Sam Altman and OpenAI’s board of directors: the fall and return of a charismatic leader
On Saturday, the news broke: Sam Altman, until then CEO of OpenAI, had been fired by the board of directors of his company…
Argentina and Javier Milei’s libertarian experiment
Rarely has a presidential election in Latin America attracted so much attention in the rest of the world, but the emergence of Javier Milei and his libertarian project has focused the attention…
Physics has long failed to explain life – but we’re testing a groundbreaking new theory in the lab
Modern physics can explain everything from the spin of the tiniest particle to the behaviour of entire galaxy clusters. But it can’t explain life.…
Israel-Hamas conflict: what young Palestinians think about four key issues that affect their lives
By Erika Jiménez On the eighth day of the current intensification of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, I saw a tweet that said that there would be more uproar in the West…
Kosovo and Serbia in crisis talks as regional tension escalates thanks to Russian meddling
Kosovo’s prime minister, Albin Kurti, and Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vučić, are scheduled to meet this weekend for the first time since NATO decided to send about 600 more peacekeeping troops into the…
Can Israel and Hamas be held to account for alleged crimes against civilians?
By Amy Maguire International humanitarian law – the law of armed conflict – aims to constrain how wars are fought. It is designed to protect noncombatants and limit the means of warfare.…
The story of Israel and Palestine in comic strips
In these times, comics and graphic novels can offer an incisive, insightful medium for thoughtfulness and reflection…
The EU and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: many voices, no shared vision
At this stage, coordinated action by France, Germany and the UK, as in the case of Iran, does not seem to be in sight either. Unfortunately, the Israeli-Palestinian issue shows the limits…
Oppenheimer’s warning lives on: international laws and treaties are failing to stop a new arms race
As with every potential future threat, it seems, international law and regulation are left scrambling to catch up with the march of technology – to govern what Oppenheimer called “the relations between…
Noam Chomsky versus Collapse Theory – A New “Debate of the Century”
A New “Debate of the Century” between Noam Chomsky, Miguel Fuentes, Guy McPherson, John Bellamy Foster, Yanis Varoufakis, and Max Wilbert…