Can you solve it? The simple question almost everyone gets wrong | Mathematics

 Posted on June 26, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  643 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzleMathematicsCan you solve it? The simple question almost everyone gets wrongThe stencil puzzle that revolutionised IQ testing UPDATE: The answers can be read here Today’s puzzles are an intelligence test for children invented a century ago by an American psychologist, Grace Arthur. You will be presented with a patterned square. The challenge is to work out how to create this square by placing some of the available stencils and coloured blocks on top of each other. [Read More]

Once upon a time in Mulberry Street New York recalls romance of its past

 Posted on June 26, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1223 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The ObserverNew YorkOn the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a new exhibition traces the roots of the city’s energyMulberry Street, Manhattan, circa 1900 and 2015.Operate the slider above to see the street then and now. Photographs: Jacob Riis/Detroit Publishing Co/Library of Congress; Jeff Chien-Hsing LiaoThere can be no more iconic photograph of Manhattan at its teeming, turn of the 20th century peak than the image of Mulberry Street taken by the famed documentarian Jacob Riis in 1900. [Read More]

The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd review

 Posted on June 26, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  732 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Nicholas Lezard's choicePaperbacksReviewNan Shepherd's prose is as bracing as water from a mountain streamHow close I came to overlooking this book. From a heap of neglected and not-so-neglected works resurrected by Canongate, I chose this because it looked like the runt of the litter. And what kind of a serious writer calls herself "Nan"? But there was an anonymous quote from this very newspaper on the back: "The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain. [Read More]

Tina Turner to Cindy Crawford: icons shot by Richard Avedon in pictures | Art and design

 Posted on June 26, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  730 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Tina Turner to Cindy Crawford: icons shot by Richard Avedon – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email To celebrate 100 years since the renowned American photographer’s birth, famous names pick their favourite images – of Malcolm X, Marilyn Monroe and more Pejman Faratin Main image: Cindy’s favourite … Cindy Crawford’s shoot for Versace, 1994 Wed 7 Jun 2023 02. [Read More]

A wild baggy green chase? The mystery of David Warners missing caps | Cricket Australia

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  664 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Taken by mistake? In storage? Delivered to the wrong room? David Warner’s baggy greens have been returned but the mystery remains. Photograph: Pete Dovgan/Speed Media/REX/ShutterstockTaken by mistake? In storage? Delivered to the wrong room? David Warner’s baggy greens have been returned but the mystery remains. Photograph: Pete Dovgan/Speed Media/REX/ShutterstockCricket AustraliaA wild baggy green chase? The mystery of David Warner’s missing capsAfter the cricketer made a nationwide plea for their return, the caps were found in a ‘half-coffin’ cricket bag. [Read More]

Ghostface Killah's ruckus with Action Bronson is a classic Wu-Tang moment | Rap

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  906 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

RapGhostface Killah's ruckus with Action Bronson is a classic Wu-Tang momentThe pair clashed after Bronson suggested Ghostface might not be the force he once was, but his diss track via video response shows Tony Starks has still got it Action Bronson is a doughy Queens rapper in his early 30s who used to be a chef. He’s one of the most popular underground rappers working, known for his oft-hilarious, ever-whimsical wordplay. [Read More]

Recommended browsers | Accessibility | The Guardian

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  192 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

AccessibilityRecommended browsersCouldn’t find what you were looking for? Click here to access our Help site Why do we recommend browsers?Our site uses modern web standards to give the best possible reading experience for our visitors. Although we aim to be readable on all possible devices and browsers, not all are capable of running the full set of features. Therefore, we currently provide the opportunity to disable certain behaviours while retaining the core group of navigation, article and video content. [Read More]

Ricky Gervais's ballad of Reading jail

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1575 words  |  Kary Bruening

Ricky GervaisWith their new film Cemetery Junction, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant wanted to create a classic British tale of smalltown escape. Ben Walters goes on set and hears how they left irony behindThe pavement outside Victoria House, an imposing interwar office building on Bloomsbury Square in central London, is cluttered with bins, bikes and bus-stop signs from the 1970s. In the square, men in pale-blue dinner jackets, extravagantly frilled shirts and bravura sideburns stroll in the July sun, talking on their mobile phones. [Read More]

The Guardian view on spoken word poets: powerful voices that are needed today | Editorial

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  617 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

OpinionForward prize for poetry This article is more than 6 months oldThe Guardian view on spoken word poets: powerful voices that are needed todayThis article is more than 6 months oldEditorialTraditionally looked down on by the poetry establishment, those specialising in performance deserve their new chance to shine News that one of the UK’s leading poetry prizes is introducing a category for spoken word artists is as welcome as it is overdue. [Read More]

US supreme court to consider Starbucks case over fired pro-union workers | Starbucks

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  440 words  |  Kary Bruening

StarbucksUS supreme court to consider Starbucks case over fired pro-union workersCourt agrees to consider challenge by coffee chain to judicial decision requiring it to rehire seven union activists in Tennessee The US supreme court agreed to consider a challenge by Starbucks to a judicial decision requiring the world’s largest coffee chain to rehire seven union activists in Memphis, Tennessee. A federal agency determined the workers were fired for supporting unionization. [Read More]