While walking in the park a few years ago I passed an elderly gentleman, a friend of mine, who seemed to be walking a tad slowly and pensively, “A penny for your thoughts?” I asked.“I think I’m getting

Colin SamsonUniversity of EssexA Canadian woman who fraudulently claimed her daughters were Inuit has been sentenced to three years in jail, in what is believed to be the first ever custodial sentence for a ‘

T’was just this morning I opened the paper and found a pretty model showing her dainty self on a dozen different beds. Bewitching, she looked beckoning newspaper readers to glance at different rooms of a hote

Once while dripping down the highway I thought, “What a drive!”As I drove I noticed tire marks that crisscrossed the road. “Burst tires!” I realized. Tires of motorists who had not checked their air pre

While others play badminton, watch Netflix, or read a book for ‘timepass’; a term I find quite cute, I’m caught very often watching steam engine videos.I believe there is no ferocious, powerful, robust, b

One day while sitting on the bench on the platform of a station, I saw the railways had put up a signboard picturing two ghosts talking to each other, with one saying in bold letters, “I CROSSED ONLY ONCE!”

“…Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary…” … Bruce BartonA man had died and the whole city mourned his death. At a club everybody discussed his life and also reminded each other of one charact

It was a jaded old man called Donald, spewing the same mouthfuls of hate and anger against immigrants and foreigners, I’d heard during his tenure as the President. He’d divided the country with his rhetoric

 Hostilities now extend beyond those boundariesNader HabibiBrandeis UniversityThe current phase of fighting in the Middle East began almost a year ago, with the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas and the s

A few years ago I was invited to a prestigious business group.They wanted me to give them a presentation about the small advertising company I owned. I did and a few days later got a call saying they’d decide

DNA is the building block of life. It consists of a recurring sequence of four chemical bases. The arrangement of these bases encodes vital information necessary for various biological processes. Each of the ba

Yesterday I had written on ‘pressing the pause’ button, but how do we press ‘pause’? How do we cultivate the habit of stillness?According to Karin Lawson, a psychologist, you can even cultivate stillnes

Jia Bhargava, Tanay SrinivasaDNA is the building block of life. It consists of a recurring sequence of four chemical bases. The arrangement of these bases encodes vital information necessary for various biologi

It’s been nearly a year since I walked into a plane to Goa, sat next to someone who was busy on her laptop, and then heard her say, “We both are speakers for the same event you know!”Ridima Wali, the same

Tariq Choucair, Queensland University of TechnologyAuthorities in Brazil, the country with the world’s fifth largest number of internet users, have banned the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitte

“Excellent fruit sir! Sweet and tasty! Just look at the skin!”I looked at the fruit and there was no doubt in my mind they were ripe and ready for eating. I wondered whether the fruit vendor could see I was

Suddenly little online ads are appearing on social media, telling us what to eat, what not to eat and the illnesses and diseases you can get by eating the wrong food. It doesn’t stop there, other ads mention

Kadilin GangmeiTetso CollegeIndia is regarded as the largest democratic country in the world since her independence from British colonial empire in 1947. She had adopted a Parliamentary government and became a

The first thing that happens when there is violence or rioting is to shut down the internet.Why?In the good old days when kings sat in their castles and sent their men into battle, quite often, guards from his

Stefan WolffUniversity of BirminghamAs Russia keeps pounding Ukrainian cities with airstrikes and advances along the frontline in Donbas, regional elections in two states in eastern Germany have seen a surge of