What’s old is new again. After a year off, the Heatwole Threshing Show returns this weekend for its 42nd year. It’s a salute to the farming methods of yesterday. This year’s ...

Zverev agreed with an adamant Paul that one of the American’s first serves during their first set tie-break had clipped the net, but the chair umpire had not heard the contact. The decision ...

It had been a very labour intensive job – in the 18th Century, a quarter of agricultural labour was devoted to threshing. Meikle’s mechanical brainwave ended much of that, but for his machine ...

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After all, from the invention of the cotton gin to the washing machine, we’re used to an economy where technology transforms low-wage, physically arduous work. The discourse around AI has ...