Saturday, 18 November 2023

Modern Alchemy at Tokyo’s Most Radical Bar

At Tokyo’s Ben Fiddich, Hiroyasu Kayama uses homegrown plants and a mortar and pestle to reconstruct classic liqueurs and spirits—including ‘Campari,’ absinthe and amaro—often to order. 

Friday, 17 November 2023

When Has War Ever Been ‘Proportional’?

Hamas strives for a more disproportionate terrorist agenda to prolong the war. And Israel strives for a more disproportionate retaliation to end it.



Hamas Götterdämmerung

Gaza City, 2023, would be a site instantly familiar to any witness to Berlin, 1945.



What If Money Expired?

A long-forgotten German economist argued that society and the economy would be better off if money was a perishable good. 



Loved, Yet Lonely

You might have the unconditional love of family and friends and yet feel deep loneliness. Can philosophy explain why?



Why We’ll Never Live in Space

Medical, financial and ethical hurdles stand in the way of the dream to settle in space.



The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life

The race is on to put hotels in space and neighborhoods on the moon. Here’s some of what we know about how Earthlings fare beyond the safety of our home world.



Sunday, 12 November 2023