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In the game, no matter how many thoughts and prayers are sent, no lives are saved. Photograph: http://www.thoughtsandprayersthegame.com/In the game, no matter how many thoughts and prayers are sent, no lives are saved. Photograph: http://www.thoughtsandprayersthegame.com/Games This article is more than 7 years old‘Thoughts and prayers’ are no match against gun crime in this online gameThis article is more than 7 years oldGame inviting players to stop mass shootings with thoughts and prayers alone highlights the ‘complete ridiculousness’ of political inaction, say developers

In Animal Farm (1989 onwards), depictions of world leaders, each with the body of a beast, overlay Orwell’s parable. Painting by Tim Rollins and the KOS; courtesy Maureen Paley, LondonIn Animal Farm (1989 onwards), depictions of world leaders, each with the body of a beast, overlay Orwell’s parable. Painting by Tim Rollins and the KOS; courtesy Maureen Paley, LondonArtObituaryTim Rollins obituaryArtist whose collaboration with young New Yorkers the Kids of Survival pioneered socially engaged conceptual artTim Rollins, who has died aged 62 of cardiovascular disease, was a conceptual artist and pioneer of socially engaged art.

ConservationSouth African magnate hopes there will be bidder in auction who prefers 1,993 rare creatures to a superyacht Wanted: an animal-loving billionaire who might consider buying 1,993 threatened white rhinos instead of a new superyacht or a Picasso, or a Picasso onboard a superyacht. John Hume, a South African multimillionaire who started a rhino breeding project with about 200 animals 30 years ago, is selling all the rhinos and the 8,500-hectare (21,000 acres) conservation ranch where they live in what must rank as one of the most unusual ever online auctions.

Cities This article is more than 8 years oldA new New Cairo: Egypt plans £30bn purpose-built capital in desertThis article is more than 8 years oldThe currently nameless city of five million would be home to 660 hospitals, 1,250 mosques and churches, and a theme park four times the size of Disneyland – all to be completed within seven years. Could it happen? Egypt’s capital has moved two-dozen times in the country’s 5,000-year history, but its current seat of power has remained unchanged since AD 969.

A life in ...BooksInterviewLarissa MacFarquhar interview: ‘People think I’m a total freak for not using the first person’ David WolfThe New Yorker profile writer talks about the joys of non-fiction, mimicking her subjects’ styles and the strange case of ‘moral saints’Very, very virtuous people are easy to dislike. These aren’t the kind of people who are simply nice to their friends and family, and generous to strangers, and donate to charity, and maybe do some volunteering at the weekend.

FilmThe studio that mastered the art of the gleefully ghoulish cinematic short-story collection in the 60s and 70s is set to return. It may just raise a terrific genre from the dead Although Hammer usually receives the bulk of the recognition, there would be no real British horror movie scene without Amicus Productions. Between 1962 and 1977, Amicus produced 28 movies, many of which have become cult classics. The Psychopath. The Deadly Bees.

Taskmaster’s 100 best bits. Composite: Channel 4Over 400 tasks are whittled down, in our ranking of the best challenges set by Alex Horne and Greg Davies by Jack BernhardtAs someone who tried to make a career out of live comedy, I should probably hate Taskmaster. The premise – five comedians desperately compete to impress a famous comedian – is basically a concentrated version of my worst Edinburgh fringe anxiety dreams, the ones where I’m back in the Underbelly, Cowgate, but I’ve forgotten all the lines to the show, I’m naked and the only people in the audience are David Mitchell, Josie Lawrence and my horrible PE teacher from year 7.

A life in ...AS ByattInterviewWriting in terms of pleasureInterview by Sam LeithIn my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers'Do you know what her children call her?" a mutual friend asked me when I said I was going to see AS Byatt. "You'll never guess. Not in a million years." "Antonia? Mum?" "No," he said, laughing. "They call her 'AS Byatt'." Why is this funny?

Children's booksChildren's books'Oh, the places you'll go!' The best Dr Seuss quotesIn honour of the man behind the Grinch, the Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and many, many other children’s classics, here are some of his best lines It’s hard to imagine growing up without the Cat in the Hat, the Grinch, the Lorax or Horton: Theodor Seuss Geisel - better known as the beloved Dr Seuss - produced some of the most popular children’s books ever published.