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Revisited: Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison – podcast

My poems were written in anger after Tiananmen Square. But what motivates most prison writing is a fear of forgetting. Today I am free, but the regime has never stopped its war on words. By Liao Yiwu

Revisited: Did the assassination of JFK kickstart the conspiracy theory movement?

Jonathan Freedland speaks to Prof Kathryn Olmsted, author of Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 about why the assassination of JFK spawned dozens of conspir…

Revisited: The Unabomber and his ongoing influence

Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people, died in prison last year. But his manifesto promoting violent rebellion against the mode…

Does Google’s ‘mindboggling’ new chip bring quantum computers any closer? – podcast

On Monday Google unveiled its Willow quantum computing chip. The new chip takes just five minutes to complete tasks that would take 10 septillion years for some of the world’s fastest conventional co…

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