World Press Photograph not too long ago revealed its 2025 winners – and it obtained them below scrutiny. They’ve issued an apology for pairing two award-winning photographs taken by completely different photographers as a thematic set. One picture depicted a six-year-old Ukrainian baby experiencing panic assaults after Russian artillery shelling, whereas the opposite confirmed an…
It’s Earth Day at the moment. A day the place we are able to take a pause and admire our fantastic and delightful planet. A day for reflecting on our personal duty to assist and shield this world for ourselves and future generations. So in at the moment’s put up I’d prefer to share 101…
I used to run a workshop referred to as “Writing Whereas the World is on Fireplace.” The thought was to deliver collectively individuals who have been working for a greater world (activists, organizers, worriers of every kind) to inform their tales and transfer their ardour onto the web page. This morning I used to be…
How Science Fiction Can Change the World – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 142 “I’d say I stay on this house with my Janey McCallister House Station Thriller collection. I believe lots concerning the candy spot between present know-how and future hypothesis.” On this How To Write the Future podcast episode, host and…
Common readers know I’m drafting Motive for Being within the World as I’m going, detailing the preconceived chapters as I start to write down them, so, as as soon as earlier than, I acknowledge a chapter that looms too giant for Substack. I must divide it in elements. This last chapter, “Welträson,” seems earlier than…
“Enable your self to be bored slightly. In our world filled with distractions, create some area for nothingness.” ~Unknown My roommate sat within the kitchen, consuming his late home-cooked dinner, and commented with a half-mocking smile, “Ah, you’re nonetheless residing.” The phrases hung within the air, awkwardly playful however sharp sufficient to sting. They echoed…
Portray by physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf commemorating the ninetieth birthday of mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson Once I started publishing Purpose for Being within the World in Might 2024, I imagined it solely a number of weeks in period. Because it has turned out, for causes of expanded ambition and the state of the nation (American…