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When T. Renee Garner was 32 weeks pregnant with her son, she was rushed to the hospital with extremely high blood pressure, her foetus in distress. Intravenous medication lowered her blood pressure and her baby was delivered safely before being taken to the neonatal intensive care unit. But when Garner went to visit him there the next day, she still wasn’t well, and she began experiencing leg cramping so severe it left her weeping in the hospital. Then everything went black – for three days. Doctors determined that Garner’s coma was the result of a severe electrolyte imbalance – her sodium had dropped precipitously – caused by the IV medication she’d received. Garner says that while she was in the coma, she heard a siren and then the words “it died”,…

What happened Donald Trump surrendered to prosecutors on Tuesday after becoming the first former US president in history to be charged with a criminal offence. He was fingerprinted, read his rights and bailed. A grand jury in New York had voted last week to indict the 76-year-old, having decided that there was sufficient evidence to launch criminal proceedings. Trump reportedly faces multiple counts related to business fraud. The case centres on hush money Trump paid to the porn actress Stormy Daniels through his then lawyer Michael Cohen shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Cohen gave Daniels $130,000 to stop her selling her account of an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, which the former president has always denied. Trump later reimbursed Cohen, payments that were designated as legal fees. Trump condemned…

What happened Unions representing NHS workers collectively accepted a pay offer from the Government this week, in a step that ministers hope will end much of the industrial action affecting the health service. Reached a day after nurses in England staged their latest 24-hour walkout, the deal gives more than a million NHS staff in England, including nurses and ambulance workers, a 5% pay rise, and a one-off payment of at least £1,655. It was agreed at a meeting between ministers and the NHS Staff Council, which is made up of 14 health unions covering all NHS staff except doctors and dentists. However, two of those unions – the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Unite – declined to be party to the deal, and announced plans to re-ballot their members…

“I CALL THIS MY RIPPIN’ RASPBERRY SLICE BECAUSE IT’S A TOTALLY TASTE BUD-TANTALISING COMBINATION OF FLAVOURS AND TEXTURES. THE NOSTALGIC COMBINATION OF SQUIDGY MARSHMALLOW, TART AND TANGY RASPBERRIES, SMOOTH DARK CHOCOLATE AND BUTTERY BISCUIT WILL BAKE THE DAY OF ADULTS AND KIDS ALIKE.”“HIT THE SPOT WITH THIS HEAVENLY RICH CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT CHEESECAKE. IT’S A REAL CROWD-PLEASER. YOU CAN MAKE THIS RECIPE AHEAD OF TIME BECAUSE IT FREEZES BEAUTIFULLY. WHILE THIS CHEESECAKE DOESN’T TAKE LONG TO PUT TOGETHER, IT DOES NEED AMPLE TIME TO CHILL BEFORE ADDING THE DECADENT TOPPING.” I’ve always believed home bakers are the best kinds of friends. You see, we home bakers come as a sweet package – a special part of our personality is devoted to conjuring up sweet ways to make friends. There’s something very simple yet…

If you think your life is too boring to be funny, joke’s on you: humor is all around us. Cultivating more humor in your everyday life is “one of the fastest and most powerful ways to increase overall health and well-being,” says Steven M. Sultanoff, a clinical psychologist and professor at Pepperdine University who studies how people can benefit from the healing powers of humor. “The experience of humor and distressing emotions can’t occupy the same psychological space,” he says. Adding humor to your daily life can lead to a wide array of benefits. Research suggests that it sparks energy, boosts brainpower, improves immunity, curbs stress, and improves mood. Some of those benefits stem from laughter, which is the physical response to humor, Sultanoff says. But not everyone laughs when they’re amused—and…

