Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
Dan-el Padilla Peralta on Learning How to Combat Loss
When the Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta was going up for a promotion to full professor, in early 2023, it occurred to him that one of the central preoccupations of his career was loss. Being a scholar of the preservation of knowledge, he realized, also made him an expert on its destruction. Since then, loss…
Read More‘What an illusion’: Iran’s president mocks Netanyahu’s vow to help country with water crisis
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urges Iranians to fight for freedom, promising Israeli solutions to Iran’s water crisis once Iran is free. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian mocked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday in a post on X/Twitter for saying that Israel would help Iran solve its water crisis once it is free from the Islamic…
Read MoreArchaeologists perplexed to find west African ancestry in early medieval England
DNA recovered from skeletons buried in a 7th-century cemetery on the south coast of England has revealed that the buried individuals had west African ancestry, raising further questions about early medieval migrations to Europe. Archaeologists documented significant migration during this period into England from continental northern Europe, with historical accounts describing the settlement of Angles,…
Read MoreThe Revenge of Millennial Cringe
In the summer of 2009, a shambolic Los Angeles band called Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros released a single titled “Home.” A romantic duet between the group’s founder and lead singer, Alex Ebert, and his bandmate and sometime girlfriend, Jade Castrinos, it sounded like a parody of a folk standard, with whistling, jangling tambourine,…
Read MoreComing of Age in Panic Mode
The books of Michael Clune, or at least the ones written for a nonacademic audience, have focussed on very particular chapters of his life. “White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin” is a memoir about Clune’s addiction to the drug in his twenties; “Gamelife” is a memoir about growing up in the nineteen-eighties with early…
Read MoreAs Everest costs go up, Nepal just made it free to climb nearly 100 other mountains
Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. A permit to climb the world’s tallest mountain costs an eye-popping $15,000 — and that’s before you add in the price of airfare, gear and a guide. But Nepal,…
Read MoreIsrael bombards Gaza City as UK and allies demand action against ‘unfolding famine’
Gaza City has come under intense air attack, the territory’s Hamas-run civil defence agency has said, as Israeli forces prepare to launch an operation to take over the city. Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman, said the residential areas of Zeitoun and Sabra had been hit for three days causing “massive destruction to civilian homes”, with residents…
Read MoreBritish soldiers using sex workers in Kenya despite ban, inquiry finds
An investigation by the British Army has found some soldiers stationed at a controversial base in Kenya continue to use sex workers despite being banned from doing so. Soldiers at the British Army Training Unit Kenya (Batuk) used sex workers “at a low or moderate” level, a report said, adding more work was needed to…
Read MoreNetanyahu vows Israeli help on water crisis once Iran is liberated from ‘tyrants of Tehran’
Prime Minister Netanyahu urges Iranians to fight for freedom, promising Israeli solutions to Iran’s water crisis once Iran is free. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday released a video message addressed to the people of Iran, pledging that Israel would help solve the country’s severe water shortages once it is “free” from the current regime.…
Read MoreWhat If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around today’s artificial-intelligence technologies can be traced back to January, 2020, when a team of researchers at OpenAI published a thirty-page report titled “Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.” The team was led by…
Read MoreDisguised IDF special forces arrest Palestinian in Gaza’s Deir-al-Balah
Hamas sources reported Khattab’s arrest, but did not mention if he was affiliated with the terrorist organization. A Palestinian named Ismail Abdel Karim Khattab was arrested by an IDF special forces unit disguised on a bus in the Deir al-Balah area in the central Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media citing local reports on Tuesday.…
Read MoreSteigenberger Icon Europäischer Hof reopens after renovation
H World Group hotel brand Steigenberger Icon’s Europäischer Hof in Baden-Baden, Germany, has reopened its doors after undergoing extensive renovations. The renovation aims to maintain the hotel’s historic essence while updating its facilities for contemporary guests. The reopening signifies a step forward for H World Group, which acquired Deutsche Hospitality, which is now known as…
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