The Algorithm Age

It's become surprisingly easy to take dinosaurs for granted. After the past decade of overstuffed Jurassic World movies, the thrill of beholding the prehistoric beasts on screen — once considered a revolutionary feat of VFX artistry in the original Jurassic Park — no longer holds the same allure. When we meet Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey, Wicked) — the latest sexy scientist of the Jurassic Park universe — he's in the middle of closing up his dinosaur exhibit in a New York museum. Ever since dinosaurs were unleashed onto the earth's unsuspecting civilian population in Jurassic World Dominion, the general public has tired of their presence, and his expertise has gone unappreciated. Outside, the presence of a sleeping dino is a mere commuting headache. If the box office success of the Jurassic World trilogy is any indicator, the real world has yet to succumb to dino-fatigue, even as the films' critical reception reached disastrous new lows for the fra...

A couple ‘world schooling’ their kids while backpacking have visited 40 countries – and taught their brood to flamenco dance in Spain and marine conservation in Montenegro. Diana Blinks, 41, and her husband, Scott, 47, have world schooled their three daughters – Lucille, 12, Edith, 11 and Hazel, nine – since 2022 when they left their hometown of Tampa, Florida, US. World schooling involves adopting an educational approach where families travel the world, using diverse cultural experiences and real-world settings as their classroom. Desperate to travel and teach their children about the world, the family set off for Paris, France, in July 2022 – before heading to South America, visiting Costa Rica, Mexico and the Caribbean – seeking out school environments and teachers before they get to their next destination. They travelled to 22 different countries in the space of a year – including Spain, Iceland and Greece. Their favourite is Portugal after they came across acr...