CARL ELLIOTT teaches philosophy and bioethics at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of several books, including Lonesome Whistle, about whistleblowers, which will be published next year. It started with selfies. Hannah had never taken a selfie before, or even given the idea much thought. She was a tenured 39-year-old psychology professor at a New England college. But eight days after she started on pramipexole, a drug prescribed off-label by her psychiatrist for depression and anxiety, Hannah began taking photos of herself obsessively. She couldn’t explain the desire. At the time, it didn’t even seem especially strange. Neither did the hats. She just felt like wearing them—or, really, any item that would cover her head. A gray wig. A red fedora. A spider-webbed fascinator. A vintage, canary-yellow beehive cap. Ordinarily…

In the four months since ChatGPT was made available to the public, the AI-assisted chatbot has become an object of amusement and wonder, said Sue Halpern in The New Yorker. Users have found that it can write everything from verse in iambic pentameter to plot outlines for novels. It can spell the chord progression and time signature for a tune, and devise successful appeals to parking fines. And all the time, it is getting cleverer. The first model failed the US bar exam; the latest one, GPT-4, sailed through. Small wonder that while millions of ordinary users were having fun setting it ever more challenging tasks last month, Goldman Sachs analysts were quietly calculating how many jobs AI could gobble up, said Jack Kelly in Forbes. They came up with…

Our handsome waiter exclaims “Et voila! as he presents me with a platter of local favourites. Wafts of fragrance permeate my nostrils and I audibly “mmm.” While I’m eager to eat, I also want to savour the moment. Leaning back in my chair, the balmy afternoon heat soaking into my bones, I take in my surroundings. Tucked down a tiny laneway, I seem to be the only foreigner sitting in this tiny, traditional brasserie. French families chatter and laugh either side of me, church bells toll in the distance, and the heavenly sound of wine corks popping – followed by the satisfying “glug glug” and the clink of glass against glass – fills my ears. There are few people who haven’t heard of Bordeaux. In fact, its mere mention is enough to…

WITH THE CRUNCH OF TOASTED SEEDS AND CREAMY FETA, THIS ELEVATED TAKE ON ROASTED VEG IS EASY TO WHIP UP AND GREAT FOR FEEDING A CROWDWITH A CRUNCHY SEMOLINA COATING AND IRRESISTIBLE SALT & VINEGAR FLAVOUR PAIRING, THESE SEXY SPUDS ARE A FESTIVE MUSTTHIS FIVE-STAR SIDE IS NO ORDINARY SALAD. SPICED POTATOES AND CHICKPEAS NESTLE AMONGST CRUNCHY ICEBERG WEDGES ON A CREAMY YOGHURT BASE INDIAN-SPICED POTATO AND ICEBERG SALAD WITH YOGHURT SERVES 4-6 1kg chat potatoes, halved or quartered, depending on size400g can chickpeas, drained, rinsed¼ cup (60ml) vegetable oil, plus extra to shallow fry1 tsp each cumin seeds, brown mustard seeds and crushed coriander seeds1 tsp ground turmericFinely grated zest of 1 lime, plus lime halves to serve2 long green chillies, thinly sliced1 small onion, thinly sliced and separated into rings3 curry…

Un air de Méditerranée au jardin Le romarin est une plante que l’on croise à l’état sauvage dans plusieurs régions côtières du pourtour méditerranéen. Ce n’est donc pas un hasard si on le trouve dans de nombreuses recettes typiques de cette région du monde. Il fait d’ailleurs partie des mélanges d’herbes de Provence, tout comme des épices italiennes. En avoir à l’année Une façon simple d’avoir du romarin local en toute saison est de profiter de son abondance au jardin et dans les marchés pour en faire sécher. En effet, il fait partie des fines herbes qui se prêtent très bien à la déshydratation à l’air libre (comme le thym ou l’origan). Pour cela, il suffit d’attacher quelques tiges ensemble à l’aide d’une ficelle et de suspendre ce petit bouquet, tête en bas,…

