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Theodore Dalrymple | City Journal | 30th June 2025 | U Tirade against Britain’s Milton Keynes. The city’s “tidy-minded planners clearly detested the street”, and favoured instead a grid system with wide, featureless roads and office blocks made of plate glass. Modernists argue that aesthetic considerations are less important than good function. “Why beauty in the twenty-first century should be incompatible with proper ventilation is not immediately clear” (3,200 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Ernie Smith | Tedium | 29th June 2025 Computing is expected to outpace heating, ventilation and air-conditioning as the biggest energy suck. This is just from cloud computing and office server rooms, without taking AI into account. All this energy consumed will increase heat, which will increase the need for cooling — a vicious cycle. The silver lining might lie in better technology: lighting consumes significantly less power since the advent of LEDs (1,600 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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