"When people talk about toilet to tap, I always say it's not toilet to tap, it's toilet to treatment to treatment to treatment to treatment to tap. So it's being treated more than our water supply." ...

"I asked the world's top ageing scientists what actually works. They kept giving me the same unglamorous answer." ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

Advancements in renewable energy are paving the way for a new climate politics. The environmentalist Bill McKibben articulates some of the possibilities in this new era of energy abundance.

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By Bill Simmons Page 2 columnist. Just so you know, my original plan for today's column was a review of the 2002 Masters Tournament, which fell apart after I lapsed into a coma du ...

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Launceston’s Nathan Waterhouse was walking uphill on Mt Victoria, in Tasmania’s North East, when a quick stop for a rest and ...

There’s a trend in public commentary to attribute young Americans’ openness to socialist or communist ideas to laziness or ...

WHEN SAUL BELLOW’S RAVELSTEIN came out in 2000, some took it personally. The character Abe Ravelstein, a gay man who dies of complications from AIDS, was a thinly disguised Allan Bloom, Bellow’s ...

But Spangler Candy World exists in glorious, sugar-coated reality, proving that the best surprises often come from the most ...