Paul-Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, on October 15th, 1926, to an upper-middle-class bourgeoise family. He excelled in his education yet rejected much of his upbringing. Foucault’s work as a philosopher and historian of ideas radically influenced the historical method as well as many other fields apart from philosophy. The influence that Foucault had upon literature, philosophy, history, and psychology, was groundbreaking, and caused many interdisciplinary changes. While Foucault did not abide labels regarding his philosophy, his work was instrumental in influencing post-modernism and post-structuralism. His central interests were in the understanding power and knowledge. He argued that knowledge is used as a form of social control. The History of Foucault Michel Foucault studied philosophy and psychology at the Ecole Normale Superieure under Professor Louis Althusser, whose students also included Jacques…

FRANCE Don’t deprive Paris of its eco-friendly “trots” RTL (Paris) Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater, says Martial You. Earlier this month, Parisians voted to make their city the first European capital to outlaw rented e-scooters. They may be popular with the young, but when riders of these “trottinettes”, as they’re known, speed along busy streets or pavements, they cause consternation among older residents. So when Paris’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, put their use to a referendum, 90% of voters backed a ban – which the authorities say they will now impose. Really? Is that such a good idea for a town that wants to remain the world’s “number one tourist city”? Bear in mind that turnout for this referendum was a “ridiculous” 8%. Besides, most of the arguments against “trots” don’t…

What happened More than 120 world leaders gathered in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh this week, as the UN’s Cop27 climate summit got under way against a backdrop of sombre reports suggesting that it may be too late to prevent catastrophic global warming. Rishi Sunak, France’s President Macron and Germany’s Olaf Scholz were among those to address delegates at the 13-day summit. Joe Biden was also due to attend; but China’s President Xi and Russia’s Vladimir Putin were set to miss the conference. In a speech on Monday – his first on the international stage – Sunak said the war in Ukraine was a reason to “act faster” on renewables to improve energy security. Tackling climate change is both a moral responsibility and an economic necessity, he said. Negotiations were expected…

IN JULY, A PAIR OF SENATORS GATHERED reporters in the U.S. Capitol to deliver a message to President Joe Biden: it’s time to declare a climate emergency. It was, to be sure, something of a Hail Mary. The prospects of major climate legislation had dimmed, and the two Democrats were desperate, worried it could be years before Congress tackled climate change in a meaningful way. “Am I concerned that it will be a decade before we have a climate majority?” said Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, alongside Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. “I am damn concerned.” Less than three weeks later, Democratic Senators walked off the Senate floor in celebration after passing the Inflation Reduction Act, the most significant climate legislation in U.S. history. Once the House of Representatives passes…

It’s been two years since Paul Farag and his team first discovered the Aalia site, located below Harry Seidler’s MLC Centre, now refreshed as 25 Martin Place. Incorporating the skills learnt at Monopole and Fish Butchery, Farag has set out to rethink the idea of Middle Eastern cuisine. “I wanted to create a venue that championed and pioneered a respect for a culture and cuisine that’s been around for such a long time,” says Farag. It was his head chef posting at Surry Hills’ Nour that was a springboard for Farag to explore his Egyptian roots, before delving deeper at Aalia. The menu is made up of elegant dishes with a sharp focus on seafood. “When people think of the Middle East, they think of dry, desert land. Not many think…

In November 2020, Jack Teixeira wrote a letter to the local police chief asking him to reconsider allowing him to own guns. The Dighton, Mass., police had denied the 18-year-old’s two previous requests for a firearms license, citing an incident when Teixeira was suspended for alleged violent and racial threats, including comments about guns at school. This time, Teixeira’s pleas worked. As a newly minted member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, he had recently received a top-secret security clearance. “The investigation process was extremely thorough,” he wrote to the police chief, arguing that the U.S. government had deemed him qualified to become “a person that now has the national trust to safeguard classified information.” That trust turned out to be misplaced. In April, Teixeira was arrested and charged with posting classified…

