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Deja brew: How matcha - and avocados, and blueberries - made the leap onto menus, and then everywhere

India, Jan. 31 -- Matcha is everywhere, and nowhere (more on that in a bit). There are matcha croissants, cupcakes, coladas, facewashes, lip balms, candles, chewing gum, toothpaste. It emerged as a ... Read More


How the order half lives

India, Jan. 11 -- l Fashion influencer Taryn Hicks from Utah sets aside time every once in a while to tighten the shoelaces on all her sneakers, so she can slip them on without having to untie and ret... Read More


How the order half lives: Can micro-efficiencies improve your life?

India, Jan. 10 -- * Fashion influencer Taryn Hicks from Utah sets aside time every once in a while to tighten the shoelaces on all her sneakers, so she can slip them on without having to untie and ret... Read More


Smog and mirrors: A Wknd interview with an aerosol scientist and advisor to WHO

India, Jan. 2 -- It's like a giant ocean above our heads. It holds, like the oceans, a host of unanswered questions. Among the ones that concern us most directly: What happens to what's in the air we... Read More


State of play: The story of modern Karnataka

India, Dec. 14 -- There are no teams; no winners or losers. No one is ever knocked out. There is just a seething mass of players, taking turns to be king. An ancient version of dodgeball is played rat... Read More


'What would it take for you to be happy?': Excerpts from the book Questions Without Answers

India, Nov. 21 -- (Excerpted with permission from Questions Without Answers by Sarah Manguso, illustrated by Liana Finck, published by Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random... Read More


Aww struck: A new book puts together some of the best questions asked by children

India, Nov. 21 -- * Are you the same person when you're sleeping? * Why did animal control send a person to help that squirrel? Wasn't there an animal that could help him? * Will I grow tall like pa... Read More


Pasta, candy bars, soy: How war has shaped some of our favourite foods

India, Nov. 14 -- "It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism," Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett write, in Good Omens (1990). Through history, the kitche... Read More


Pasta, candy bars, soy: How war shaped some of our favourite foods

India, Nov. 14 -- "It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism," Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett write, in Good Omens (1990). Through history, the kitche... Read More


Change of hearth: Three new books explore how food is shaped by war

India, Nov. 14 -- About 90 years ago, people risked prison for the sake of pasta. Benito Mussolini launched a campaign against the staple in Italy, in the 1930s, and tried to promote rice instead. Ri... Read More