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S2Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century   Back in the 1990s, computer engineer and Wall Street “quant” were the hot occupations in business. Today data scientists are the hires firms are competing to make. As companies wrestle with unprecedented volumes and types of information, demand for these experts has raced well ahead of supply. Indeed, Greylock Partners, the VC firm that backed Facebook and LinkedIn, is so worried about the shortage of data scientists that it has a recruiting team dedicated to channeling them to the businesses in its portfolio.
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S3What It Takes to Give a Great Presentation  Never underestimate the power of great communication. It can help you land the job of your dreams, attract investors to back your idea, or elevate your stature within your organization. But while there are plenty of good speakers in the world, you can set yourself apart out by being the person who can deliver something great over and over. Here are a few tips for business professionals who want to move from being good speakers to great ones: be concise (the fewer words, the better); never use bullet points (photos and images paired together are more memorable); don’t underestimate the power of your voice (raise and lower it for emphasis); give your audience something extra (unexpected moments will grab their attention); rehearse (the best speakers are the best because they practice — a lot).
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S4Jimmy Red corn grits with egg yolks  At Audrey, chef Sean Brock's Appalachia-inspired restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, diners enjoy Jimmy Red grits, a porridge made from dried, stone-ground corn, topped with a sorghum-cured egg yolk and bay laurel (also known as sweet bay). This is a dish that would have been impossible to make 15 years ago.That's because Jimmy Red, the coveted heirloom corn variety from which the grits are made, was in danger of going the way of the woolly mammoth until Brock stepped in to help save it. The deep red "dent" corn, named for the dent on each corn kernel, likely made its way from the Appalachian Mountains to South Carolina's James Island around 1900, where it was prized by bootleggers who distilled it into moonshine (illegal whiskey). In the early 2000s, the sole remaining bootlegger growing the corn died, and the corn almost died, too.
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S5Doctor Who: Who is the greatest Doctor of all?  Today, Doctor Who celebrates its 60th birthday – a truly astonishing achievement for a TV series. And in that time, no less than 13 actors have played the time-travelling Doctor, with Ncuti Gatwa set to become the 14th when he takes over at Christmas (although he will officially be known as the Fifteenth Doctor, as one actor, David Tennant, has now played two separate incarnations of the Doctor).In honour of this great day, we decided to ask a selection of Doctor Who experts a very tricky question: who is the greatest Doctor of them all? Here were their answers, which make for perfect fuel for continuing the debate in your own home.
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S6Napoleon and Josephine: Was their great love affair a myth?  The relationship between Napoleon and the woman he called "Josephine" is central to the plot of Ridley Scott's new film about the French Emperor, which is released this week. It portrays Napoleon as someone who, according to Scott: "conquered the world to try to win her [Josephine's] love, and when he couldn't, conquered it to destroy her, and destroyed himself in the process".More like this:- Napoleon review: 'An awe-inspiring achievement' - Was Napoleon really a monster? - Was Kubrick's Napoleon the greatest film never made?
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S7Brandalism: the environmental activists using spoof adverts to critique rampant consumerism - podcast  Amid the flurry of billboards promoting cut price deals in the run up to Black Friday, some activists have slipped in the odd spoof advert. By subverting public advertising space, they’re risking legal action to try and make serious points about the excesses of consumer culture and the perilous state of the environment. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we find out about the subvertising movement and its links to a wider conversation about mass consumerism and the environment.
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S8Booker prize 2023: why these shortlisted novels represent a 'golden age' of Irish writing  PhD Candidate, Contemporary English Literature and Critical Theory, Trinity College Dublin This year’s Booker prize shortlist is an exciting line up, melding established, prize-winning authors and debut writers. The 2023 shortlist contains two Irish authors – Paul Murray and Paul Lynch – and on the long list of 13 novels, Elaine Feeney’s How to Build a Boat and Sebastian Barry’s Old God’s Time also made the cut.
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S9S10Ukraine war: it may be stalemate on land, but Kyiv's Black Sea success could bring wider benefits this winter  As the attention of the world centres on the war in Gaza, many commentators believe that the war in Ukraine is becoming a stalemate. To date, Ukraine’s highly anticipated summer counteroffensive has not resulted in any substantial territorial gain, and Russia has not made any progress either.In military terms, a stalemate is not necessarily negative, depending on your perspective. It’s a chance to replenish ammunition stocks (for instance, Russia’s limited supply of missiles) or procure new key weapons systems for the next phase of the war (Ukraine’s acquisition of F-16 fighter jets.