The generation denied a home of their own Liam Halligan The Daily Telegraph “We cannot become the party of Nimbyism.” That’s the plea that former housing secretary Simon Clarke made to his fellow Tories last week and they should pay heed, says Liam Halligan. For this country is desperately short of homes. We built some three million in the 1960s, but only a third that number in the decade from 2010. France and Germany have 528 and 510 dwellings per thousand inhabitants, the UK 409. So while French house prices have risen by 180% in real terms since 1970 and German ones by just 40%, British house prices shot up more than 400%. Yet the Tories are still failing to tackle the shortfall; still stoking demand with a Help to Buy scheme that…

Eczema linked to osteoarthritis If you suffer from eczema, or asthma, you may have a heightened risk of developing osteoarthritis, a Stanford University-led study has found. The discovery raises the possibility that the conditions have the same underlying causes – and could pave the way for treatments for osteoarthritis. Researchers examined health data submitted to insurance companies by more than 110,000 Americans with asthma or eczema, and compared it with that of 110,000 others who had similar profiles, but who did not have those conditions. Once they had accounted for differences in BMI, the researchers found that those who had eczema or asthma were 58% more likely to be diagnosed with osteoarthritis during the study period than the others, while people with both conditions were twice as likely. They acknowledge that…

Magical meringue tree with winter berry compote If you’re not enthused by traditional fruitcake and want to wow your guests with something spectacular this Christmas, a tree of snow-white meringues jewelled with golden chocolate and ruby pomegranate seeds will ring the changes in style. Sweet and tangy flavours plus crisp textures offer many layers of enjoyment to match its towering scale. SERVES 8-10 PREP 1 hr 15 mins plus cooling COOK 1 hr 30 mins MORE EFFORT V 8 egg whites (about 250g; you can use the leftover yolks to make custard for a trifle)about 500g caster sugar50g slivered pistachios (available online, or use roughly chopped) For the berry compote 500g frozen mixed red berries1 orange, zested and juiced50g icing sugar For the filling 600ml double cream250ml mascarpone100g icing sugardrop of rosewater or vanilla extract To decorate chocolate-covered malted…

In early January, President Joe Biden called a Cabinet meeting in the West Wing of the White House. Over the holidays, a wave of flight cancellations by Southwest Airlines had left thousands of Americans stranded at airports for days. The face of the government response on cable news had been Biden’s Transportation Secretary and onetime rival for the Democratic nomination, Pete Buttigieg, who had been one of the Administration’s most visible talking heads for months. Multiple clips of Buttigieg holding his own against combative anchors had gone viral. When Biden saw Buttigieg, the President flashed his unnaturally white teeth. “Hey, TV,” Biden tossed at Buttigieg, say two people familiar with the meeting. It was a targeted jibe. Officials in the room saw it as a good-natured reminder to Buttigieg that while…

What happened The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announced fresh strike action in England, after its members rejected a pay offer that ministers had hoped would end their dispute. The union, which represents 465,000 nurses, had negotiated a deal that would have given its members a 5% rise this year, and a cash payment for last year. However, in a ballot they voted to reject it by 54% to 46%. In response, the RCN announced a 48-hour walkout over the next bank holiday weekend, from 30 April to 2 May. For the first time, the strike will include nurses in emergency departments and intensive care. Pat Cullen, the RCN’s general secretary, said that her members were ready to keep striking until Christmas. Last week, junior doctors in England staged their own four-day…

Four years ago, I bought myself a paperback atlas—a floppy, glossy, 200-page edition quite unlike the hardback tome that had gathered dust on my shelf for decades. And this flimsy new atlas soon altered my grasp of reality in a way so elemental that I realized I’d obtained an essential tool of knowledge and power, all for a modest $14.95. For when I found it in my local bookshop, I vowed from that day on to look up every place I encountered in my reading, no matter what. Previously, while reading, I would hear a voice in my head saying, Don’t get up. Stay on the page. You don’t really need to know where Ulan Bator or Burma or Lyme Regis is. You’ll lose the pleasure of the story … don’t…

