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A return of the Lord of the Ring? Rudraneil Sengupta on Tyson Fury’s ‘last bout’
[ad_1] Tyson Fury has retired. Or so he said on April 24, after he knocked out compatriot Dillian Whyte to retain his World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title. This is […]
Indians are travelling again. See what’s on the cards for 2022
[ad_1] This March, India resumed regular international flights after a two-year hiatus, and Indians are raring to go. Over 3,200 flights are set to leave for foreign lands each week, […]
Aiming for ‘Game Over’: Meet India’s top gaming speedrunners
[ad_1] If they give you ruled paper, write the other way, Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez said. In the world of gaming, the rebels writing the other way are the […]
Raising the bar: Swetha Sivakumar on how gritty beans became beloved chocolate
[ad_1] We groan about industrial food processing. “Food was so much healthier and tastier in the past,” we say. While this is true of certain things, it is certainly not […]
All aflutter: Create a garden friendly to butterflies and birds
[ad_1] How much do you really know about the birds and the bees? Jokes aside, it’s an important question when planning a garden — whether in an outdoor space, on […]
Earth day 2022: Discover the citizen scientist within you
[ad_1] Let your next picnic, hike, nature trail serve a larger cause. Around the world, citizen-science projects enlist regular people — usually nature-lovers, birders and amateur naturalists — to collect […]
What kind of packaged juice is the freshest squeeze? Swetha Sivakumar explains
[ad_1] What do satellite imagery and a “black book of algorithms” have to do with beverages? I have one word for you: Coca-Cola. These technologies are now being used by […]
Faking it in five letters: Study finds more people are cheating at Wordle
[ad_1] Launched in October 2021, it united the online world in an incredibly difficult time, using just a few rows of recognisable squares. Then the New York Times (NYT) acquired […]
Tox screen report: Check out new variants of the Bechdel test for movies
[ad_1] “If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a hot lamp, and your story still works, you’re a hack,” American comic-book creator Kelly […]
AI lullabies, sensor sheets: The future of sleep is here
[ad_1] We spend a third of our lives sleeping, or at least we’re supposed to. But as stress levels rise and screens shine on for longer, sleep cycles are breaking, […]
Snooze, don’t lose: The true cost of sleep debt
[ad_1] Put down the remote. Turn out the lights. You’re already likely deep in debt. As the war on sleep intensifies — driven by factors such as rising stress levels, […]
Powering down: Inside India’s sleep crisis
[ad_1] Shakespeare called sleep the “chief nourisher in life’s feast”, in his 17th-century play Macbeth. It would be another century before scientists began researching sleep as part of Western medicine. […]
An Elon Musk-run Twitter? I’d log out: Charles Assisi, in this week’s Life Hacks
[ad_1] Elon Musk, currently the richest man in the world, has announced his intent to acquire a controlling stake in Twitter. The management, led by CEO Parag Agrawal, is determined […]
Strait shooter: A Wknd interview with the parents of autistic record-setting swimmer Jiya Rai
[ad_1] Standing on the jetty at Talaimannar in Sri Lanka, Madan Rai gazed at the expanse of the Indian Ocean. It was a cloudy night and the sea was choppy. […]
It enriches us when lives lived in the margins storm the page,says Poonam Saxena
[ad_1] Who is interested in the stories and lives of old people? Almost no one. In our aggressively youth-oriented society, people above a certain age — old parents, grandparents — […]
A spoonful of culture: Swetha Sivakumar on curd, yoghurt, kefir and skyr
[ad_1] Back in the ’80s, during a large family gathering, a non-Tamil-speaking cousin asked my old aunt, “Can I have some more?” while pointing to a dish that he enjoyed. […]
Survivor’s kilt: The rise of dystopia-core fashion
[ad_1] How would you dress for the end of the world? In scenes ranging from Biblical paintings to modern-day cinema, people are usually taken by surprise, whether by the Rapture […]
The Great Re-Set: How the tussle over the return to work is playing out
[ad_1] What shall we call this phase of the pandemic? We’ve been though The Great Retreat, those months when India locked down in 2020. We’ve had The Great Adjustment, as […]
Treasures going back 10,000 years: A peek inside the Encyclopedia of Indian Art
[ad_1] Khujasta needed dissuasion from leaving her home at night to meet her lover, and her husband’s pet parrot devised a way of doing that. It would start a moral […]