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Five Books features in-depth author interviews recommending five books on a theme. You can read more interviews on the site , or sign up for the newsletter . Knitting provides a slow, screen-free creative outlet, and opens up a wealth of style choices that you can’t buy on the high street.

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Sheet.Works | 8th October 2026 Timezones, JavaScript, compression, photos on Android phones, alphabet legibility in languages like Hindi, Arabic and Tamil — all of these work in the digital realm because of mostly uncompensated work done by a small handful of coders. Much of the world's online timezone infrastructure, for instance, functions because of a text file that a UCLA lecturer updates in his spare time (3,200 words) Puzzle: Play Nomido, the Browser’s daily word game.

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David Oks | Asterisk | 7th October 2026 India built a highly competitive services sector, gaining a reputation as the "world’s back office". This accounts for roughly seven per cent of the country's GDP and a quarter of its total exports.

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Henry Oliver | Liberty Fund | 5th October 2026 Formal logic is no prerequisite for philosophy, which begins “in a curiosity of the world and a willingness not just to question it, but to test it directly. We become philosophical as we become interested in knowing the qualities and limits of the world and ourselves.” Locke’s writing shows him at play, testing ideas against experience.

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