An excerpt from ‘The Politician Redux: Odyssey of Chance’, the sequel to ‘The Politician’, by Devesh Verma.
Young Australians struggling with the cost of living are being urged to try this saving trick to save $16,000 a year. But it also involves giving up privacy. So would you do it?
Emma Wakefield, from Derby, claimed staff at Manchester Airport confiscated Ben's life-saving medication and tipped away, without consulting his teacher first.
A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
Planet well-being and human health are interconnected issues – one cannot be achieved without the other, according to Kinari Webb, an American medical doctor, public health innovator and thought leader interviewed on the most recent episode of the Global Health Matters podcast. During the special “Dialogues” episode, Webb speaks with host Dr. Garry Aslanyan about […]
IT was one of the first mass school shootings to shock the world. The Columbine killings 25 years ago tomorrow resulted in the deaths of 13 children aged 14 to 18 before the two killer pupils, Eric
Philosophy can often seem overly concerned with terribly abstract questions, such as whether chairs truly exist. However, the questions of philosophy cover all areas of human interest. Perhaps most importantly, several philosophers have spent time on the question of how to live a happy, even joyful, life. Here, we look at four such philosophers, their ideas, and whether they took their own advice. Zhuangzi on being more “spontaneous” Zhuangzi is both the name of a Taoist philosopher and a book...
Out in West Texas, a pair of aspiring novelists and enterprising small-town newspaper owners, Barbara Brannon and Kay Ellington, were dismayed by the number of publications that were dropping book sections, cutting critics, and otherwise decimating literary coverage, especially in the Lone Star State. By the 2010s, “93 percent of the state’s newspapers offer no […]
Hunting for life on other planets is hard; it’s like trying to spot an ant on the other end of a football field. The closest potential host, Venus, is 25 million miles away. Beyond our Solar System, exoplanets that have piqued astronomers’ interest are light-years away. To search for life from these sizable distances, scientists look for biosignatures: elements, molecules, or substances that might have been made by life. These include oxygen and methane, among other compounds. But there’s...
The American Heart Association’s annual Heart Walk is happening Saturday, May 11 in Covington
One of the year's 164,949 emergency calls to New Haven’s 911 center came from a man at the edge of a bridge. Kenya James answered it.
While social media is often used to fill critical information gaps in news deserts, investigative reporting tends to fall by the wayside.