The opiate of the messages
Do you grow twitchy without Twitter? Barmy without your FarmVille? Does every incoming e-mail give you a warm and fuzzy feeling all over?
Creator and destroyer
Volcanoes have immense power to disrupt our lives – yet without volcanoes, we might not have lives to disrupt.
Knocks from the universe next door
A handful of astronomers believe something from beyond our universe is tugging at our galaxies – and new evidence supports their idea.
Chinese research shows arsenic at work destroying deadly cancer cells
Scientists in China have demonstrated how arsenic, a favourite murder weapon in the Middle Ages, destroys blood cancer by killing the specific proteins that keep the dangerous cells alive.
This was Earth Hour?
Safi Roshdy considers the dichotomy between conservation and conspicuous consumption in the Emirates.
Today's comment
US, India and China build a triangle of matchsticks
M J Akbar: There might be more capitalists in China today than in America; there are certainly more Maoists in India now than in China
What are they thinking? I don’t want to know
Martin Newland: The social media phenomenon has coincided with, or perhaps grown out of, a belief that everyone can be a celebrity in their own home.
Performance enhancers aren’t just for athletes anymore
Justin Thomas: The grade-enhancing drugs in question were originally developed to treat cognitive disabilities or neuropsychiatric conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease or Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
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Today's comment
US, India and China build a triangle of matchsticks
M J Akbar: There might be more capitalists in China today than in America; there are certainly more Maoists in India now than in China
What are they thinking? I don’t want to know
Martin Newland: The social media phenomenon has coincided with, or perhaps grown out of, a belief that everyone can be a celebrity in their own home.
Performance enhancers aren’t just for athletes anymore
Justin Thomas: The grade-enhancing drugs in question were originally developed to treat cognitive disabilities or neuropsychiatric conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease or Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
The falcon
In falconry, hoods make the bird
- The headgear serves a vital function in the training and taming of the sporting bird, be they simple hoods or Dh500,000 bonnets covered in silver and gold threading.
Frontiers
- Do you grow twitchy without Twitter? Barmy without your FarmVille? Does every incoming e-mail give you a warm and fuzzy feeling all over?
