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1.Elijah, 5, asks: what colour is the sun? 2.Luna, 7, asks: how do things glow in the dark? 3.Charlie, 5, asks: at a rocket launch, why do we count the numbers backwards? 4.Gretel, 7, asks: why don’t mosquitoes bite...
It’s April, so it’s time to continue our tracking of the ebb and flow of April foolery in crossword puzzles. In brief, the good times continue.I haven’t yet found any cryptics of the rule-bending variety, but, avoiding spoilers, would...
An army dude once told me, “A speech should be like a lady’s skirt: short enough to be interesting, long enough to cover the main points”, and I said, “Wait, can we just clarify what the main points of...
Cabbage is one of my favourite ingredients. I love it for its versatility, and also because it’s nutritious and incredibly satisfying to cook with. I’ve been putting cabbage on my menus for more than two decades now, and at...
Tired of swiping, singles are attending flirting parties and even dating-oriented run clubs in hopes of meeting their future partner in real life.But even those lack the romanticism of a true meet-cute. The Brooklyn-based stationery brand No Particular Order...
I suppose you could say I got Benny from the shops. In 2006, he and his brother ambushed me outside a supermarket in Bahrain. They were trying to climb into the bags of shopping I was carrying to get...
More than 30 years ago, I set out to build my dream house in a small rural town. It was a stressful process exacerbated by a demanding career that required me to travel across Asia and the Pacific for...
After 12 years of renting, I’ve known my fair share of landlords – although “known” is probably the wrong term. I don’t usually meet them in person and rarely speak to them directly, only communicating through a managing estate...
“There’s no such thing as a bad texter. They just don’t want to respond,” said influencer Delaney Rowe last year on the online talkshow Subway Takes. “People go around thinking being a bad texter is like a pathology, but...
