long) about to throw himself off the roof because, after a plan to flog his robot bosses goes wrong, he falls into the clutches of a…
đź’Ą Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Landon Donovan after scoring the winner against Algeria in 2010. Getty Images.The World Cup kicks off on Thursday, and we hope our World Cup predictions page will give you everything you need to follow the tournament. We’re monitoring injuries and friendlies as our model makes last-minute adjustments. And we’ll update the forecast after each match day to show you how the games affect everyone’s advancement and championship odds.Most of this detail is for paying subscribers. But since more than three-quarters of the Silver Bulletin…
đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Stage,Children's theatre,Theatre,Culture,Magic âś… **What You’ll Learn**: IIf you catch a young audience member at just the right moment, when they're old enough to participate fully but not so old that the sharp edges of teenage sarcasm are starting to creep in, you can make them really believe in the magic of theater. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the kind of show that will make them - and maybe some adults - believe in magic.It may seem odd to start by praising the lighting design, but this is one…
đź’Ą Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, which has been published today, addresses the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in mathematical research. It was developed following a 2025 workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden and in consultation with an international group of researchers. The Declaration outlines a range of ways in which AI systems are being used in mathematics, including the formalisation of proofs. It highlights concerns about how AI may affect established practices in mathematical research. The authors identify several potential…
đź’Ą Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Music,Black British culture,Mobos,British identity and society,Culture,Pop and rock,Rap,R&B,Race,Awards and prizes,Society âś… **What You’ll Learn**: I I first met Kanya King in the mid-1990s, when I was still reeling from the failure of my attempt to target a black audience with my newspaper, Black Britton. Kania came two years later and showed how it should be done. By framing its awards as “music of black origin,” it not only reached out to the relatively small black British population, but also brought in an entirely new audience, who recognized…
🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: 1948 was an interesting time for computing. For decades, businesses had used punch card equipment that added and sorted electromechanically. Now these electromechanical relays and counting wheels were being used to build room-filling general-purpose computers such as Harvard Mark I (1944) and IBM's SSEC (1948). But slow electromechanical mechanisms were already becoming obsolete. World War II had fostered the development of electronics and vacuum tubes for radio, radar, and navigation. Electronic technology was being used in massive electronic computers, such as Colossus (1943) and ENIAC…
✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Edith Wharton,Books,Culture,US news đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: The previously unpublished short story by Edith Wharton, the first female Pulitzer Prize winner who summed up the so-called golden age of American society in her best-selling novels including The Age of Innocence, made its public debut Friday.The Men Who Saved the World, discovered in the author's archives at Yale University, appears in The Strand, a quarterly magazine that has uncovered previously lost or previously unknown works by such literary luminaries as Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene, and Tennessee Williams.The story,…
đź’Ą Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: I just wanted to see if I could do it.The disc was Gladiator, a two-disc set that has been on my shelf for years. The plan was small, more curiosity than project: pull the disc into the computer, see if it would let me copy it, and if it worked, burn a fresh copy onto a blank DVD. The kind of thing every kid with a Dell tower in 2003 spent an entire weekend trying to figure out.In 2026 the entire workflow takes about…
✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Music,Culture,Photography,Museums,Nottinghamshire,Art and design,UK news âś… **What You’ll Learn**: “It's like an invasion of rabbit body snatchers,” says JT Thompson, former lead singer of the 1970s American rock band Peter Rabbit, looking at what is considered one of the world's worst record covers.The 1979 album Roadstar shows all five members of the California rock band with their faces transformed into rabbit bodies, with Thompson appearing, like a terrible dream, smiling from a top hat."We had no idea they would do that," he added. “This actually came up…
🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: True communism has never been tried, right? If only those brave communards that still exist could escape the sabotages of global capital, we’d all get to benefit from this complete, correct, and egalitarian economic system. Agile works, it’s just companies refuse to adopt it properly. People insist on thinking in top down terms, managers demand up front estimates, alas. If only these companies would actually implement capital A agile, everything would go so smoothly! The people not on board with going all in on agentic…
