‘Disgustingly educated’: will this trend make you cleverer?

Amateur conservationist and social media influencer Theerasak 'Pop' Saksritawee has a rare bond with Thailand’s critically endangered dugongs. With dugong fatalities increasing, Pop works alongside scientists at Phuket Marine Biological…

Bananas contain nutrients, but rotting peel smells and attracts fruit fliesThe problem Do you ever finish your smoothie, look at the peel and think: “Surely this could feed something?” You are not alone: social media is full of claims that…

Musician who drove much of the band’s ferocious sound and co-wrote many of its biggest hits was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2023Rob Hirst was a force of nature, a born showman who led Midnight Oil from the backRob Hirst, the…

Shepherd’s Bush Empire, LondonDespite never being a huge pop force after her years as Disney star Lizzie McGuire, fans come from Brazil and Saudi Arabia for Duff’s charming, self-deprecating returnIt’s fair to say that US…

In this larky autofiction, the ups and downs of creative life are cartoonishly dramatised as the writer becomes an action heroRob Doyle’s previous novel, Threshold, took the form of a blackly comic travelogue narrated by an Irish…

Ivan Sautkin films efforts to help residents abandon their frontline homes, as well as a pensioner acting as a spy for the Ukrainian army from the Russian borderThere is a scene in this Ukrainian documentary in which a woman gruffly shrugs…

Emojis explode all over the screen in this hyperactive adaptation of a Japanese folk tale about a princess who has run away from the moonNever has a film been more deserving of an exclamation mark at the end of the title than this…

Holiday marked with parades and services but tempered by anxieties over racial and social equality under TrumpMartin Luther King Jr Day was marked with parades and services across the US on Monday. But the celebration for the achievements…