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S11Size of brain area linked with cognitive decline - even in people with no other warning signs of Alzheimer's disease  A small, seahorse-sized area of the brain is responsible for most of our learning and memory. Called the hippocampus, this area is key to many important brain functions, including turning short-term memories into long-term ones, regulating our emotions and making spatial navigation possible – essentially, our ability to plan where to go and how to get there.As we get older, it’s normal for the hippocampus to shrink somewhat. But with certain health conditions, this volume loss is more rapid. Unsurprisingly, Alzheimer’s disease is one of these conditions.
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S12Kherson one year on: a city bereft of its younger residents and still bombarded by Russian forces across the river  It is a year now since Ukrainian forces liberated Kherson. I knew it before the war as a polyglot and bustling port city (if still determinedly Soviet in feel) sitting largely on the western (right) bank of the mighty Dnipro River. In the first few days of the war, in February 2022, Kherson was seized by Russian forces. It was the largest and strategically most important Ukrainian city to come under Russian occupation. While a major administrative centre itself, Kherson also represented an important gateway for Russian forces in terms of their hoped-for later push towards the vital port city of Odesa, some 150km further to the west.
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S13S14Ethiopia's education system is in crisis - now's the time to fix it  In October 2023, Ethiopia’s minister of education, Berhanu Nega, disclosed several shocking figures on the outcomes of the 12th-grade national examination. Of the 3,106 schools that administered the 12th grade (secondary school leaving) examination for the 2022/23 academic year, 43% reported that none of their students had passed. And, for the second consecutive year, more than 96% of students who participated in the national school leaving examination scored less than the mark (an average of 50%) required to pass. This means that hundreds of thousands of students could not qualify for university education.
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S15S16S17What the autumn statement means for women - three economists explain  This year’s autumn statement was announced by the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, on Equal Pay Day – the day that UK women stop being paid when compared with men’s wages, due to the gender pay gap. It’s fitting then that the statement included some measures that could help working women – but in other areas, the government still isn’t going far enough.Traditional models of the economy were developed before mass female engagement in the labour market. Newer, more inclusive models better represent women’s experiences in the economy. It’s essential that women’s experiences are considered when setting economic policy to ensure it is fit for purpose.
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S18What the UK government's back to work plan covers - and why it is unlikely to boost people's job prospects  Ahead of the UK government’s latest economic statement, the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, and the secretary of state for work and pensions, Mel Stride, unveiled a new employment support package dubbed the back to work plan. The government’s aim is to support more than 1 million people who are either long-term unemployed or have long-term health conditions to (re)enter the workforce or remain in employment. The measures include providing additional individual support, particularly for those with health conditions, as well as revised benefit conditions and sanctions.
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S19The potential of psychedelics to heal our racial traumas  Clinical psychologist and professor Monnica Williams is on a mission to bring psychedelics to therapists’ offices to help people heal from their racial traumas. To do this, she’s jumping over some big hurdles.Judging from the colourful signs advertising mushrooms that we are seeing on our streets and the presence of psychedelics in pop culture, we are in the middle of a psychedelic renaissance. For example, in the TV program Transplant, a Syrian Canadian doctor experiencing trauma is treated by his psychiatrist with psilocybin therapy.
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S20Why the man-hating feminist is a myth -  As part of the “Women Against Feminism” campaign that launched in 2014, social media posts have featured young women holding placards with the message “I don’t need feminism because…” listing various reasons ranging from “I respect men” to “I am not a MAN-HATER”. This perception of misandry – a hatred of men - is perhaps the most prevalent and enduring stereotype about feminism. By this account, feminism is not really a movement to end sexism and bring about gender equality, but rather it is wholly concerned with dislike of men.
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S21S22S23Financial crises damage people's mental health - our global review shows who is worst affected  Financial crises are periods characterised for some by devastating losses of income, work, a certain future, and a stable family life. The effect on mental health can be catastrophic. But what does the evidence tell us about who is most at risk, and in what ways?But not everyone is affected equally. Your gender, age, job and whether you have a family are all key factors in determining how vulnerable you are to the stress and poor mental health associated with financial loss and insecurity.
