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By Kevin Pang What happens when an aging prizefighter, a quirky gadget, and iconic ’90s marketing combine to take over the world? In case you missed it, this is what the world’s most successful infomercial looks like: George Foreman—buff, bald, and swaggering—sports a...
I found out through Facebook. On a recent Friday evening, I was scrolling through posts and noticed one from a young friend who lives in the U.S., who wrote, “Friends, please send love and healing thoughts. My husband has a high fever, 102 degrees with aches and he’s...
By Stephy Chung As the world grapples with unprecedented lockdown measures, Ai Weiwei finds himself in familiar territory. The outspoken artist spent nearly three months in a tiny room while detained by authorities in China in 2011. He was later accused of tax...
The llama could become humanity's new "best friend", perhaps. An unexpected ally in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic that plagues the world. It is not something new, of course. The Incas already made the most of it for its meat, its wool, and also as a pack...
By Ed Konderla I have been disheartened by how many expats post articles on these pages that appear to me to reflect weak, selfish characters. Characters you don’t expect mature people to have after living abundant lives full of opportunity that most of us have had...
By John Keeble Hey, Daddy, what did you do in The Great Pandemic of 2020? Well, son, I stayed at home, drank a lot of wine, and thought. But, Daddy, couldn't you have done something more important than think? Actually, son, no. Thinking was the most important thing...
By Bernard Avishai Nassim Nicholas Taleb is “irritated,” he told Bloomberg Television on March 31, whenever the coronavirus pandemic is referred to as a “black swan,” the term he coined for an unpredictable, rare, catastrophic event, in his best-selling 2007 book of...
By Niclas Rolander Sweden’s unusual approach to fighting the coronavirus pandemic is starting to yield results, according to the country’s top epidemiologist. Anders Tegnell, the architect behind Sweden’s relatively relaxed response to Covid-19, told local media the...
Editor's note: As people try measures against coronavirus transmission, such as cleaning and sanitising their groceries to remove any potential droplets on surfaces, many are wondering if freezing or refrigerating their shopping is enough to kill the virus. Healthy...
By Bill Ward Conventional wisdom holds that the older we get, the harder it is to learn a new language. Which is true — except when it’s not. Turns out that while our brains might not be as quick or deft as in those halcyon days of youth, all that hard-earned...
By Ray Horsley In a different time, place, and dimension there was once a land of many tribes. Each one had a chief, many elders, and a large number of native peoples who were born to the tribe. These tribal leaders and their advisors had tremendous control over their...
By John P. Ioannidis The current coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco. At a time when everyone needs better information, from disease modelers and governments to people...
By Tim Lister and Sebastian Shukla Much of Europe is still on coronavirus lockdown, with severe restrictions on movement and penalties for those who transgress. But not Sweden. Restaurants and bars are open in the Nordic country, playgrounds and schools too, and the...
A global condom shortage is looming as the coronavirus pandemic shutters factories and disrupts supply chains, the world's top maker of the contraceptives said, with the United Nations warning of "devastating" consequences. Adding to the supply pressure,...
By Louis Bourgeois I am being called this morning to begin writing in earnest, as we collectively "cocoon" around the world. In my writing as Sun King, I speak from a "place" that I call the energy body. I encourage any who are reading this post to accept that we have...
By Carolyn Kormann For thousands of years, a parasite with no name lived happily among horseshoe bats in southern China. The bats had evolved to the point that they did not notice; they went about their nightly flights unbothered. One day, the parasite — an ancestor...
By Ellen Birkens The United Nations estimates that as many as 200,000 travelers are stranded in countries around the world with many facing insurmountable obstacles to getting home. "The onset of travel restrictions aimed at the coronavirus was so sudden that many...
Facing stiff criticism, the U.S. Treasury Department changed course late Wednesday and announced that Social Security beneficiaries and other Americans who haven’t filed income taxes for the past two years won’t have to take any extra steps to receive one-time checks...
By Molly Wood At a moment when you would strongly prefer it to stay healthy, the U.S. office of Health and Human Services was the target of a cyberattack. Reports say the agency’s servers were hit this week with what’s known as a distributed denial of service attack,...
By Tara John There's a lot about Iceland that other countries could envy: Its spectacular natural surroundings, its place among the world's happiest countries, and, now, its large-scale testing for the novel coronavirus, which could influence how the world understands...
