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It’s not often that shows aimed at young children get an audience outside of their age group. Yes, many tired parents and siblings end up watching programs about animated characters, over and over again, often when there’s plenty of superior stuff for them to watch, while entertaining little ones. But shows that not only appeal to fussy toddlers, but also their family members and even people who have no reason to watch children’s TV — heck, even awarding voters and “best” list writers — is definitely not the norm. Picture: Bluey and Bingo make Daddy play the game he hates the most, sheepdog. photo: BBC But Bluey is one such event. A co-production between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC, Bluey is set in Australia and is about the life of the eponymous Bluey, a blue heel pup, his younger sister Bingo and parents Bandit and Chilli. Having first aired in 2018, it won acclaim – the first series became ...

Pick up any physics textbook and you’ll find formula after formula that explains how things sway, fly, turn, and stop. The formula describes actions that we can observe, but behind each can be a series of factors that are not immediately apparent. Now, a new AI program developed by researchers at Columbia University appears to have found its own alternative physics. After being shown videos of physical phenomena on Earth, AI did not rediscover the current variables we used; instead, it actually comes up with a new variable to explain what it sees. To be clear, this does not mean that our current physics is flawed or that there is a more suitable model to explain the world around us. (Einstein’s laws have proven to be very powerful.) But they can only exist because they are built on a pre-existing ‘language’ of theories and principles established by centuries of tradition. Given an alternate timeline where other minds tackle the same problem from a slightly dif...