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S24Autumn statement: what national insurance cuts and other changes mean for young people  At first glance, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement appears to reduce the tax burden, increase pay and make our lives a bit easier. But given the cost of living and other pressures, the big picture is not as pretty. If you’re a young professional, here’s what the changes could mean for you.Let’s start with your salary. The national living wage will increase from £10.42 to £11.44 per hour from April 2024 and be extended to all workers aged 21 and above. That’s an inflation beating rise of 12.4% if you’re between 21-23, and 9.8% if you’re older than 23. For those between 18-20, the hourly rate increases by a whopping 14% or £1.11, to £8.60 per hour.
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S25WeWork approached physical space as if it were virtual, which led to the company's downfall  On Nov. 6, the co-working firm WeWork filed for bankruptcy. WeWork, founded by Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey in 2010, had a simple business model: it signed long-term leases on urban buildings, fitting them out with modern work facilities. Then, it rented out desks, offices and meeting rooms to companies and freelancers seeking an easy-come, easy-go workplace.Yet Neumann promoted the firm as if it were a tech company, peppering his presentations with the buzzy language of Silicon Valley. He promised clients his offices would boost workers’ social interaction, leading to untold innovations. The company even developed an online social network, WeWork Commons.
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S26Gaza: what aid agencies can hope to achieve under the strict limits of the four-day humanitarian pause  The four-day humanitarian pause in Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip will be vital to allow humanitarian agencies into the stricken Palestinian enclave with much-needed supplies of food, water, fuel and medicine. But four days is a very short window to meet the vast humanitarian needs, given the damage wrought by more than a month of bombardment by the Israeli Defense Forces.For the first two weeks of Israel’s assault on Gaza, the strip was placed into a state of siege by Israel and access completely blocked. Since October 21, after calls from around the world for humanitarian pauses or a ceasefire, some aid has been allowed into the strip. But the 1,479 aid trucks that have been allowed in during this period represent only 14% of the monthly volume of commercial goods and humanitarian aid that was being delivered to Gaza prior to the conflict.
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S27S28S29How digital twins will enable the next generation of precision agriculture  Drastic climate change and overpopulation have rendered traditional agricultural practices unsustainable. Even more economically affluent countries suffer from constantly increasing household food insecurity. In Canada, for example, one-in-six families find it difficult to provide food to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle, and the situation is getting worst year by year.
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S30Ukraine recap: naval success raises hopes of advantage against Russia this winter  War in wintertime is especially challenging militarily. Troops have to deal with the risk of frostbite while vehicles can’t always move over muddy or frozen terrain. It’s no wonder then that wars tend to move much more slowly during the colder months.Cold weather can also open up opportunities that either side in a conflict can try to exploit. When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in November 1939, temperatures around -40ºC gave the much smaller Finnish force an advantage, forcing significant losses on the Soviets that significantly undermined their military reputation. Being agile, changing tactics, and having the right equipment for the weather are even more vital when the temperature drops.
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S31Potato growers can use AI to monitor and predict potato nutrition in real time  Ph.D. Candidate in Agriculture Science (Sensing and automation, Digital agriculture, Precision agriculture), Dalhousie University Potatoes are the premier vegetable crop in Canada, with $1.5 billion nationwide in potato receipts in 2021. The agricultural significance of potatoes is particularly prominent in provinces like New Brunswick, the home of McCain Foods Limited, the world’s largest potato processor.
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S32Friday essay: 'when the facts conflict with the legend' -  It would culminate in his celebrated “Edith trilogy”, which followed the League of Nations (a forerunner of the United Nations) from the 1920s through the 1940s, then the establishment of Canberra as our nation’s “Capitol” in the 1950s, through the fictional Edith Campbell Berry.In Wollongong, Frank discussed balancing what he called “the historical element” with the “the narrative element”. In his notes for that talk, he wrote: “When the facts conflict with the legend print the legend.”
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S33Drug resistance may make common infections like thrush untreatable  Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest global threats to health, food security and development. This month, The Conversation’s experts explore how we got here and the potential solutions.We’ve all heard about antibiotic resistance. This happens when bacteria develop strategies to avoid being destroyed by an antibiotic.
