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‘Operation Protective Edge’ was launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 in response to rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza. By the time the military operation had ended, more than 2,100 Gazans were reported dead, including 150 people killed during a bombardment of the Palestinian city of Rafah on 1 August. Working with Amnesty International, a research team at Goldsmiths, University of London created a 3D model of the bombardment using video shot by Gazans. Forensic Architects dissects the research team’s efforts to reconstruct the attack and determine if war crimes were committed.
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Human rights and justice
Surreal, dazzling visuals form an Iranian expat’s tribute to defiance back home
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Language and linguistics
Do button-pushing dogs have something new to say about language?
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Values and beliefs
Why a single tree, uprooted in a typhoon, means so much to one man in Hanoi
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War and peace
Two Ukrainian boys’ summer unfolds just miles from the frontlines
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Why large language models are mysterious – even to their creators
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Fairness and equality
‘To my old master’ – a freed slave answers the request to return to his old plantation
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Ethics
Plato saw little value in privacy. How do his ideas hold up in the information age?
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Information and communication
‘Astonished and somewhat terrified’ – Victorians’ reactions to the phonograph
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Family life
One family’s harrowing escape from postwar Vietnam, told in a poignant metaphor
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