All articles tagged with #life and arts
An FT opinion piece argues GTA6 could become the biggest entertainment product in history and potentially unite a fragmented world far more effectively than football, forecasting a Florida-set crime sandbox with a budget over $1 billion and a mid‑November launch that could dominate global attention for years.
FT’s Dylan Neri reviews Steve Brusatte’s The Story of Birds, arguing that birds are dinosaurs and tracing how a coelurosaur lineage led to modern birds via feathers, flight, and endothermy, anchored by Archaeopteryx; the book offers an accessible, evidence-packed narrative that makes a compelling case for evolution, even if occasionally the prose leans toward familiar authorial flair.
Anjana Ahuja reviews Aimee Donnellan’s Off the Scales, which chronicles the rise of GLP-1 weight-loss injections (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro) from their science origins to their rapid market dominance, the patent battles and credit disputes, and their sweeping social impact on obesity stigma, healthcare, and industries from food to fashion. The book follows Novo Nordisk’s lead, the competitive push from Eli Lilly, and includes personal-case anecdotes to illustrate life-changing weight loss, while also flagging potential downsides and long-term unknowns as access broadens and patents lapse—remarkably readable but perhaps too broad in scope according to the review.