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S34S35S36Revisiting the Williams Treaties of 1923: Anishinaabeg perspectives after a century  One hundred years ago this November, the governments of Canada and Ontario signed treaties with First Nations of the Chippewa of Lake Simcoe (Beausoleil, Georgina Island and Rama) and the Mississauga of the north shore of Lake Ontario (Alderville, Curve Lake, Hiawatha and Scugog Island). The Williams Treaties (1923), also known as the Williams Treaty (named after Angus S. Williams, the provincial negotiator) pertained to over 20,000 square kilometers of land in exchange for a one-time cash payment of $25 per person.
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S37Alleged assassination plot against Sikh separatist could hamper India-U.S. relations  The United States government recently stated it had thwarted a plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in the U.S. and issued a warning to the Indian government. According to media reports, U.S. authorities say they successfully stopped a plot to assassinate Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil. Pannun is a U.S.-Canadian citizen and a prominent figure in the pro-Khalistan movement, which calls for establishing an independent Sikh state in northern India. White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson indicated that the administration is treating this issue with the utmost seriousness and noted it has been raised with India “at the senior-most levels.”
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S38S39S40S41S42S43Taste depends on nature and nurture. Here are 7 ways you can learn to enjoy foods you don't like  You’re out for dinner with a bunch of friends, one of whom orders pizza with anchovies and olives to share, but you hate olives and anchovies! Do you pipe up with your preferred choice – Hawaiian – or stay quiet?This scene plays out every day around the world. Some people ferociously defend their personal tastes. But many would rather expand their palate, and not have to rock the boat the next time someone in their friend group orders pizza.
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S44S45The exquisite physical comedy of Dirty Birds: a new Aussie post-COVID Theatre of the Absurd  Theatre is littered with sister double acts: Antigone and Ismene, Kate and Bianca, Blanche and Stella, Fleabag and Claire. The shared history of sisters delivers inbuilt emotional stakes and lots of baggage. The doubling of experience brings both love and rivalry, the joys of being known and the horrors of being trapped by the reflection of the other. Looking like not-quite twins, real-life sisters Hayley and Mandy McElhinney are the dirty birds of the title, in the world premiere of a co-written work in which they play reclusive sisters.With a broad resume of work on stage and screen, Dirty Birds is their debut play and the first time the McElhinney sisters have shared the stage. It wasn’t until COVID shut us all down that they found the time and space (on Zoom) to collaborate on the script, later developed with director Kate Champion.
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S46S47Southern African troops versus M23 rebels in the DRC: 4 risks this poses  The security situation in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to deteriorate. The region comprises North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri provinces. It’s about seven times the size of neighbouring Rwanda. The violence in North Kivu has drawn most of the attention of the DRC’s neighbours and the international community. This close attention is aimed at preventing possible confrontation between Rwanda and the DRC.
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S48Weird and wonderful things lost then found inside the human body  Doctors in Missouri recently made a startling discovery. A 63-year-old patient who went for a routine colon screening was found to have an intact fly in his colon. The doctors had no idea how the fly survived the perilous journey through the patient’s digestive enzymes and stomach acid.As a professor of anatomy, I come across many such stories of strange things found inside people – foreign bodies, we call them. Here is a roundup of some of them.
