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The Common Table in a Burning World: Why the United Nations Must Be Revived, Not Abandoned

The chamber still looks improbably calm. Green marble. Translation headsets. Country names set out in alphabetical order, as though the world’s grief can be...

Los Angeles: Reinventing the Concrete River

Explore Los Angeles' ambitious efforts to transform its concrete flood-control river back into a living ecological corridor amidst urban and climate challenges.

Shanghai, China: Sponge City on the Delta

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 12 Shanghai is sinking. The city centre has subsided more than three metres since the late nineteenth century, while the...

The Living Marsh: The World’s Remaining Wetlands and the Intelligence of Water

The Living Marsh Feature · The Living World The world’s remaining wetlands, the work they do for the planet, and the intelligence of water At first light,...

Designing the Cure: How Artificial Intelligence Broke Medicine’s Most Expensive Law

AI is revolutionizing medicine, from drug discovery to diagnosis. It's breaking old laws of cost and time, but ethical challenges remain.

The Enchantress of Abstraction: The Life, Work, Legacy and Genius of Augusta Ada Lovelace

The Convergence of Poetry and Logic The history of science is frequently punctuated by figures who exist at the confluence of opposing forces—individuals whose intellects...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick’s Question Meets Quantum Consciousness and the Age of AI

The question Philip K. Dick posed in 1968 was never really about sheep. It was about the ineffable thing that separates life from simulation, consciousness...

Moltbook: The Bot-Only Social Network Isn’t the Singularity—It’s a Stress Test for the Agent Era

*An ABC Australia report on Moltbook (February 2026) and the ensuing security coverage is the spark for this commentary—because beneath the memes is a...

The Large Language Model Landscape of February 2026

The Permian competition tightens: pruning, agentic browsers, and the energy bill becomes law. February 2026 doesn’t feel like a month of flashy invention. It feels...

The Global South and the Fight Against “Extractive” AI

As we step into 2026, the global landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is marked by a growing resistance in the Global South against the...

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