Robert Baird
Journalist, filmmaker about the nation's capital. Formerly Darwin, Perth, Melbourne, Dili, Washington etc etc.
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Politik : „Es gibt ein tiefes Geheimnis“: Das ist der Mann, der Google vor der eigenen KI warnt
Als DeepMind 2017 den Philosophen Iason Gabriel einstellte, konnten viele das nicht nachvollziehen: Wozu braucht eine von Ingenieuren dominierte Branche einen Ethiker? Heute steckt sein Denken in jedem Gespräch mit Gemini.
A Day in Tarifa: Pittsburgh Guitarist John Shannon
entertainment news 4 hours ago Black Sabbath wrote an entire 1975 album about hating their manager: “Ripping us off” faroutmagazine.co.uk - Tim Coffman • 4h It tends to be a dog-eat-dog world for anyone in the music industry.
‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a job at DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Google where much of its AI research was concentrated. The suggestion was not an obvious one. Gabriel was a cheerful but intense junior academic with a passion for Vipassana meditation and what his brother calls "enthusiastic" rock climbing.
Recording of July 2026: Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane
1:58 3 days ago The Beatles: The Real Reason Behind Their Breakup Unbranded - unbranded - Entertainment • 3d The Beatles changed music forever. But despite their unprecedented success, the foursome's shocking breakup has remained one of rock's biggest mysteries for decades. Over the years, many have pointed the finger at John Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, while others have blamed growing tensions and business disputes behind the scenes.
Don Dixon, Coproducer of R.E.M.'s Murmur and Reckoning
Simone Biles 1 hour ago Simone Biles, 29, Is in Recovery After "Almost Dying" From an Unexpected Health Complication: "Scariest Experience of My Life" InStyle - Chanel Vargas • 1h "Almost dying wasn't on my bingo card earlier this week." Simone Biles, 29, is in recovery after suffering an unexpected health scare. On June 6, Biles took to her Instagram Stories to recount a near-death experience that resulted in a trip to the hospital. "I'm not one to normally share things like …
Tax Strategies for Canadian Musicians
Canadian musicians who independently contract their services and operate a music business are considered self-employed entrepreneurs (sole proprietors) for tax purposes. Musicians can reduce their tax bills considerably by claiming business expenses related to earning money as a musician. However, the expenses you claim cannot exceed your income, so you may not be able to claim all the deductions allowed.
Canberra bar declared a crime scene as police seize 'clearly satirical' posters under new Commonwealth hate laws
Police have seized five posters from the window of a Canberra bar, declaring the venue a crime scene and forcing it to close while officers investigate a possible breach of new Commonwealth hate laws. Warning: Images in this story may cause offence. Dissent Cafe and Bar in Canberra's CBD has had images depicting Donald Trump, J.D Vance, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin dressed in Nazi-like uniforms on display in the front window for several weeks.
The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
Clockwise from top left ; Shipbuilding in China, nurse with PPE gear, Chinese wind farm, T34 tanks in Red Square, President Donald Trump, Adam Tooze, traders during the 2000s financial crisis, President Xi Jinping.Composite: Artwork by Guardian Design.
God of the Gaps | Robert P. Baird
There’s a view of the human situation that goes something like this: 14 billion years ago, give or take, the universe exploded into being. The Big Bang didn’t create everything, but it did provide everything necessary to create everything else: a collection of immutable physical laws, a hot soup of subatomic particles, an unthinkably vast quantity of energy. After 10 billion or so years of expansion and cooling, the universe contained some trillion trillion stars, and at least as many planets.
The Nimbus
Editor Baird debuts with a satirical take on academia and the metaphysical. The story centers on Adrian Bennett, a professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School (Baird holds a PhD from the same institution), and his two-year-old son, Luca, a toddler who has begun to emit a supernatural glow. Adrian attempts to leverage his son’s halo for his own benefit while navigating the politics of academia and the drama in his relationships.
Aura et labora
Late in the first half of The Nimbus, Robert P. Baird’s debut novel, a professor of religion unloads a rant’s worth of advice on the graduate student he’s advising. The student needs a new dissertation topic, and the professor is waving him away from the topic he’s proposed.
15 FOR 50 1975 IN 15 RECORDS
Stereophile | November 2025 WAS IT SOMETHING IN THE AIR, SOMETHING IN THE WATER? COSMICALLY INSPIRED BY THE STARS AND THE MOON? OR MAYBE THE DEVIL WAS FINALLY CLAIMING HIS OWN AS ROCK MUSIC IN ALL ITS VARIANTS WAS UNASSAILABLY ASCENDENT. A more temporal reason why 1975 was such a rich year for music is that by the middle 1970s, audio engineers had mastered the arts of recording on multiple channels and cutting and editing tape. Even more crucially, the profit motive still existed in music.
