The Brutalist Report

The Conversation

• How sea mines threaten global trade, and how navies detect them [5d]
• Decades of hostility between Iran and the US were preceded by a little-remembered century-long friendship [6d]
• NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long-term lunar presence [6d]
• Basic income’s appeal today is similar to its roots in 18th-century England – it’s a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain [6d]
• Shiite grief over attacks on Iran’s sacred cities has deep historical roots [6d]
• Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth [6d]
• Panicking scientists, canceled experiments – federal funding cuts turned my work as a research dean into crisis management [6d]
• Are multiverses real? An astrophysicist explains why it depends on how you define ‘real’ [6d]
• We analyzed Philly street scenes and identified signs of gentrification using machine learning trained on longtime residents’ observations [6d]