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On 21 July the first stage of France’s plan to pressurise its population into getting vaccinated will take effect, with vaccine passports required for entry to cultural venues such as theatres and cin

Updated at 8:06 p.m. ET on July 20, 2021 Conservatives are not necessarily vaccine-hesitant, to paraphrase John Stuart Mill, but most vaccine-hesitant Americans people are conservatives . Resistance t

Quantized Columns January 26, 2021 The relationships among the properties of flexible shapes have fascinated mathematicians for centuries. Read Later Maggie Chiang for Quanta Magazine If you’re lookin

When is an Agricole Not an Agricole? Lately I’ve seen two American-made cane spirits being sold as either “agricole” or “agricole style” rum. Both are made from what they term “evaporated cane juice”.

When Jedd Haas started his distillery Atelier Vie in New Orleans in the early aughts, rice whiskey wasn’t in the plan. But with other distillers already making Louisiana sugar cane rum, he wanted a wa

It was almost inevitable that David Turner would end up in the Scotch whisky industry — rather a matter of when, not if. He grew up on Islay and his grandfather worked at Bowmore for decades. Working

Of all the things in a distillery that could spark (pun intended) a fire or explosion, electrical systems and equipment are at the top of the list, followed closely by static electricity and open flam

In a 2019 Washington Post Magazine article, “ The Sommeliers of Everything ,” writer Jason Wilson tackles industry certifications to become a recognized expert in honey, chocolate, and cider. In hopes

The impact of South Africa’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, including the imposition of prohibition, have left up to 300 million litres of wine unsold as the next harvest approaches. The closure

Cameron Diaz gives a happy sigh. “I’m really excited,” she says to her friend Katherine Power. On the table are two bottles of their new wine, Avaline, launched mid-July. The Goop rush: why celebritie

I t is one of the most contentious aspects of video game playing – a debate where opposing sides literally cannot see each other’s perspective. When the Guardian ran an article asking why a large mino

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Top highlight Knowing when not to talk is an art. Tim Denning Jul 28 · 4 min read Image Credit: fwo3.com/AMC As a corporate man by day, and an entrepreneur by night, I’ve attended my fair share of mee

PC users may jump ship, but that is a slow process. You don’t leave immediately a platform you are heavily invested in. Here we get a big problem with the Intel and AMD business model. Their business models are based on selling general purpose CPUs, which people just slot onto a large PC…

A Politician Takes a Sledgehammer to His Own Ego Just in time for Easter, the story of a blind state leader who is giving up his office to join the Jesuits. By Opinion Columnist April 11, 2020 Cyrus H

In the distant past, there was a proverbial “digital divide” that bifurcated workers into those who knew how to use computers and those who didn’t.[1] Young Gen Xers and their later millennial compani

We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. Part 1: Meet Your Mammoth The first day I was in second grade, I came to school and noticed that there was a new, very p

During Barack Obama’s presidency, Joe Biden’s propensity for cutting deals with Mitch McConnell became a running source of aggravation for liberals. Now it will be the key to getting anything done at

With the current era of rum gathering steam toward a golden age, an exciting by-product is the ready availability of full-throated, hogo-licious Jamaican rums. The intense, overripe banana and pineapp

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In Facebook posts and public appearances, Indian politician T. Raja Singh has said Rohingya Muslim immigrants should be shot, called Muslims traitors and threatened to raze mosques. Facebook Inc. empl

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The learning never stops. For several years I’ve endeavored to understand the flavor science and history behind Jamaican rum’s unique hogo. As part of that I’ve visited every Jamaican rum distillery,

‘It is always a bit troubling in the current environment when websites don’t really indicate what they’re all about,’ said Matt Gertz.Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA In March this year, the small Illinois town of Hinsdale, in the western Chicago suburbs, was facing a crisis. The village’s district…

Since the early 2000s, Indonesia’s continuously growing internet economy has made the country one of Southeast Asia’s most lucrative markets. This has caught the attention of the nation’s wealthiest f

When it comes to shopping in a pandemic, turns out the two things people crave are comfort and convenience. It’s why Amazon sales are projected to see a year-over-year sales jump of nearly 22% in the first quarter. It’s why it feels like everyone with an Instagram account has been baking sourdough…

A still from the 1963 film of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.Photograph: Ronald Grant F or centuries western culture has been permeated by the idea that humans are selfish creatures. That cynical

Given the dozens of new bottlings released every month, the limited amount of alcohol our livers can (and should) take, as well as our all too narrow budgets, orientation is key when it comes to buyin

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Earlier this month, what could have been the worst aviation accident in history was narrowly averted. An Air Canada pilot mistakenly lined up to land on a taxiway , instead of a parallel runway, at Sa

If you’re headed into some important meeting, you might down a cup or two of coffee without thinking much of it, hoping the caffeine will provide your brain with an extra boost. But in his new book on personality science, psychologist Brian Little suggests that for introverts, this strategy may…

Albert Einstein was 16 years old when he first flirted with the idea of special relativity. He was a daydreamer. The pioneering theory that lead him to establish the foundation of modern physics was actually envisioned in one of his many famous thought experiments. He wondered, specifically, what…

Learning a new language is hard — especially if you're an adult, especially if you're busy, and especially if the language is based on really different sounds than your native tongue. Hard, but not impossible. In Scientific American , Veronique Greenwood highlights two recent studies that suggest…

Leer en español Dr. James is a leading ophthalmologist at a major medical clinic. Passionate about medicine, he wanted to hire someone to run the business operations of his practice. He carefully revi

Who, Me? Today is Monday the 58th of March 2020. As a service to stop the days blurring into one, take a moment to enjoy a tale of NetWare, Blu Tack and a broken pencil in today's Who, Me? reader confession. This time we return to the 1990s, and to a region of Australia that our protagonist, a…