Charles Ellingworth

It is rather strange being at the epicentre of an economic earthquake.  The thing that is so unsettling is the sheer normality of ev...

Xi Jinping is the most powerful man on earth. He has more direct power over more people (1.3 billion) than anyone else - and is consolidat...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole 12 billion times more massive than our sun, in the early universe. The object is at the centr...

Apparently China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than America did in the whole 20th century. This is incredible - but the figures ar...

I read this article in the FT. It is a the very best sort of review/essay that looks at the possibility of Artificial Super Intelligence an...

I saw Still Alice last week - a remarkable film With Julienne Moore as an articulate academic dealing with early onset Alzheimers. It is pa...

Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams have just lost a case in America to the estate of Marvin Gaye who claimed that Blurred Lines (if you h...