I nearly drove into a wall the other day, because I couldn’t take my eyes off some spectacular wisteria. Ten years ago I doubt I would have even noticed it, or known what it was, never mind been so...
My mother is in her 70s and addicted to playing video games such as Tetris, many different versions of solitaire and slot machine gambling games.In the 1990s my parents bought a desktop computer and my mum started to play...
A notification on my smartwatch warns me that I’m in a loud environment, and I’m not surprised. Casemiro just played an impudent no-look pass into the penalty area. His Brazilian compatriot, Matheus Cunha, receives the ball on the half-turn...
When West Footscray resident Sean Brown takes his 19-month-old boy to the park, their walk passes an imposing new building cheerily spruiked as “Australia’s largest hyperscale AI factory”, a datacentre called M3.He hates it: the construction noise from its...
I clearly remember the first time I had a soda because it was the same day Jack Nicholson threw up on me. Deliberately. He’d burst through the doors of a church and began a profanity-riddled tirade against God and...
Anonymity has been an intriguing concept for ASA since they first took up photography. They shot this image in their home town of Bastia, on the French island of Corsica. This was 2018, in the height of summer, “when...
Many mothers will want one of two things for Mother’s Day: time with her family, or a moment of peace and quiet. But if you insist on showing up to brunch next Sunday with a physical item in tow,...
For many young people, the dating game has been nothing but a thankless task of endless swiping and ghosting, with little hope of finding love.But as dating apps fall out of favour, and a relationship recession looms, young singles...
During the two-month endurance test that was The Devil Wears Prada 2’s global press tour, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway hinted that the long-awaited sequel to the 2006 hit would champion body diversity. In interviews, both actors explained that...
1.Alfred, 7, asks: why does nature sleep in the winter? 2.Mabel, 11, asks: do all countries have a prime minister or president? 3.Ezio, 10, asks: what is the name of Sooty’s female panda friend? 4.Leo, 6, and Rosa, 4,...
