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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


The bug stops here?

India, Nov. 9 -- "The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to no... Read More


The bug stops here?: A look at where we are in the fight against antimicrobial resistance

India, Nov. 8 -- "The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to no... Read More


The Curious Zoo...: A comic draws on science to cast bugs and spiders as superstars

India, Nov. 1 -- Ant-Man may be fictional, but the insect world is full of superheroes, of a kind. There's a spider with a lethal high-speed trap. Worms that can knot and unknot themselves. An acroba... Read More


The Curious Zoo...: A comic uses science to cast bugs and spiders as superstars

India, Nov. 1 -- Ant-Man may be fictional, but the insect world is full of superheroes, of a kind. There's a spider with a lethal high-speed trap. Worms that can knot and unknot themselves. An acroba... Read More


Back tie affair: Unwrapping the history of the apron

India, Oct. 25 -- If one had to draw Jeremy Allen White in The Bear, the apron would be the key element (that and the hair, most likely). It serves as part armour for him, and part second skin. It ha... Read More


The links in our bio

India, Oct. 19 -- Aman is slowly running out of words. A woman thinks she's having an affair, with the person who is really her partner. Another woman appears to have lost all control over one arm and... Read More


How does the brain do it all? Dr Masud Husain chats with Wknd about his new book

India, Oct. 17 -- A man is slowly running out of words. A woman thinks she's having an affair, with the man who is really her partner. Another appears to have lost all control over one arm and leg; th... Read More