nonfiction
Amongst the Sparrows
One of my favourite small pleasures in life is to sit with an espresso and watch the sparrows—something that can be experienced in almost every city around the world.
5 April 2018
Can an Individual’s Choice Make a Difference in the Face of Global Warming?
Katie Doherty on an individual’s choice in the face of global warming
5 April 2018
Can Love Cure Addiction?
Any first-year psych student knows the story. A mouse is placed in a box with two levers. One delivers food on demand—the other, cocaine. Come back five days later and you will find the outcome is always the same: having tasted euphoria, the mouse has starved itself to death.
5 April 2018
Queer as Mud
The most infamous tale of star-crossed lovers declares: “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” And yet, in classic Shakespearean irony, it is the names of Capulet and Montague affixed to both the hero and heroine that predicate their deaths. Were it not for the attachment of their […]
4 April 2018
Harry Potter and the Magic of Medicine
Despite Harry Potter being a magical universe where logic need not apply, some elements are closer to science fiction than true magic: Tessa Marshall writes.
2 April 2018
Ticket, Please
Lily Raynes on surviving the public transport system with a minimum of dignity
2 April 2018