Want to pretend to live on Mars? Apply now Posted October 18, 2021 Want to find your inner Matt Damon and spend a year pretending you are isolated on Mars? NASA has a job for you. To prepare for eventually sending astronauts t…
Views and Visions: Colorful idioms Part 2 Posted October 17, 2021 Continued from Part 1… White elephants are rare albino elephants that are seen as sacred and venerated in parts of South Asia. White elephants were so…
Views and Visions: Colorful idioms Part 1 Posted October 16, 2021 This month we will look at some common English idioms that use color to express an idea or feeling. Some people say that lying is always wrong. However, there are “white lies,”…
Man with COVID disguises as wife on flight Posted October 15, 2021 An Indonesian man with the coronavirus boarded a domestic flight disguised as his wife, wearing a niqab covering his face and carrying fake IDs and a nega…
Landmark UN report: Climate disruption locked in for decades, if not centuries Posted October 14, 2021 Global warming is dangerously close to spiraling out of control, a U.N. climate panel said in a landmark report Aug. 9, warning the world is already certain to fa…
25 Greatest Inventions of the 20th Century: The electric washing machine Posted October 13, 2021 In the bad old days, washing clothes was a chore that took up the whole day, involving buckets and buckets of water and back-breaking scrubbing on hard washboards. The strong soap…
News Mash-up: Political Prison Sentences Posted October 12, 2021 US Capitol rioter gets 8 months for felony A crane operator from Florida who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a …
Journalist dad discovers that social media isn’t all that bad Posted October 11, 2021 These days it’s hard to feel optimistic about social media, especially if you’re working in the news industry. But journalist McKay Coppins discovered it’s not all that bad — in f…
Views & Visions: Three’s a crowd Part 2 Posted October 10, 2021 Continued from Part 1… Can a family of four — for example, two parents and their children — sit together? After all, it would seem fairly obvious that…
Views & Visions: Three’s a crowd Part 1 Posted October 9, 2021 Some questions have become redundant in Singapore recently. A while ago, it was, “Eating in or takeaway?” With a spike in COVID-19 clusters and community infec…