Doing it for themselves—and for us | Stereophile - technology - Read this story on Magzter.com
Stereophile | November 2025 Women have undeniably become the most dynamic and vital creative force in music today. Without their good energies and ideas, music, which in the digital age has become more background than art, would be much less interesting and inspiring. Many and perhaps most of today’s popular-music superstars are women: Beyoncé, Adele, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, and of course Taylor Swift.
Rollin' with Leo
Stereophile | August 2025 Horn players were always the show ponies of bebop. While drummer Art Blakey, pianist Thelonious Monk, and other instrumentalists were also powerful pioneers, it was the saxophonists, building on the legacy of the great Charlie Parker, who've come to symbolize this once-hated, now-revered form of jazz. While the tenors and altos got the lion's share of saxophone glory, baritone players also made their mark, on bebop and also swing.
Bruce Springsteen's later-career back catalog
Stereophile | August 2025 Seeing Bruce Springsteen perform live in the 1970s and early '80s, pre-Born in the U.S.A., could be a life-changing experience. Bruce was the hungry leader of a relentless, turn-on-a-dime R&B band. A burning star streaking across the rock'n'roll sky, he threw his fiery young self into maximum shows full of urgency (to invoke one of his best rhymes) and those wordy, anthemic pleading/strutting urban fairy tales.
Interdisciplinary Magic: What the Humanities Can Reveal About Scientific Pursuits
I arrived at Stanford in the fall of 1996 with every intention of becoming a mechanical engineer and none of being a writer. Though I’d been a voracious reader since childhood, my tastes steered wide of anything that looked too literary. In elementary school I loved Madeleine L’Engle, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. In junior high I read every airport blockbuster by Tom Clancy, John Grisham, and Michael Crichton that I could get my hands on.
Faster adaptation but slower divergence of X chromosomes under paternal genome elimination - Nature Communications
Abstract Differences in transmission and ploidy between sex chromosomes and autosomes drive divergent evolutionary trajectories, with sex chromosomes generally evolving faster. Because sex-linked genes are transmitted less frequently, they are under less efficient selection. Conversely, exposure of recessive mutations on haploid sex chromosomes creates more efficient selection. In most systems, these effects occur simultaneously and are confounded.
Triff die Robinsons
» Skurril amüsanter Jux für Jung und Alt « Waisenkind Lewis hat die Hoffnung auf eine Adoption längst aufgegeben, da taucht der schräge Wilbur Robinson bei ihm auf. Er nimmt den kleinen Erfinder auf eine abenteuerliche Zeitreise mit, wo sie es mit den fiesen Killermelonen zu tun bekommen - wo aber vielleicht auch eine neue Familie auf den Knirps warten könnte... Stephen J. Anderson Jordan Fry (Lewis (voce)), Stephen J.
AI giving voice to those silenced by a disease shockingly common in parts of the NT
It's been 10 years since Jenny Baird has been able to speak freely to her son. Like his father before him, Northern Territory man Daniel Lalara has Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), which has slowly stolen his ability to speak and his independence. Indigenous readers are advised that this article contains the name and image of a person who has died, used with the permission of his family.
In 1917, 3 Portuguese Children Saw the Virgin. The Rest Is Top-Secret.
Trump Tariff Plunge: 3 Phenomenal Stocks to Buy at Bargain Prices Right Now Just because Wall Street has proved to be a superior wealth creator over the long run doesn't mean stocks are impervious to bouts of volatility. Since President Donald Trump announced his "Liberation Day" tariffs on April 2, we've witnessed some of the wildest swings in the Dow Jones Industrial …
Sun Ra Times Two
“I don’t think Metallica wants to say I am an original member”: Why Metallica’s forgotten guitarist believes he isn’t considered the heavy metal legends’ OG guitar player Metallica has had its fair share of musicians enter and depart the lineup over the years, but while the likes of Cliff Burton, Dave Mustaine and …
New Cyclone Tracy exhibition opens in Darwin ahead of 50th anniversary
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory has opened its renewed Cyclone Tracy exhibition. The display has been redeveloped ahead of the 50th anniversary of the natural disaster. A replica Holden Torana adorned with infamous graffiti is one of dozens of new items at the exhibition.
The Nimbus a book by Robert P. Baird
(Author) FORMAT Pre-Order Ships Jun 10, 2025 Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description A brilliant debut novel about a child whose literal enlightenment sets the stage for an exuberant tragicomedy of marriage, religion, and parenthood.
