I was the first IVF baby – if anything had gone wrong, the world would look different now
When Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first IVF baby, was about to be born – by planned C-section on a Tuesday night in July ...
Never Let Me go at the Bristol Old Vic was 'very fulfilling'
The story develops through Kathy's relationship with Ruth, Matilda Bailes, her selfish best friend at school, selfish to the ...
A vision of a terrible future – so how close are we to it?
As with much of Ali Smith’s fiction, whether novels or short stories, there’s a fairy tale quality to Gliff.  Nothing sugary or ...
Cacti Are Surprisingly Fragile And Five Other Intriguing Facts About These Spiky Wonders
This discovery highlights a hidden sensitivity in cacti. Even Arizona's mighty saguaros have struggled under recent heatwaves ...
New York Sun9d
Let’s Spare a Thought for Britain’s Suella Braverman — a Prophetess Without Honor in Her Own Troubled Country
She, who understood why the Tories lost the election, may well go down in history as the great lost leader of the once-United ...
National Catholic Register20d
Atheism Is Fading, But This Uglier Beast Is Taking Its Place
“Our technological and secularized world is full of magicians, occultism, spiritualism, astrologers, sellers of spells and amulets, and unfortunately real satanic sects. Chased out the door, the ...
The Daily Telegraph29d
JK Rowling reveals she twice turned down a peerage
In 2012, she was granted the Freedom of the City of London for services to children’s literature ... CS Lewis, Roald Dahl and Aldous Huxley also refused a KBE. It is customary that both ...
Champion Dodgers unite a diverse Los Angeles, a city more grit than glamour
Valenzuela’s arrival in particular proved pivotal for the Dodgers franchise in mirroring the city. The Mexican-born pitcher ...
24 hours of horror with Robert Eggers
Need Halloween plans? Spend 24 hours watching Gothic horror films handpicked by Nosferatu filmmaker Robert Eggers.
Manila Bulletin23d
Impossible dreams
The mothers would know but the children would be raised by the state ... but others decided it was a lost cause so in its place, they invented dystopia—H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell. But ...
The Indian Express25d
How Hinduism has captured the American imagination
The literary tradition of Hinduism would be accelerated further by America’s next generation of intellectuals such as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell and ... to great lengths to pass it along to their ...