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Turkmenistan's dictator is really good at Photoshop

World

Touring Turkmenistan's Mary Museum, home of presidential propaganda 

This is the best way to fight back against London's anti-homeless spikes

Art & Design
Society

Space, Not Spikes is reclaiming the city's doorways

Little Atoms round up (the set the Goddam Watchman already edition)

Turkmenistan, Twitter rows, torrenting music and turning anti-homeless spikes into art

North Korea with oil: inside Turkmenistan's propaganda machine

World

Gold statues and macho stunts are all the rage for Turkmenistan's dictator Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. Little Atoms reports from one of the world's most secretive states

Little Atoms round up (the poetic justice edition)

Extremism in the aftermath of 7/7, the plagiarism plague in poetry, new literature and Ancient Greek references explained

Little Atoms weekly roundup (the eurozone – it’s all Greek to me edition)

What’s actually happening with Greece, naming Islamic State, being raised by Jurassic World, our love hate relationship with London, seeing elves on DMT and the literary phenomenon Nell Zink.

What is the leap second?

Science

An extra second has been added to the day on 30 June. Vincent Meens of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiale explains why

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The Little Atoms radio show launched on London's Resonance FM in 2005.  Ten years on, after a decade of interviews with some of the most interesting voices in politics, literature, science, art and comedy, Little Atoms has branched out with a new online publication dedicated to intelligent, accessible writing and interviews on everything from deism to design.

Little Atoms weekly round-up (the everything but...edition)

Mali, Bali, Glastonbury, Banksy: the best of this week's Little Atoms

Are British schools being militarised?

Film & Music
Society

A new film reveals that since 2011, £45 million has been spent on new programmes with “a military ethos” in schools

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