2+ week, 3+ day ago   (127+ words) In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast Decoding America, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad explore why datacentres in the US have provoked such anger – and whether that could harm Republicans in the midterms given Donald Trump is…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (205+ words) This year the FBI issued urgent warnings to parents about 764, a global online community where children are manipulated into acts of violence.With hundreds of investigations under way worldwide, including in Australia, 764 and groups like it are accused of using…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (123+ words) We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2021: How the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker became one of the world’s most contentious thinkersBy…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (139+ words) We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2021: Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (343+ words) Guardian news editor David Batty spent years longing to meet his birth mother. But his reunion with the woman who had been forced to give him up was far from the fairytale he had imagined. He explains why the legacy…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (118+ words) Last summer, Wisconsin comedian Charlie Berens started getting messages from people in his state about plans for a major datacenter in their community. When Berens dug in, he was shocked to discover the impact the datacenter would have on local…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (110+ words) Endo Kazutoshi spent decades climbing to the top of the culinary world, only for a devastating fire to threaten it all. I joined him in the aftermath as he travelled around his homeland, visiting the people that helped make himWritten…...

6+ mon, 2+ day ago   (131+ words) Rutger Bregman on why he thinks consumers should cancel their ChatGPT accounts The historian Rutger Bregman argues that consumers should boycott OpenAI’s ChatGPT after the company’s deal with the Pentagon. “A lot of people don’t know that their friendly chatbot,…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (139+ words) Author and academic Katherine Rundell explores the precipitous decline in reading books for pleasure, and what can be done to reverse it Katherine Rundell may be an award-winning children’s author and a scholar at Oxford University, but even she finds…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (164+ words) Scientists are beginning to understand that ageing is not simply a linear process and we age, according to recent research, in three accelerated bursts: at about 40, 60 and 80 years old. In this episode from July, Ian Sample talks to Stanford University’s…...