‘Junk food’ and the consumer blame game
Junk food versus healthy food – why are we always blaming consumers for ‘bad’ food choices?
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Education and art for all: Castro’s cultural legacy
Images of Castro as either a monster or saviour miss the mark, but his commitment to literacy and culture is undeniable.
Cocktails have transformed from drinks into aphrodisiac experiences
Today’s trendiest booze makers and bars insist on going rather further than the simple imbibing of alcohol.
Game of Thrones: The Mountain has revealed his giant diet … here’s what it would do to you
Try starting with 12,000 kcals a day.
What happens to your brain when you’re pregnant – clumsiness, food cravings, and moodiness?
Part two: neuroscience reveals why mood swings, clumsiness and strange food cravings go hand in hand with pregnancy.
Roald Dahl’s wonderful Wales: how growing up Welsh moulded the Anglo‑Norwegian writer
An idyllic childhood in Wales inspired one of the world’s most treasured children’s writers in unexpected ways.
Eight bedtime stories to read to children of all ages
These books will kickstart a lifelong love of reading, and build a bedtime bond between parent and child.
Here’s what happens to your brain when you give up sugar for Lent
Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Pennsylvania – the “Chocolate Capital…
Rivals: the highs and lows of adapting a 1980s ‘bonkbuster’ for a 21st‑century TV audience
Even those unfamiliar with the genre will no doubt enjoy the adaption of Jilly Cooper’s frothy novel. But how will the TV version approach the less savoury attitudes that were prevalent in the 1980s?
McCarthy sex toy sculpture Tree piques prickly French right
Paul McCarthy, the granddaddy of shock conceptual art, has gone and done it again. In a globally reported move, part-installation and part promotional-stunt to mark the imminent opening of Paris’s Foire…
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