Olly Mann presents Four Thought for BBC Radio 4, and the podcasts The Modern Mann, The Week Unwrapped and The Retrospectors When The Queen died, and newscasters were bedecked in black, and Gyles Brandreth was suddenly everywhere, one royal factoid jumped out at me: Her Majesty, it transpires, was an avid collector of stamps. She’d picked up the hobby when her grandfather George V, a pioneering philatelist, passed his precious albums down the family tree (my gramps did this, too; but sadly the stamps he collected were of the Green Shield variety. Worthless in the 21st century, they at least make for a more charming heirloom than a Nectar card). This got me thinking about how few "collections" I keep myself. I certainly possess the collecting gene: Dad sold classic cars for…

Brussels Parliamentary facelift: Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have decided to press ahead with a refurbishment of the parliament building in Brussels, the bill for which will be at least €500m (£438m) – and could top €1bn. Renovating the Spaak building has long been on the parliament’s agenda, but many felt it unwise to go ahead at a time when food and energy bills are soaring across the EU. However, an amendment to “explore savings opportunities”, introduced by the socialist grouping, was voted down, and work on the building will now begin. The parliament also plans to purchase a large office complex in Strasbourg – where the parliament has its second seat – and convert it into a luxury hotel exclusively for the use of members and their entourage. MEPs…

In Turkey—located between several plate boundaries and directly on two main fault zones—earthquakes are a fact of life. But the two that hit the country’s southern reaches on Feb. 6 brought a level of destruction that numbers can only suggest—a 7.8-magnitude quake, followed nine hours later by a temblor registering 7.5. The death toll nine days later stood at 41,000, including thousands killed across the nearby border in northern Syria. “These are the kinds of quakes we’d expect to see 10 or 20 years apart,” says Cuneyt Tuzun, an earthquake engineer based in Izmir, Turkey. “They happened within a few hours of each other.” They also happened in a country that, despite every warning, had not prepared. Ten years after a 1999 earthquake in the northern city of Izmit killed over 17,000 people,…

More than two children are killed every day, on average, in the conflict in Ukraine. Four more are injured. After over 100 days of war, almost two-thirds of Ukrainian children have been displaced. Conflict exposes the vulnerability of children, and greatly increases it. Beyond the physical harm, which is to say beyond the injuries that can be seen, there is the trauma. There’s the effect of displacement, of nights spent listening to bombardment, of being separated from family, of seeing friends and relations killed. Trauma stops the dreaming. Not just the kind replaced by nightmares, but the dreaming that pulls life forward. The thinking about what we might create. What might improve. Whom we might love. Trauma destroys what the child was born to be. We are more aware of the reality and…

1 THEY KEEP YOU ACTIVE If you have a dog, chances are you’re walking it at least 30 minutes a day, and likely more – an activity that goes a long way towards keeping you fit. In fact, a 2017 British study published in the journal BMC Public Health found that, on average, walking a dog added an extra 2700 steps to a person’s daily total, about 20 more minutes of physical activity per day than people who don’t own dogs. What’s more, most of that walking was done at a ‘moderate cadence’ – enough to get your heart pumping but still carry on a conversation – the minimum intensity the UK’s National Health Service recommends adults get for 2.5 hours a week. Walking your pooch for that amount of time could…

What happened Around 20 million people in Britain, and millions more around the world, tuned in on Saturday to watch the coronation of King Charles. The service in Westminster Abbey was attended by more than 2,000 people, including about 100 heads of state (see page 18). It culminated with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby placing the 362-year-old St Edward’s Crown on the monarch’s head before proclaiming “God save The King”, as trumpet fanfares sounded around the Abbey. Charles and Queen Consort Camilla travelled back to Buckingham Palace in a large military procession involving troops from across the UK and the Commonwealth. There, they greeted crowds from the balcony and watched a flypast that was scaled back because of the wet weather. The next day, more than 3,700 official street lunch parties…

