India, Dec. 14 -- There are no teams; no winners or losers. No one is ever knocked out. There is just a seething mass of players, taking turns to be king. An ancient version of dodgeball is played rat... Read More
India, Nov. 21 -- (Excerpted with permission from Questions Without Answers by Sarah Manguso, illustrated by Liana Finck, published by Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random... Read More
India, Nov. 21 -- * Are you the same person when you're sleeping? * Why did animal control send a person to help that squirrel? Wasn't there an animal that could help him? * Will I grow tall like pa... Read More
India, Nov. 14 -- "It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism," Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett write, in Good Omens (1990). Through history, the kitche... Read More
India, Nov. 14 -- "It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism," Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett write, in Good Omens (1990). Through history, the kitche... Read More
India, Nov. 14 -- About 90 years ago, people risked prison for the sake of pasta. Benito Mussolini launched a campaign against the staple in Italy, in the 1930s, and tried to promote rice instead. Ri... Read More
India, Nov. 9 -- "The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to no... Read More
India, Nov. 8 -- "The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to no... Read More
India, Nov. 1 -- Ant-Man may be fictional, but the insect world is full of superheroes, of a kind. There's a spider with a lethal high-speed trap. Worms that can knot and unknot themselves. An acroba... Read More
India, Nov. 1 -- Ant-Man may be fictional, but the insect world is full of superheroes, of a kind. There's a spider with a lethal high-speed trap. Worms that can knot and unknot themselves. An acroba... Read More