Yesterday started with a truly remarkable piece of TV broadcasting: Tiger Woods capped an incredible comeback from personal (self-inflicted) turmoil and physical injury with his first major championsh

In July 2004, I went to Madras, wore fancy clothes and collected a laminated piece of paper. The piece of paper, formally called “Bachelor of Technology”, certified three things. First, it said that I

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We’ve won!!! One newspaper headline told us, “Cheers Boris, Back to a Brighter Britain.” Other papers were full of articles such as “ Boris Johnson ’s brave battling spirit has sent the spores of filt

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Jun 3rd 2020 ONE OF THE great thrills of reading is encountering a situation that is familiar in feeling yet alien in context. So it is on reaching chapter nine of “Jane Eyre”, in which the narrator,

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There is this joke going around that the ongoing Covid-19 crisis has turned everyone into an epidemiologist, like how the 2008 Global Financial Crisis turned everyone into an economist. In fact, lockd

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The pandemic has shown America’s cracks in our system but racism has exposed all of America’s flaws down to its core. We have reached a boiling point thanks to Trump fueling the fire and our streets h

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We have settled in with our kids and friends on the east end of Long Island. It took some time to enter the commune as they have been settled in since mid-March. We just arrived in early May. One on h

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Apr 25th 2020 Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today , our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here . For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hub A PART FROM the…

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May 2nd 2020 Y OU MIGHT think that a nostalgic novel about a declining 19th-century Sicilian aristocrat by an unknown writer would have sunk without trace. Yet Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s “The Leopard”, first published in 1958 shortly after his death, became a classic. One reason is that it is an…

Who are you, and what do you do? My name is Jono and I'm finishing up my MFA in New Media at Paris College of Art. I mix graphic design and computer programming to connect and question things. As such I often pair distinct subjects to frame this creative process. The combinations range from latin…

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Dear Google. Here is a humble suggestion from us as cyclists, especially urgent in Corona times. We see how people around the world turn to the bicycle to get to where they are going and at the same time avoid overcrowded busses and trams. Here is where you both can be a part, and improve! One of…

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Apr 23rd 2020 T O THOSE WHO spend their days working with pens and keyboards, a watercolour paintbrush can induce a faint anxiety. Its very lightness and delicacy suggests that great skill is needed to deploy it. Names of the master watercolourists rise troublingly to mind: Cotman for his wooded…

Apr 18th 2020 A MONG MANY other achievements, Bertrand Russell is the only philosopher to have cut an album of his work. Released in 1962, “Bertrand Russell Speaking” was a greatest hits of the many interviews he had given. Subjects range from science and religion on side A , to “taboo morality” and…

Tags covid-19 , leadership , polis Categories Crisis Our Colorado governor, Jared Polis, displayed an amazing act of leadership in his response to what I consider a question posed in an extreme and divisive way yesterday. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis gets choked up when he's asked about people who have…

Use Firebase Realtime Database to implement an easy yet powerful API cache for your mobile apps. In the previous post , we learned how to use Firebase Cloud Functions to clean up a backend response and make it more mobile friendly. In this post, we are going to show how to use Firebase Realtime…

Apr 18th 2020 “I T CAN BE bought everywhere and in all the shops for very little money,” observed Goethe on a visit to Naples in 1787. “As a rule it is simply cooked in water and seasoned with grated cheese.” Pasta’s economy and convenience have since helped it conquer the world. Supermarkets from…

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Upcycling is a 21st century term, coined by Cradle to Cradle authors William McDonough and Michael Braungart, but the idea of turning waste into useful products came to life brilliantly in 1963 with the Heineken WOBO (world bottle). Envisioned by beer brewer Alfred Heineken and designed by Dutch…