Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales
elcome to the weekend and an official Succession-free zone. Though if you’re spoiler-proof or even a spoilerphile, we have the finale and its fallout1. Why fan culture is out of controlTwo things that have never been played in my household: episodes of Succession and Taylor Swift songs. So normally my interest in all things Tay is minimal. But toxic fandom? Hand me some popcorn.
Swift stans are up in arms about her rumoured relationship with Matty Healy, the shall-we-say “problematic” frontman of the 1975. They want her to call it off;“Policing musicians’ relationships is the natural next step for young fans who have grown up with the expectation that stars have to have good politics, and whose para-social relationships with artists were stoked during pandemic years, when artist engagement on platforms such as TikTok went into overdrive.
The journalist and author suffered her own Covid-era confidence crisis so she turned to the experts for advice onOne expert Groskop talked to estimated populations begin to recover from major disasters around the 30-year point.Birdbrains or flights of fancy? An emu at Taronga zoo in Sydney.My cat has learned a thing or two in her 16 years. Rattling teaspoons in the top drawer: feeding time. “Up!”: get off my chest, it’s time to roll over and sleep.
New research, however, suggests giraffes can do statistical reasoning. Parrots can do more than just talk – they understand the concept of the future. And these findings areAn octopus has 500m neurons, about as many as a dog – but most of these neurons are located not in the brain but in its eight arms, each of which can move, smell and perhaps even remember on its own.
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