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Vincent James HooperThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
In 1955, the young State of Israel was in a hurry. David Ben-Gurion’s policy of mizug galuyot — the blending of the exiles — demanded that Jews...
When an autonomous loitering munition selects and engages a target without human intervention, we assume we know what it is not: it is not aware. It...
Israel was once the undisputed world leader in preventing blindness. Between 1999 and 2010, rates of preventable blindness were slashed by more than...
A patient stops her SSRI under medical supervision over four weeks. She has never previously experienced panic attacks, insomnia, or akathisia. All...
Mark Zuckerberg told shareholders in May that renting out Meta’s surplus computing power is “definitely on the table.” The remark was casual....
On the memorial above Plymouth Sound, a Jewish midshipman faces the earl’s house across the water — and a whole forgotten history with him. Among...
Today would have been Sir Clive Sinclair’s eighty sixth birthday. He died in September 2021, aged eighty one, and the obituaries were kind but...
But the Great Moderation was not the new normal. It was a pause — a deceptive lull in history’s recurring cycle of instability. When the 2008...
Michael Owen scored twice against Argentina in Geneva in 2005. It was a fine evening’s work. Twenty-one years later, from the safety of his sofa, he...
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrived in cinemas last week to a pre-sale frenzy that had not been seen since Oppenheimer. The $250 million...
In October 1973, Israeli military intelligence operated under a framework it called the Konzeptziya: Egypt would not attack until it could neutralise...
There is a moment on every jet bridge when the corridor belongs to nobody. You have left the terminal. You have not yet boarded. It is a threshold, a...
On 16 July 2026, Beijing-based Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a model containing 2.8 trillion parameters and a context window of one million tokens....
In 1931, a quiet Austrian logician named Kurt Gödel proved something that shook mathematics to its foundations. Any formal system powerful enough to...
On 20 July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that one of its own internal models — widely reported as the same long-horizon reasoning system it had credited in...
In 1999, the mathematician Thomas Hales proved what bees have known for millions of years: hexagons are the optimal way to divide a surface into equal...
The game we call Snakes and Ladders was born in ancient India under the name Moksha Patam, a board designed not for amusement but for moral...
When Donald Trump took to Truth Social during King Charles’s April state visit to Washington and quipped that he had “always wanted to live in...
When Donald Trump declared that the people of Aberdeen were “dancing in the streets” following reports that incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham...
Russia’s wartime economy has been called a miracle and a mirage, sometimes by the same analyst in the same paragraph. GDP grew at over 4 per cent in...
Diplomats do not think of themselves as numerical analysts. Yet every round of shuttle diplomacy, every incremental concession extracted at a Geneva...
Jordan possesses just twenty-six kilometres of coastline. That narrow strip at Aqaba, wedged between Saudi Arabia and Israel at the northern tip of...
Sir Ken Robinson died on 21 August 2020, at 70, after a short battle with cancer. He never saw ChatGPT. He never encountered an autonomous AI agent...
On Sunday, as the Wimbledon men’s singles final unfolded under the watchful gaze of Prince William, Nicole Kidman, and a battalion of strawberry...
Hours before England took the pitch against DR Congo in the World Cup round of 32, the dominant item on British social media was not Thomas Tuchel’s...
A viral claim says consciousness flows from the quantum vacuum. Here is what the physics actually permits, and what it forbids. A post circulated on...
Britain tells itself a story about the melting pot, and like most national stories it has forgotten where the phrase came from. It came from a London...
When 95% of high-tech employees use AI regularly and 1% of construction firms do, the question is not whether AI raises productivity — but whose?...
There is a long pattern in modern strategic history of Israeli operational decisions rewiring the calculations of nations that believed themselves...
When Oliver Williamson built transaction cost economics into a Nobel-winning architecture, he warned that markets and hierarchies were not...
When the neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp began tickling laboratory rats in the late 1990s and discovered they produced ultrasonic chirps functionally...
Paradise was once a garden. In the Hebrew Bible it was Gan Eden, a place of rivers and fruit trees, of abundance made physical. In the modern State of...
In 1972, a 25 year old doctoral student at Princeton planted a time bomb in the foundations of modern physics. Jacob Bekenstein, working under the...
Saudi Arabia’s 2034 FIFA World Cup will require fifteen stadiums across five cities. Between 2021 and 2023, the Kingdom invested over $6 billion in...
Anyone who has watched a trader blow up a desk will recognize the pattern: mounting losses, narrowing options, the slow slide from discipline into...
Keir Starmer choked up as he announced he would go. Within days the rooms around him had emptied. Ministers walked out of his cabinet. More than...
There is a resurrection the machines could now perform, and almost nobody has asked them to attempt it. Artificial intelligence has reached the point...
The web already regulates flashing light to protect one set of brains. It is time we thought about the rest — and Israel is quietly showing how. A...
British scientists have just detected something from space that should be read carefully in Jerusalem, though it concerns a sea more than two thousand...
Some of medicine’s most important answers arrive by accident. Israel is sitting on the next one. Some of the most consequential discoveries in...
In March 2026, buried in Saudi Aramco’s annual report, the world’s largest oil company quietly deferred its flagship downstream target. The 4...
There is a single line in the Emirates announcement of 17 June that does more work than the rest of the press release combined. The new Comprehensive...
In March 1944, the day after German troops occupied Budapest, a man walked to the railway station to buy tickets that might carry his family to...
Every Jewish child who has heard the story knows how it ends. A being is shaped from river clay and brought to life not by lightning but by language:...
There is a particular strangeness in being courted to embrace a product you have just been forbidden to touch. That was the position of the world’s...
From Saltash you can see Plymouth across the Tamar, and somewhere in that grey riverside sprawl of dockyard and terraces sits a building most of the...
A poll lands, a presenter leans in, and the chyron does the rest: HUGE NEW POLL PREDICTS FARAGE AS NEXT PM. The clip travels far further than the...
Every fashionable anxiety eventually finds its viral statistic, and artificial intelligence has now found water. The claim ricocheting around social...
The Letter in the Drawer. Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband has just closed a limited run at the Lyric Hammersmith, a bold new staging that ended this...
There was a particular pleasure in watching Joshua James stalk the lawn at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, breath hanging in the cold May air,...
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