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guardianTo deal with climate change we need a new financial system
Abolishing debt-based currency isn’t a new idea, but it could hold the secret to ending our economies’ environmentally damaging addiction to growth.
GuardianDNA study lays bare devastating damage caused by smoking
“By identifying the root causes, we gain the sort of knowledge we need to think more seriously about cancer prevention.” Major investigation into root causes of cancer reveals how tobacco smoke mutates DNA and gives rise to more than a dozen types of tumour.
GUARDIANRadical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes
Low-calorie diet caused remission in 90% of trial patients who lost 15kg or more, even those who had been diabetic for six years, say researchers.
GUARDIANAshamed to work in Silicon Valley: how techies became the new bankers
Wall Street has long been the industry people love to hate. But as big tech’s reputation plummets, suddenly a job at Facebook doesn’t seem so cool.
guardianElephants mourn. Dogs love. Why do we deny the feelings of other species?
Scientists are discovering more and more about the internal lives of animals. But what does this mean for the way humans behave?
guardianRise of the new geeks: how the outsiders won
From superhero movies to techy sitcoms to captains of industry, geeks have been running the show for years. But now that 'geek chic' is in the dictionary, and Topshop is selling 'dork' T-shirts, what is the future for nerd culture?
GUARDIANHow Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago
The prehistoric shift towards cultivation began our preoccupation with hierarchy and growth – and even changed how we perceive the passage of time.
GUARDIANThe enigma of Italy's ancient Etruscans is finally unravelled
DNA tests on their Italian descendants show the 'tuscii' came from Turkey.
GuardianWhy what we think we know about schizophrenia is wrong
When novelist and former mental health nurse Nathan Filer met a patient who wouldn’t take his pills, it started him on a journey into the complex and contradictory world of schizophrenia
GuardianGorgeous goats
Pictures. Meet Ben, Bella, Sherlock and Sydney – the elegant goats turned into portraits by Kevin Horan. As the American photographer explains, he just treated them ‘like customers in a small-town photo studio’
guardianThe rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work
Using what one expert calls a ‘Wizard of Oz technique’, some companies keep their reliance on humans a secret from investors
GUARDIANA life in books: J. G. Ballard
“Could consumerism turn into fascism? The underlying psychologies aren't all that far removed from one another. If you go into a huge shopping mall and you're looking down the parade, it's the same theatrical aspect: these disciplined ranks of merchandise, all glittering like fascist uniforms. When you enter a mall, you are taking part in a ceremony of affirmation, which you endorse just by your presence.” // 'I embraced surrealism - like a lover - and psychoanalysis, which closely abutted surrealism. Together, they represented what I wanted to do'. JG Ballard talks to James Campbell
guardianAir pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals
Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’
guardianA story of survival: New York’s last remaining independent bookshops
With small traders struggling to stay afloat, writer Philippe Ungar and photographer Franck Bohbot travelled across the Big Apple to meet 50 indie booksellers in their habitats.
GuardianExtinct thinking: was the hapless dodo really destined to die out?
New research hints that far from being the greedy, clumsy bird of legend, the dodo was a resilient animal whose demise was caused by an ecological disaster.
GUARDIANLibraries show empty displays in protest against copyright law
Libraries and museums across the UK show their anger at extended restrictions on public release of documents.
GUARDIANPirated novelist gets on board with rogue translator
Online references to his book lead Peter Mountford to baffled Russian reader – at work on illegal ebook version.
GUARDIANHow the Beatles' Yellow Submarine gave rise to modern animation
Shrek, Futurama, and Marge and Homer would not have come into being without the Beatles' subversive masterpiece, says Simpsons writer Josh Weinstein.
GuardianPolice rush in after man heard screaming 'I'm going to kill you'. It was a spider.
Well, hopefully one day speciesism will be overcome and we will find it proper for the police to promptly intervene in any spider-brutality incident! // Officers in Sydney respond to reports of man shouting threats and furniture being thrown – only to find a ‘quite embarrassed’ man on his own in an apartment.
GUARDIANAge of unreason
In this wide-ranging interview, JG Ballard talks to Jeannette Baxter about globalisation and terrorism, government and the media, the internet and intimacy. // “A century is a long time. Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the internet would have - entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper on the e-mail screen, there's a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry (from the osprey-tracking site to tours round old nuclear silos and the extraordinary aerial trip down the California coastline and a thousand others), not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.” // “But there is something deeply suffocating about life today in the prosperous west. Bourgeoisification, the suburbanisation of the soul, proceeds at an unnerving pace. Tyranny becomes docile and subservient, and a soft totalitarianism prevails, as obsequious as a wine waiter. Nothing is allowed to distress and unsettle us. The politics of the playgroup rules us all. The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. When Markham (not JGB) uses the phrase 'upholstered apocalypse' he reveals that he knows what is really going on in Chelsea Marina.”
Guardian'Being homeless is better than working for Amazon'
Nichole Gracely has a master’s degree and was one of Amazon’s best order-pickers. Now, after protesting the company, she’s homeless.
GUARDIANSustainability is unhelpful: we need to think about regeneration
The term sustainability has been expanded to become almost meaningless. It's time to talk about regeneration.
guardianHow a half-educated tech elite delivered us into chaos
If our supersmart tech leaders knew a bit more about history or philosophy we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now.
guardianBehemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet
No language in history has dominated the world quite like English does today. Is there any point in resisting?
GUARDIANJust 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions
Chevron, Exxon and BP among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age, figures show.
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