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S49Bradley Cooper: Conducting Is the "Scariest Thing I've Ever Done"  As a child, Bradley Cooper would mime conducting an orchestra, and he asked for a baton from Santa. Decades later, as a filmmaker, he fulfilled his childhood dreams in the acclaimed new film "Maestro." Cooper co-wrote and directed the movie, and co-stars as Leonard Bernstein, perhaps the greatest American conductor ever. In a pivotal scene, Cooper conducts the famous London Symphony Orchestra with a full chorus, in real time, through a performance of Mahler, which Cooper calls the "scariest thing I've ever done." But the movie focusses less on Bernstein's well-documented musical triumphs than on his extremely complicated personal life and marriageâas a proudly nonmonogamous bisexualâto the actress Felicia Montealegre, who is played in the film by Carey Mulligan. And, though aspects of shooting "Maestro" are the "scariest" things Cooper has ever done, he tells David Remnick: "This movie . . . I made absolutely fearlessly. And I knew I had to because that's a huge element in Bernstein's music. It is fearless."By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
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S50Pina Bausch's Enduring "The Rite of Spring"  It's that time of year again, when sugarplums and dancing snowflakesâand Tchaikovsky's iconic scoreâare as ubiquitous as harried parents at the mall. But what may feel unbearable blasted over the supermarket loudspeakers has yet to lose its charm in the theatre, especially when performed by a mix of professional dancers and well-trainedâand eagerâkids. Since 1954, when New York City Ballet first presented "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker"âinspired by the version that Balanchine danced as a ballet student in pre-Revolutionary St. Petersburgâhis has been the one to which all others are compared. (It plays at the David H. Koch Theatre, through Dec. 31.) The show's felicities include a transformation, in the blink of an eye, from Nutcracker to prince, a witty and refined solo for the Sugar Plum Fairy, and windswept choreography for Dewdrop in the "Waltz of the Flowers."But New York City is big enough for more than one "Nutcracker." "The Yorkville Nutcracker" (Kaye Playhouse, Dec. 14-17), by the avuncular dance teacher and choreographer Francis Patrelle, offers a homey renditionâset in New York in the late eighteen-hundreds, at the turn of the centuryâperformed by kids from ballet schools around town. In the roles of Sugar Plum and her partner are two dancers from City Ballet, the lithe Miriam Miller and the stalwart Tyler Angle. The many diverse cultures of New York are reflected in the lineup of "The Brooklyn Nutcracker" (Kings Theatre, Dec. 16), where the Rat King is portrayed by the krump virtuoso Brian (HallowDreamz) Henry, and a group of Ukrainian dancers performs a version of the traditional Ukrainian hopak. Sugar Plum and her beau are played by Ingrid Silva, of Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Dylan Santos.
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S51Amazon Just Quietly Released the Best Zombie Thriller of the Year  This inventive sequel brings the Necronomicon to a condemned apartment building. Madness quickly ensues.It’s been a weird year for horror movies. While films like M3GAN and Insidious: The Red Door have emerged as unlikely box office hits, the actual number of incredible horror titles has remained shockingly low. That’s even truer for this year’s horror sequels, which include disappointing movies like The Exorcist: Believer and The Nun 2, both of which fall short of the mark.
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S5220 Years Ago, Sonic the Hedgehog Got the Strangest Spinoff Game Ever  The Sonic the Hedgehog series has never been afraid of taking risks. Starting as a 2D platformer, it took a strange turn to an overhead perspective for Sonic 3D Blast, then moved fully into three dimensions with Sonic Adventure, which also featured a full creature-raising minigame. Then there’s the infamous 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog, which featured a genuinely upsetting cutscene of Dr. Robotnik bombing a city and the arguably just-as-upsetting scene of a human woman smooching Sonic.Even in all of that, Sonic Spinball is a wild turn. Released in 1993, it revolves around Sonic infiltrating Dr. Robotnik’s base, which is protected by a defense system that looks suspiciously like a giant pinball machine. Really, it’s just a pinball game. Aside from the characters, it’s got nothing to do with Sonic at all.
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S53S54Disney's Vacuous New Movie Proves Its Harshest Critics Are Right  Wish tries to put Disney back on the map — but in the age of Spider-Verse, is there room for the brand’s traditional house style?If you’ve seen any of the animated features in Disney’s sprawling back catalog, then you’ve already seen Wish. The company’s latest is not so much a film as it is a highlight reel of their greatest hits, a Disney expo turned Easter egg hunt that rewards even the most casual fan.
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S553D Movies Failed. Apple Vision Pro Will Bring Them Back.  Whether professionally made or shot with an iPhone 15 Pro, 3D videos and movies are set to return from the dead... again.3D movies don’t have the cultural cache they used to. Avatar: The Way of Water’s $2.3 billion in global earnings might suggest otherwise, but when you look at the available ways to actually watch James Cameron’s epic in 3D at home... it’s clear there’s not a lot of interest from TV makers to enable it or demand from anyone watching to make it happen.
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S56Con O'Neill Reveals Whether He Would Return to 'Our Flag Means Death': "It Has to Be Right"  In the wake of Max Original Our Flag Means Death Season 2, showrunner David Jenkins described telling the actor about his character’s death over dinner and cake. For O’Neill, it wasn’t that much of a shock, but the cake was still needed to soften the blow.“I got an email halfway through shooting from David saying, ‘Are you free for dinner tonight?’” O’Neill tells Inverse. “And if you get a text from your showrunner midway through shooting saying ‘Do you want to come for dinner?’ It's never going to be good news. So I asked if it was a good dinner or bad dinner. He explained what it was and I said, ‘Okay, you're paying for dinner and I'm going to have cake.’”
