• Hunger versus craving; belly versus brain

    FEATURE — Are you feeding your brain or your belly? Are you really hungry or do you just “crave” something? Hunger and cravings are both feelings and experiences that are driven by complex signals in our brains. The gut is our second brain. It is important for those who don’t have weight issues to be […]

  • Civil Aviation Ministry talks of differentiated regulation of drones for civil and defence use

    Ministry Secretary Vumlunmang Vualnam talked about a separate set of guidelines for drone usage based on specific use cases like civil and public uses, defence and law enforcement uses

  • Civil War

    Civil War Dir. Alex Garland, U.S./U.K., A24. The 15-year-old me would have

  • Civil LARP: The journalists are at it again

    Alex Garland’s Civil War is not just a story told from the point of view of journalists, which would be taxing enough. It’s a movie about journalism, which is a hilariously narrow and tedious preoccupation for a movie that’s nominally concerned with present-day civil conflict. But it’s ironically very fitting: reporters spent four years playacting as valiant rebel war correspondents […]

  • Civil War Should Make You Angry

    There's been a lot of discourse around the film, and Alex Garland's Civil War is a movie that should make you angry.

  • Civil servants revive salary demands

    CIVIL servants are set to revive their demand to be paid US$850 or its ZiG equivalence when they have their second quarter To access this post, you must purchase a subscription. Please click the button below to visit our subscriptions page to select a package. Subscriptions

  • A Movie That Might Be Worse Than Civil War

    The new film Civil War is a historic cinematic achievement. British director Alex Garland has made a movie that might be worse than a real American civil war. Perhaps that was Garland’s intention. His film is a series of horrifying set pieces—Abu Ghraib-style torture by gas station attendants, government aerial bombings of civilians, summary execution of journalists, a massive California and Texas invasion of Washington, D.C.—that seem to add up to a warning. If we don’t steer away from our...

  • Trump's civil fraud bond stands

    Judge Engoron closed the loopholes and removed opportunities that Donald Trump's folks built to disappear the collateral and approved the $175 million bond. The $175 million bond that Trump and his friend, Don Hankey, posted to stave off collections in his civil fraud judgment is good enough for Judge Engoron. — Read the rest

  • The 'Civil War' AI controversy, explained

    A24 used AI-generated posters of war-torn American cities to promote Alex Garland's "Civil War," and audiences are not happy.

  • How Indians won civil rights in Australia

    Government officials and influential private citizens took up the cause of Indian immigrants in Australia, which had a state-sanctioned discrimination policy.

  • The rot in US academia extends to most of every faculty

    When the NYPD moved in on the New York University pro-Hamas occupiers Monday night, professors formed a human chain to block the cops — neatly revealing a huge part of the problem in US academia.

  • What 'Civil War' Gets Right (and Wrong) About Photojournalism

    Civil War eschews the typical trappings of a combat action movie by turning the lens not toward the soldiers but to the photographers capturing them. And while it excels in some aspects of its portrayal, it falters when it comes to the big stuff. [Read More]