You're Only Lonely, JD Souther Passes
1 hour ago Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of sodomising stuntman Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted a Robocop stuntman while luring him to star in a music video. The shocking lawsuit is one … 5 hours ago ‘The Voice’ Star Quits Show, Abandons Gwen Stefani’s Team on Final Night of Knockouts Round Another one bites the dust, as a second The Voice contestant unpredictably departs from the show, abandoning his coach Gwen Stefani amid the season’s …
NT government names first 'Territory Coordinator' months ahead of controversial new laws coming before parliament
The NT's Country Liberal Party (CLP) government has appointed a former NT Inpex boss as its interim "Territory Coordinator" in a bid to fast-track private investment. Environmental groups and the Labor opposition say the move gives the government and coordinator "extraordinary powers" to sidestep important safeguards. The draft laws are currently open for consultation and are expected to be passed by the CLP-majority NT parliament in March next year.
Recording of December 2024: Faces at the BBC
5 hours ago When 1990s girl group SWV visited the Tiny Desk during Black Music Month 2024, we began thinking about the legacy, evolution and current state of the Black girl group. It seems like we weren't the only ones. In various pockets of social media we found people asking a common question, "Where are the …
November 2024 Rock/Pop Record Reviews
Exclusive: Juilliard professor is caught in the act - Slippedisc We gather that Juilliard has summarily fired a professor of violin after he was caught in what is said to be ‘a lewd act’. Apart from two witnesses …
Maternal inheritance of primary sex ratios in the dark-winged fungus gnat Lycoriella ingenua
Abstract Sex determination mechanisms in insects are extraordinarily diverse, although most species have zygotic genotypic sex determination where sex is established by sex chromosomes upon fertilisation. Dark-winged fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) are a large and speciose family of flies where sex determination is a result of an unusual interplay of zygotic, maternal, and environmental factors.
Paternal genome elimination, monogenic reproduction, and the evolutionary genetics of atypical sex chromosome systems
Abstract Sex chromosomes differ from autosomes in both their ploidy and transmission genetics. Consequently, selection, mutation, and drift may act differently upon them, driving distinct patterns in genetic divergence, diversity, and gene content. Recently, researchers have begun to consider a wider set of organisms with non-standard inheritance and sex-determination systems, however in many cases we lack theory which extends to such cases.
Die Monster AG (S1/F1) im TV Programm: 25.10.
» Da muss sich niemand abschrecken lassen! « Beschreibung Der zottelige blaue Hüne Sulley und das giftgrüne Glupschauge Mike sind als Meister ihres Faches bekannt. Die beiden Monster können Menschenkinder unheimlich gut erschrecken und ihnen Angstschreie entlocken, die zur Stromerzeugung im Monsterreich gebraucht werden. Dann aber verheddert sich ein Kind im Pelz von Sulley und gelangt mit ihm nach Monstropolis... Zum Serienprofil Darsteller Weitere Folgen 25.
St. Ambrose Catholic School Releases 2024-2025 First Quarter Honor Roll, High Honor Roll
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Album of the Week: Nubya Garcia | Qobuz MAGAZINE
Saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia expands her musical horizons on Odyssey, blending jazz, Afrobeat, and orchestral arrangements with powerful collaborations and a bold, exploratory spirit. Nubya Garcia is charting a bold and exciting path forward as one of the stars of the increasingly hybridized jazz world.
Die Monster Uni (S1/F2) im TV Programm: 20.09. - 20:15 - Disney Channel
» Schröckliches summa cum laude « Beschreibung Auch Monster können noch viel lernen. Doch an der Monster Universität hängt der Haussegen schief, denn Mike und Sulley sind vom ersten Tag an erbitterte Feinde. Mit ihrem Wettkampf um den schreckenerregensten Auftritt machen sie nicht nur einander, sondern auch allen anderen Monsterstudenten das Leben schwer. Bevor die Universitätsleitung die Streithähne herauswirft, sollen sie noch eine allerletzte Chance bekommen. Ob sie sie nutzen?
Baymax - Riesiges Robowabohu
» Cool und witzig: ein Spektakel mit Gefühl « Beschreibung Hiro Hamada liebt Roboter über alles. Der technikbegeisterte Junge ist so verrückt nach ihnen, dass er als Experte in diesem Bereich in ganz San Fransokyo bekannt ist. Auch sein bester Freund ist ein Roboter - und wer glaubt, die hätten kein Herz, der kennt Baymax noch nicht! Der sieht nicht nur aus wie ein Marshmallow, sondern ist auch mindestens genauso süß.
Hollywood Records' 3-LP Queen Rocks Montreal
Ask an average teenager today whether they can name a Led Zeppelin song and you’ll most likely get an eye roll and a disengaged stare. The same phenomenon occurs when the Rolling Stones and, yes, even the Beatles are mentioned. One of the only exceptions to this pervasive “old band” rule is Queen. They have somehow stayed alive and risen above the classic-rock abyss.