Sucking up to the gangsters in Beijing Matthew Syed The Sunday Times It was playing against Chinese table-tennis players as a teenager, says Matthew Syed, that I learnt a truth that Western politicians such as Emmanuel Macron have yet to learn. They told me of fellow players who’d been arrested and tortured during the Cultural Revolution for the crime of being successful; of relatives who had perished, beside 45 million others, under Mao’s insane economic plan, the Great Leap Forward. The truth I learnt was this: for 30 years, the biggest threat to the world “has been the criminal mafia known as the Chinese Communist Party”. And still is. Genocide among the Uyghurs; land grabs in the South China Sea; “no limits alliances” with vile regimes such as North Korea and Putin’s Russia:…

Multiple levels of devotion exist within the panda fandom. A regular fan might be satisfied visiting the cuddly creatures in zoos just to enjoy their antics, while a “professional” one delves into pandas’ diet, behavior, personality, family trees and more. China’s current top two panda stars, Meng Lan and He Hua are half-brother and sister. Meng Lan, the 8-year-old elder brother, rose to fame in December 2021, after he successfully broke out of his enclosure—in full view of visitors—at the Beijing Zoo. His lively personality has earned him a reputation as being the social butterfly of the panda celebrity circle. His sister, He Hua, also known as Hua Hua, lives life at the opposite end of the spectrum. The 3-year-old is shy and slow in both moving and eating. She has shorter…

ABOUT A WEEK AFTER THE CATASTROPHIC collapse of his city’s water system, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba gathers his advisers in a second-floor conference room at city hall. Mississippi’s Republican governor, Tate Reeves, had given a press conference the day before to announce that running water had been restored, though the city still remained under a boil-water order for the foreseeable future. Reeves also used the opportunity to offer pointed words about the city’s Democratic administration. Lumumba—who once pledged to make Jackson “the most radical city on the planet”—had allowed the water system to fall apart out of sheer incompetence, Reeves seemed to claim on Sept. 5. “The solutions to this problem are not radical,” Reeves said. “Prioritize basic services—water, sewer, trash. Hire the necessary people. Let them do their…

gingerbread grazing platter serves 8 | prep 45 mins (+ standing & 4 hours chilling) | cooking 30 mins Chocolate-covered ginger Chocolate wafer rolls Small gingerbread men biscuits Ginger shortbread Red and green grapes Ginger kisses Buderim Ginger Bears brandy custard cream 185ml (¾ cup) milk 150ml thickened cream, plus extra 150ml, whipped to firm peaks 3 egg yolks 2 tbs caster sugar 1 tbs cornflour 1 tbs brandy 1 tsp vanilla bean paste ginger pistachio toffee apples 8 small red apples, washed, dried 55g (⅓ cup) pistachio kernels, finely chopped 2 tbs uncrystallised ginger, finely chopped 645g (3 cups) caster sugar ¾ tsp red food colouring 1 To make brandy custard cream, pour the milk and cream into a saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium-low heat. 2 Meanwhile, use a balloon whisk to whisk…

What happened The Bank of England warned last week that Britain is facing its longest recession in a century. The statement came as the Bank raised interest rates by 0.75 points to 3%, its largest hike since 1992. The Bank’s Governor, Andrew Bailey, said that urgent action was necessary to tackle inflation, which stands at a 40-year high of 10.1%, due in part to high energy prices and a tight labour market. “If we do not act forcefully now, it will be worse later on,” he said. Bailey also warned that the downturn, predicted to last two years, would see unemployment rise to 6.4%, equivalent to 500,000 more people being made jobless. Heated debate continued over how the Government should fill the gap of around £60bn in the UK’s public finances. Downing…

French philosopher of social science René Girard (1923-2015) once described the tendency of two parties in a rivalry to become increasingly alike over time. They may start out with different values and ideologies, but as each strives to outdo the other, or as each attack provokes a retaliation in kind from the other side—given each act is mirrored by the other, both parties become locked in a spiral of escalation in which they become more and more alike. Many “games” of strategy take this form. A war between nuclear powers, for example, might escalate through retaliation and anticipatory violence to reduce both sides to the ultimate identity of mutual destruction. Girard called this process mimetic rivalry, or the competition and conflict that arises from imitating the desire of another. The neoconservatives…