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S57Physicists Are Racing To Pinpoint the Origin of An Extremely Energetic Cosmic Ray  An incredibly fast-moving particle from space recently arrived on Earth, and physicists are rushing to figure out what it is and where it came from.Called the Amaterasu particle, after the Shinto goddess whose name means “The Great Divinity That Illuminates Heaven,” is one of several mystery particles, called ultra-high energy cosmic rays that physicists have detected in the past few decades.
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S58Amazon Dropped These Amazing Black Friday Deals & They're Selling Out Quickly  Shopping season is well under way, and with popular items selling out quickly, you don’t want to miss out on impressive markdowns. BDG’s commerce editors have your back — below, we’ve rounded up the most epic deals across tech, home, and more.These smart plugs have a unique and extra-compact shape, so you stack two of them in the same outlet. They have a power button on the side, or you can control them with an app while you're out. They also come with easy timer options, and you can even set up schedules for them.
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S59Apple's Biggest Sci-Fi Series Will Never Use This Star Trek Trick, Showrunners Vow  If you’ve got a sci-fi epic that spans decades, and includes several generations of characters, then certain characters will naturally stop appearing on the show. For All Mankind Season 4 takes place in 2003 and we’re down to only three cast members from Season 1, with some uncertainty about how long they’ll last into Season 5. But For All Mankind is a science fiction show, so surely there could be creative ways of bringing back actors for future seasons, even if there are several time jumps involved, right? In other words, couldn’t For All Mankind stick Ed Baldwin in suspended animation and have him wake up hundreds of years in the future — just like Khan in Star Trek?As Season 4 marches on, and a few familiar faces return, showrunners Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert are resolute about which sci-fi tropes the show will never touch.
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S60Can This Bizarre, Unlikely Treatment Finally Reverse Smell Loss From Covid-19?  It’s unclear why stellate ganglion block works, but it is helping some people with long Covid regain their sense of smell. There is no worse fate for someone who loves food than losing their sense of smell. But it’s become an increasingly unfortunate reality for many who’ve had a bout of Covid-19 and are struggling with its persisting aftereffects. In fact, one recent study estimates that over 20 million Americans lost their sense of smell (or taste) in 2021 and that five million have only partially recovered or haven’t recovered at all.
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S6150 Years Ago, the Longest-Running Sci-Fi Show Ever Invented a Brilliant Storytelling Trick  When Doctor Who debuted in 1963, the notion of what constituted an “episode” of a BBC TV show didn’t resemble how we think about sci-fi television now. Starting with “An Unearthly Child” on Nov. 23, 1963, and all the way through “Survival” in 1989, Doctor Who was punctuated by two things: really low budget monsters and a ton of cliffhangers. In fact, because each installment in classic Who stories is always a 30-minute part of an overall serial, there’s a stop-and-go quality to these classic adventures that can seem a bit jarring for the modern viewer. That fact, combined with some of the less-than-stellar effects can, sometimes, occasionally, undercut the brilliance of the long-running show. Plus, with so many early William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton episodes incomplete or missing, getting the overall picture of the early Doctor is tricky for the contemporary fan.However, since 1973, there has been a solution to all of these challenges: the long-running line of Doctor Who novels. In almost every conceivable way, the classic Doctor Who books provide a brilliant and in-depth way to journey into the earliest days of the Whoinverse, which many longtime fans and writers have long recognized as sometimes being superior to what we got on screen.
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S62Ethical values can be both objective and yet without a foundation | Aeon Essays  is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, and a Laurance S Rockefeller visiting faculty fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. He is the author of Pragmatist Quietism: A Meta-Ethical System (2022).Many academic fields can be said to ‘study morality’. Of these, the philosophical sub-discipline of normative ethics studies morality in what is arguably the least alienated way. Rather than focusing on how people and societies think and talk about morality, normative ethicists try to figure out which things are, simply, morally good or bad, and why. The philosophical sub-field of meta-ethics adopts, naturally, a ‘meta-’ perspective on the kinds of enquiry that normative ethicists engage in. It asks whether there are objectively correct answers to these questions about good or bad, or whether ethics is, rather, a realm of illusion or mere opinion.
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