Revinylization #56: Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard, Made New
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Album of the Week: Hiatus Kaiyote | Qobuz MAGAZINE
Step into “future soul” with the fourth album from the Aussie group who break down all barriers. Played with great precision and talent, Hiatus Kaiyote’s self-described “Future Soul”—a blend of funk, electronica, and soul—feels improvised and forever fresh. Best known for the songwriting and voice of Naomi “Nai Palm” Saalfield, Australia’s Hiatus Kaiyote has fully become a band of equals.
Kamasi Washington's Fearless Movement
As an ambitious creator of new musical worlds, visionary saxophonist Kamasi Washington wants to understand and proclaim the power of love. He wants to come to terms with his mortality. He wants to make people dance. And he certainly wants people to stop hating on jazz.
Diagnosis and management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: a 2023 update from the Canadian Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Collaborative
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AI Assist: Advising, Teaching, and Career Prep for College of Engineering Students
Feb 8, 2024, 10:17 AM Photo: Grainger College of Engineering Professor Jonathan Makela appears on CITL's Teach, Talk, Listen Learn podcast. By Robert Baird, Senior Associate Director at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning Like much of the academic world, The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois has been exploring the potential of generative AI for teaching, learning, and research.
Is the CD making a comeback?
According to music data compiler MRC Data, sales of CDs increased from 40.16 million units in 2020 to 40.59 million in 2021, marking the first time CD sales have increased on a year-over-year basis since 2004. During the same time, vinyl album sales increased by a massive 50.4%. Also in 2021, vinyl saw its single largest sales week since 1991, when 2.11 million vinyl albums were sold the week of December 23.
'A kick in the guts': Customer frustration with Bonza continues following cancellations
As budget airline Bonza frustrates customers by further delaying the commencement of its Darwin-Gold Coast route, one customer says the startup airline has failed to refund his family within the company's pledged time frame.
Read Script By Robert L. Baird & Lloyd Taylor – Deadline - Jaun Baba
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Nimona, Netflix‘s animated feature based on ND Stevenson’s 2015 National Book Award-nominated graphic novel about finding friendship in the most surprising situations and accepting yourself and others for who they are. Nick Bruno and Troy Quane (co-directors of Spies In Disguise) directed the film, which was adapted by Big Hero 6 scribe Robert L.
NT government criticised over major project delivery after Core Lithium suspends works
The Northern Territory government is facing criticism over the slow progress of major projects in the territory, after Core Lithium last week became the latest company to suspend long-promised works.
Genetic drift drives faster-Z evolution in the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis
Abstract Sex chromosome evolution is a particularly complex sub-field of population genetics and there are still unresolved questions about how quickly and adaptively these chromosomes should evolve compared to autosomes. One key limitation to existing knowledge is an intense focus on only a handful of taxa in existing literature, resulting in uncertainty about whether observed patterns reflect general processes or are idiosyncratic to the more widely studied clades.
Diagnosis and management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: a 2023 update from the Canadian Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Collaborative
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The expanding power of women in jazz
"The Hissing of Summer Lawns" is where the pair really dig in, pausing in the middle for an early, mildly free jazz climax. Jaffe's Midwest accent becomes obvious here on her pronunciation of words like "barbed wire." But this is clearly one of the album's highlights. "River", opened by Carolyn Dutton's violin and Herzig's piano, is another uniquely creative arrangement, brought to life as Jaffe leans into the song emotionally.
Annapurna Animation Unveils ‘Stray’ Feature Adaptation And Chris Wedge’s Next Feature, ‘FOO’
Annapurna Animation outlined its growing slate of projects today and unveiled a pair of executive hirings. The company is putting together a Blue Sky Studios reunion of sorts. Annapurna launched its dedicated animation division last year under the leadership of former Disney animation and Blue Sky executives Robert Baird and Andrew Millstein. Its first production was the former Blue Sky film Nimona.
Perioperative management of infant inguinal hernia surgery; a review of the recent literature
Abstract Inguinal hernia surgery is one of the most common electively performed surgeries in infants. The common nature of inguinal hernia combined with the high-risk population involving a predominance of preterm infants makes this a particular area of interest for those concerned with their perioperative care.
Nimona agita embate clássico de heróis e vilões ao questionar convenções
Créditos da imagem: Nimona/Netflix/Reprodução Animação vai além do conto do azarão e cria uma representação tocante da experiência queer Uma pergunta persegue a adorável metamorfa Nimona (Chloë Grace Moretz) por onde quer que vá: “O que é você?”. A questão seria razão de angústia para qualquer um — afinal, os dilemas existenciais nos assombram. Na animação, porém, trata-se de uma interrogação menos filosófica e mais literal, uma sugestão sutil de que faltaria humanidade à personagem.
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