Angus Taylor, Author at BEST Futures

Inventing Hindu supremacy

Feb 27, 2024 | Articles, History

Vinayak Savarkar ridiculed Gandhi, preaching that anti-Muslim violence was the only means to unite India into a nation.

The two women behind a world-changing scientific discovery

Feb 22, 2024 | Science, Video

The short film Good Chemistry takes viewers behind the scenes and beyond the headlines of the CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough.

Inside the new science of history

Feb 20, 2024 | History

Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask.

Frontier AI ethics

Feb 13, 2024 | Articles

Generative agents will change our society in weird, wonderful, and worrying ways. Can philosophy help us get a grip on them?

World’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit

Feb 8, 2024 | News

For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU’s climate service. This breach doesn’t break the Paris agreement, but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term.