Saturday, 13 February 2021

Those Who Work

What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants.



The Ties That Bind

Maori New Zealand MP ejected from parliament gets dated tie policy thrown out.




Thursday, 11 February 2021

Hospital Tells Doctors, Nurses and Midwives

To say ‘birthing parents’ and ‘human milk’ instead of ‘mothers’ and ‘breastmilk’ because they risk offending transgender people.



India To Do Its Best To Provide Vaccines To Canada: PM Modi To Justin Trudeau

‘We also agreed to continue collaborating on other important issues like Climate Change and the global economic recovery,’ PM Modi said.




French Leaders Warn

That social justice ideas imported from the U.S. are undermining their society.



Wednesday, 10 February 2021

How to Create Compelling Characters Like Doctor Sababa

It’s not only writer’s intuition. Use personality psychology to create just the right blend of surprise and believability.



The Myth of Westernisation

Americans liked to believe that Japan was Westernising through the 20th century but Japan was vigorously doing the opposite.



Welcome to the Post-pandemic Dream Home

Work ‘nooks,’ sanitizer-stocked mudrooms, and other new features might soon appear in American houses—for those who can afford them.



Questions Mount Over Trudeau’s Vaccine Dealings With China

Besides the botched CanSino deal, there’s another story grinding away beneath the headlines involving Ottawa, science and China.



Monday, 8 February 2021

China’s Plan for Medical Domination

If there's another pandemic, the West could be dependent on Beijing for vaccine development.



Wallet Returned After 53 Years Lost in Antarctic

It still held man’s beer-ration card and pointers on what to do in case of atomic attack.



Sunday, 7 February 2021

The Thirty Tyrants

The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens and Sparta.



What’s Everything Made Of?

To answer whether the fundamental building blocks of reality are particles, fields or both means thinking beyond physics.



Why I Am One of Many Former Minneapolis Police Officers

Police have gotten no support in the aftermath of the 2020 protests, and many are struggling with PTSD. 



How To Be Angry

Anger is a fuel that’s dangerous when out of control. But managed well, it can energise you to identify and confront problems.