1 DOUGHNUTS IN A FLASH PC’s new doughnut pan is definitely in our shopping cart this year, and we bet it’ll be in yours, too! Made with nonstick carbon steel, this pan ensures you’ll get evenly shaped, easy to remove doughnuts every time. And there’s more! The brand has created yummy doughnut mixes you can whip up in a flash! PC Non-Stick Carbon Steel DONUT PAN, $14, DONUT MIXES in Chocolate Cake and Old-Fashioned Cake, $4 each, loblaws.ca. 2 Mirror, mirror Part yoga studio, part boxing ring, part cardio class and so much more, the lululemon Studio Mirror allows you to stream workouts when in use, and admire the fruits of your labour in the mirror when it’s turned off. The fitness brand recently launched a new platform, lululemon Studio, which allows users access…

Elon Musk wants Twitter to bring “power to the people.” One of his first strategies to do this? Charge the people—$7.99 a month for a coveted blue check mark. Musk, who completed his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform in late October, has been critical of Twitter’s verification system, in which high-profile users—journalists, government officials, brands, and other public figures—can apply for “verified” status that confirms their identity, and gives them prestige and prominence on the platform by placing a blue check mark next to their username. This designation, he argued in a tweet, creates a “lords & peasants system.” ‘They should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.’—AUTHOR STEPHEN KING, ON MUSK’S TWITTER SUBSCRIPTION PLAN Musk also needs Twitter to make money, fast. The company is…

我認識的所有大嬸的廚房裡都有一個抽屜專門收藏悉心保存的優格「達巴」（dabba）。所謂「達巴」在印度文裡泛指盒子，但也可以指所有容器。達巴的生命有好多世，完全符合印度人的輪迴觀念；這種從超市買來、我們每天都吃的優格，那750毫升的盒子會被保存下來，一再清洗，重複使用。 重複使用的達巴會被拿來裝剩菜、拜神的祭品，還有就是在自帶菜餚聚餐時拿來盛菜。這些容器從一家轉到另一家，住進他們的抽屜、冰箱，或是進行晨禱的神龕裡（通常就是一個櫥櫃）。有時候，那些盒子甚至會裝滿別家的美味，物歸原主。在眾親友乍看一模一樣的容器中，認出哪一個是自己的達巴，堪稱神奇，屬於高段技術，只有年長的大媽才辦得到。 我生長在一個南印度移民聚集的社區，在這裡，達巴上的廠商標示會透露出各戶人家的一些訊息。例如：濃稠、高脂肪的優格代表有人可能懷孕了，即使尚未公開。因為女子自從孕期開始，就被囑咐什麼都要吃（我是指真正的百無禁忌）。如果標示為低脂─或更糟的零脂優格，可能代表某人的醫生開始叮囑要注意膽固醇了。至於加了糖的調味優格？哼，那種可憎的東西提都不要提。…

gingerbread & salted caramel slice serves 12 | prep 25 mins(+ cooling & 3 hours 20 mins chilling) | cooking 20 mins 170g (½ cup) white choc melts 215g (1 cup) caster sugar 160g butter, chopped 125ml (½ cup) thickened cream Pinch of sea salt flakes 150g dark chocolate, chopped 125g salted pretzel twists gingerbread 60ml (¼ cup) molasses (for stronger flavour) or golden syrup (for sweeter flavour) 55g (¼ cup) brown sugar 25g butter 1 egg 150g (1 cup) plain flour, plus extra, to dust 40g (¼ cup) self-raising flour 1 tsp ground ginger 1 tsp ground cinnamon ¼ tsp ground cloves ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda 1 To make gingerbread, stir molasses or golden syrup, brown sugar and butter in a small saucepan over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Transfer to a large…