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  • LIFE

    A taste of art

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 25/04/2024

    » We were told from the beginning to not think of Street Food Theatre as performance art, but rather an "experience". We were also informed of the belief of the project's creator that art can take place everywhere.

  • WORLD

    Are trees talking underground?

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 27/11/2022

    » Justine Karst, a mycologist at the University of Alberta, feared things had gone too far when her son got home from eighth grade and told her he had learned that trees could talk to each other through underground networks.

  • OPINION

    Are scientific breakthroughs on the decline?

    News, Published on 27/12/2023

    » This year had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientific findings have been waning since 1945. An accompanying graph showed all fields on a steep downhill slide.

  • WORLD

    'White Lotus' actor would do it all again

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/12/2022

    » Not long ago, venerable actor F Murray Abraham wanted to get lunch at a favourite restaurant in Greenwich Village. Unfortunately, the place was overrun by New York University students shooting a film.

  • WORLD

    Tears, anger on 'Joola' sinking anniversary

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022

    » Up on the deck, dozens of university students played cards. In the first-class cabins below, passengers watched the movie Air Force One. In an overcrowded third-class compartment, a teenage football team on its way to a tournament belted out songs.

  • OPINION

    Will India be a new economic superpower?

    Oped, Published on 11/08/2023

    » In March 1985, the Wall Street Journal showered India's new prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, with its highest praise. In an editorial titled "Rajiv Reagan", the newspaper compared the 40-year-old Gandhi to "another famous tax cutter we know", and declared that deregulation and tax cuts had triggered a "minor revolution" in India.

  • WORLD

    Modern medicine in ancient Rome

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023

    » Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were sceptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of whom ministered to ailments they did not understand. Poets especially ridiculed surgeons for being greedy, for taking sexual advantage of patients and, above all, for incompetence.

  • OPINION

    The reason why I still have Jackie on my mind

    News, Maureen Dowd, Published on 06/06/2023

    » I think about Jackie Kennedy several times a day.

  • WORLD

    Ancient ecosystem laid bare

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/12/2022

    » In the permafrost at the northern edge of Greenland, scientists have discovered the oldest known fragments of DNA, offering an extraordinary look at an extraordinary ancient ecosystem.

  • WORLD

    Tiny literary shoots take root

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/04/2023

    » Before Sally Rooney was the author of bestselling books, and well before those books became buzzy television series, she was an undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin with a growing pile of unpublished poems and no contacts in the writing world. Her first break came in 2010, when The Stinging Fly, a small Irish literary magazine, agreed to publish her work.

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