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  • OPINION

    It's just so over the top

    Postbag, Published on 17/03/2024

    » Re: "Even Photoshop can't erase royals' latest PR blunder", (Commentary, March 13).

  • 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.

  • LIFE

    All things in Harmony

    Life, Published on 14/11/2023

    » Barry Manilow is superstitious. Such a statement may come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the 80-year-old pop legend's career, with decades of hits, endless Las Vegas residencies and international fame as a still-smooth crooner who wrote the songs that made the whole world sing.

  • 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books became buzzy television series, she was an undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin with a growing pile of unpublished poems and no contacts in the writing world.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.

  • WORLD

    Inside a nasty newspaper war

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/03/2023

    » They say that print is dead and local news is dying. But in the small patch of lower Manhattan that is Greenwich Village, there are four local newspapers vying for supremacy. Here, print is very much alive.

  • 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.

  • LIFE

    From product developer to painter

    Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 23/11/2022

    » Thai artist Aimi Kaiya felt discouraged after she saw artwork by other international artists at Chianciano Biennale 2022 in Italy. Aimi felt the works were creative and of excellent quality. Therefore, she did not expect to win any prize at the Chianciano Biennale Award. Surprisingly, Aimi was the only Thai artist at the biennale who won the Chianciano Biennale Award for abstract artwork for her mixed media painting Romance In Venice.

  • WORLD

    Embalming, the dying science

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022

    » Walk down two flights of stairs at the back entrance of the James Hunt Funeral Home in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and you reach a white-walled, linoleum-floored, fluorescently lit room, a liminal space that provides the beginning of an answer to one of the oldest and most confounding questions of the human experience: What happens to us when we die?

  • LIFE

    Once more into the upside down

    Life, Published on 03/06/2022

    » Six years ago, Matt and Ross Duffer whipped up a perfect streaming video dessert, low on nutrition but high in sweet pop culture calories. Season 1 of their Netflix series Stranger Things was an expertly assembled and precisely calibrated souffle of Generation X nostalgia, Spielbergian family melodrama and more intense-than-expected sci-fi-horror adventure. It was a delicious, entirely guilt-free indulgence.

  • WORLD

    When you can take it with you -- just

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/03/2022

    » If you were leaving home forever and had just a few hours to collect your thoughts and most precious belongings, items that would have to fit into a knapsack or purse, or just your pockets, what would you choose?

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