The timeless dance of opposites: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi
[ad_1] Call these field notes from an atheist. For a very long time, I was a militant one. I’m not quite sure when the needle shifted. While the atheism stays,…
[ad_1] Call these field notes from an atheist. For a very long time, I was a militant one. I’m not quite sure when the needle shifted. While the atheism stays,…
[ad_1] If you’re having trouble making idli and dosa batter at home, don’t beat yourself up. Getting a microbial culture to grow well but not too well, takes a lot…
[ad_1] How the world changes… The technology that powered the nuclear bomb may soon be so tamed, it will sit in palms and laps, powering phone and laptop batteries so…
[ad_1] It used to be only the very wealthy that had money rolling in, in exchange for little to no effort. PREMIUM (Adobe Stock) It typically came from land that…
[ad_1] The earliest scientific research in this field was conducted in the 1960s, as part of gelotology, or the study of the psychological and physiological effects of humour. In one…
[ad_1] On May 1, Sanjay Leela Bhansali will go small. Hindi cinema’s most visually opulent auteur will unveil his latest, Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, on Netflix. The eight-episode series, about…
[ad_1] There’s a reason stories survive. They remain the only way to honestly look at ourselves, and each other, and preserve — or alter — what we see. Every conversation…
[ad_1] Numbers can explain everything, even music, the Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras believed. A visualisation of Pythagoras and his music theory, by Midjourney. His 6th-century-BCE experiments of plucking stretched…
[ad_1] For most of us, in the pandemic, birdsong seemed to grow louder. But studies conducted since are revealing that, in some places, the opposite was true. PREMIUM Flamingoes flock…
[ad_1] Early experiments with sound were, by default, linked to music. PREMIUM Charles Darwin played a bassoon to a mimosa, to test whether plants could “hear”. He wanted to see…
[ad_1] “As we live through what many scientists describe as a mass-extinction event, more forms of life are dying out and the sounds they create are being lost with them.”…
[ad_1] Venki Ramakrishnan celebrated his 72nd birthday last week but, despite his own suggestion that “many people do their best work when they’re young,” the Nobel laureate is starting work…
[ad_1] I ran into a friend the other day, who told me about all the plans she had made for her 11-year-old son’s summer vacation. It sounded like a whirl…
[ad_1] By late August 2023, something was clearly very wrong in the Cauvery basin. The southwest monsoon had failed. Between June and August, Kodagu district, where the Cauvery originates, saw…
[ad_1] In many ways, the anti-café is the kind of space that American urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg calls the “third place”, separate from the social environments of home and work.…
[ad_1] The near-unanimous answer to that question is birthing a new hospitality format around the world. The anti-café is an attempt to acknowledge that many café patrons aren’t looking primarily…
[ad_1] A recent visit to the Indian men’s hockey team’s national camp at the Kalinga Stadium sports complex in Bhubaneswar was a revelation. PREMIUM The Kalinga Stadium complex is also…
[ad_1] “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.” PREMIUM Emma Stone as Bella Baxter in Poor Things, the Oscar-winning 2023 feminist retelling. Artificial intelligence,…