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Free improvisation: still the ultimate in underground music?
Pioneered in the 1950s by musicians breaking the rules of jazz and composition, free improvisation is still as difficult – and potentially transcendent – as it ever was. A Guardian documentary takes you inside its world, talking to...
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Why self-driving cars have stalled
Fully fledged self-driving technology appears to be pepetually just around the corner. It is a promise that the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, has made almost every year since 2013. But in the real world, it is still an open question...
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Have we reached peak filler? - explainer
The UK has been going wild for cosmetic dermal fillers in recent years. Popularised by US celebrities such as Kylie Jenner, ordinary women across the country are also getting in on the look and using dermal fillers to create artificially...
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Kung Fu Family
In the video series ‘My People’, Guardian Australia explores the peculiar subcultures and niche communities bringing people together across the country. With the breakdown of more traditional communities, these new groups of shared...
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Going Medieval
n the video series My People, Guardian Australia explores the peculiar subcultures and niche communities bringing people together across the country. With the breakdown of more traditional communities, these new groups of shared common...
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How gas is being rebranded as green
Is natural gas renewable? Is it a fossil fuel? A casual google search for natural gas gives the impression that these questions are somehow up for debate. And while natural gas has helped reduce carbon emissions as it was widely adopted...
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We swam to Hong Kong for freedom half a century ago. What now?'
Hon Man Po is a freedom swimmer who fled China for Hong Kong. He arrived in 1968 after years of trying. Two years prior he swam for five hours in the dark from the mainland to Macau, where he made enough money to take an illegal boat...
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How fracking is taking its toll on Argentina's indigenous people – video explainer
An oil fire burned for more than three weeks next to a freshwater lake in Vaca Muerta, Argentina, one of the world’s largest deposits of shale oil and gas and home to the indigenous Mapuche people. In collaboration with Forensic...
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The last king of Eswatini? Reporting on protests in Africa's last absolute monarchy
Cebelihle Mbuyisa is a freelance journalist who was beaten for covering pro-democracy protests in the kingdom of Eswatini. Formerly known as Swaziland, the country has been rocked in recent weeks by anti-monarchy protests calling for...
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What's it like to spar with Carl Froch?
Guardian sport’s Gregg Bakowski faces a few rounds of body sparring with Carl Froch at his hometown gym, the Phoenix Boxing Gym in Nottingham. Gregg tests his limited boxing craft on the former world champion, trying to land a body blow...
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Cancer Town: Rev William Barber visits town at heart of Guardian campaign
The Guardian invited the civil rights leader to the community on the banks of the Mississippi River where the people face the highest risk of cancer due to airborne toxins in the United States. Lending his support to their struggle, he...
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The art of sport photography with Ryan Pierse
It is Friday night at the historic Sydney Cricket Ground where Collingwood are taking on Sydney. Getty’s chief photographer Ryan Pierse is running up and down the sidelines, looking for the perfect frame. ‘You need to know the sport back...
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David Hockney's lockdown sunrise and other masterpiece dawns
David Hockney created a glorious depiction of a sunrise on his iPad in April and emailed it from his lockdown in Normandy to the Guardian's art critic Jonathan Jones.
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Automating Care: How algorithms are cutting Americans' healthcare
US states are using algorithms to figure out whether people are eligible for public benefits and how much care they should receive. But it isn't without its problems. For example, in Arkansas a combination of design decisions and...
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How a German prison is using theatre to de-radicalise young Isis volunteers
In the juvenile prison of Wiesbaden in Germany there are more than 300 inmates, including returning Isis fighters from Syria. A pilot project by the German government seeks to reintegrate individuals through the study of the Qur’an and...
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Frozen out: the US interpreters abandoned on Europe’s border
Ahmad and Mati served the US military as interpreters during the war in Afghanistan, but like many others who did so they haven’t been granted visas to emigrate to the US. With their lives threatened by the Taliban, they joined migrants...
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Hitting the right note: the orchestra helping stroke survivors recover
Strokestra, a pioneering collaboration between the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Hull integrated community stroke service uses group music-making to drive recovery in stroke survivors. Patients try out instruments, listen to and play...
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Stik in Shoreditch: the artist’s hidden tribute to a sold-off London
Last year, the street artist Stik got permission for a major new mural in his neighbourhood, an area of the East End of London that now embodies gentrification at its most extreme. So he asked the denizens of Old Shoreditch – the vicars,...
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Freeing girls trafficked to Italy for sex: 'You will not be a slave for ever
Thousands of women and girls are being trafficked to Italy from Nigeria, into a life of forced prostitution. Abused and desperately vulnerable, they have a champion in Princess Okokon, who was herself trafficked from Nigeria in 1999....
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Trans actors: 'Why can't you just represent me as a person?'
Record numbers of people in Britain now identify as transgender. But does the way transgender people are represented on stage and on screen reflect reality? Jenny Kleeman meets trans actors taking a groundbreaking acting course at the...
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The golden poison dart frog: 'Like holding a loaded gun'
Lucy Cooke, the 'amphibian avenger', really loves frogs. She travels to a remote region of Colombia's wild west to look for one of the world's most toxic animals: Phyllobates terribilis, the golden poison frog. Protecting it from...
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The children trapped in Bangladesh's brothel village
Daulatdia is an entire village in Bangladesh dedicated to prostitution. Every day, 1,600 trafficked, enslaved and abandoned women and girls sell themselves for £2 a time. In the midst of the trade live 300 children, many born in the...
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Rubbish at algebra? Take Jonny's maths masterclass
It's not only tricky to teach – pupils often simply don't see the point of algebra. Maths teacher Jonny Heeley gives an algebra masterclass to an audience of year 10 students from three London schools and starts by amazing them when he...
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How killer robots are changing modern warfare
Uncrewed combat aerial vehicles, or attack drones, have become a common feature of the modern battlefield. Russia has deployed them to terrorise civilians in Ukraine and disable essential infrastructure, and Ukraine has also relied...