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Orwell vs Huxley: Why ‘2026 is the new 2016’ trend is more dangerous than you think In 1949, shortly after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the British dystopian novel that remains widely read and relevant today, George Orwell received a letter from his former French teacher at Eton: Aldous Huxley. Huxley begins by praising the…
‘2026 Is the New 2016’: Why everyone’s engaging in performative trend-hopping The moment we realised the “2016 is back” thing had slipped out of our hands was not when journalists started writing explainers, or when social media filled up with throwback posts, but when Charlie Puth, now well into his thirties, posted a selfie video…
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) have found a new layer under Greenland’s ice sheet that could let ice flow to the ocean faster than previous models thought. The results suggest that Greenland’s contribution to rising sea levels in the future may speed up in warmer conditions, even in places…
Residents in West Sumatra, Indonesia have been urged to stop collecting and drinking water from a newly formed sinkhole after authorities found it was contaminated with E. coli, a bacteria linked to serious gastrointestinal illness.The incident unfolded in Limapuluh Kota Regency, where a large ground collapse drew crowds of locals who believed the water pooling…
Stranger Things Gets ‘Sequels, Prequels, Requels and Spin-Off’—and Episode 9 ‘Conformity Gate’ in New SNL Sketch A few weeks after Stranger Things ended, Saturday Night Live opened its first episode of 2026 by leaning into something viewers had already been joking about online: the idea that the show might be finished, but the franchise clearly…
NYC’s new delivery worker law takes effect January 26, 2026, as Zohran Mamdani sues one app and warns 60 others of shutdowns/ Youtube New York City has escalated its confrontation with delivery app companies, filing a lawsuit against one operator it accuses of widespread wage theft while simultaneously warning more than 60 platforms that tougher…
Adrian Shine, who spent over five decades searching for the Loch Ness Monster, now concludes it almost certainly never existed/ Image: X For more than half a century, Adrian Shine has been synonymous with the modern hunt for the Loch Ness Monster. He arrived on the shores of the loch in the early 1970s as…
Otis Johnson spent 44 years in prison for the alleged 1975 attempted murder of a police officer/ Image: Youtube Otis Johnson stepped into Times Square in 2014 and felt as though he had landed somewhere unreal. The crowds moved quickly, faces fixed forward, thin white wires trailing from their ears. To Johnson, who had last…
Image: Edwin Asher Orbituary A set of skeletal remains that washed ashore on a remote Washington beach nearly two decades ago has been identified as Clarence Edwin “Ed” Asher, a former mayor of the small Oregon town of Fossil who vanished during a fishing trip in 2006. The identification closes a case that had long…
Indian High Commissioner to Canada Dinesh Patnaik has come into sharp focus after delivering a tough message to Ottawa on terrorism and extremist activity. In a recent interview, Patnaik accused Canada of ignoring India’s repeated warnings for decades and argued that the failure to act has allowed anti-India elements to operate openly. His remarks come…
