Society booksReviewThis inspiring book is based on a social activist’s series of experiments giving people the control to improve their own lives “Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, ‘Grow, grow’.” This beautiful line from the Talmud is the epigraph to social activist Hilary Cottam’s book, which argues for a reinvention of the welfare state so that all feel supported and can “live to our true and shared potential”.

DenverThe airport has long been the subject of wild theories. Now it’s getting in on the act with jokes about its new project If you pass through the great hall of Denver airport in Colorado this weekend, you won’t fail to notice the huge amount of building work going on there. Or at least … it looks like building work. Large posters, placed on hoardings around the terminal, cast doubt on what’s really going on.

Books This article is more than 1 year old‘A little bit addictive and the right amount hard’: new video game is based on poems of Emily Dickinson This article is more than 1 year oldThe 80s-style shooter EmilyBlaster is a real-life version of a game featured in Gabrielle Zevin’s forthcoming novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Ever wanted to play a computer game based on the poems of Emily Dickinson? Well, now you can, with the release of EmilyBlaster, a 1980s-style game in which players must shoot words out of the sky to correctly recreate Dickinson’s verse.

Wellness or hellness?GadgetsThis small mat’s 8,820 plastic points are said to be able to address the negative symptoms of being alive in 2019. So I put on a thin T-shirt and braced myself I love a bed of anything. Bed of lettuce? Here for it. Raised beds for boosted drainage? Take me there. You made your bed, so lie in it? Thank you, I will. Today, though, I’m wondering if I’ve found my limit.

Buenos Aires holidays This article is more than 8 years oldControversial religious Barbie doll exhibition opens in Buenos AiresThis article is more than 8 years oldBarbies dressed as saints, Ken on the cross and Johnny Depp at the Last Supper … artists face down protest and unveil Barbie: The Plastic Revolution exhibition After almost a year’s delay following opposition and outcry from churchgoers and rightwing activists, Emiliano Pool Paolini and Marianela Perelli, two artists from Rosario in Argentina, have finally unveiled Barbie: The Plastic Revolution, part of the Saints and Sinners exhibition at a small gallery in Buenos Aires’ La Boca district.