TV's Best Sci-fi Right Now
There is little in The Expanse's cold open of a lone woman in a spaceship having a nightmarish encounter that indicates it is the start of something remarkable.
12 April 2017, 18:00 PM
How to breathe in Dhaka
You had best learn to take care of yourself and your loved ones
29 March 2017, 18:00 PM
THE TEETH OF MAN
Ten thousand were the teeth in Mashgaru's smiling mouth, with still more hidden until needed.
29 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Drowning Lands
Though Dzong had never seen the sea before, his baby sister loved it.
15 March 2017, 18:00 PM
How to BE a Pagri
In an age of globalisation we are at risk of having our own home-grown culture swamped by foreign imports.
15 March 2017, 18:00 PM
How to Handle Information in 2017
The world is a complex web of events that may be geographically distant but have real and immediate consequences.
8 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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It is used to describe a state of sadness that appears long-term and unshakeable.
8 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Chalice Hymnal
It is a sunless afternoon and a woman sits alone on her porch under the wind chimes. Bells and horns sound from the top of a great stone temple welcoming the evening tide. An unshaven man prowls the nameless alleys in the dead hours of the night, searching for you.
1 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Global warming sets the stage for war
The first time I encountered the concept of a war for the environment was in the Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series of strategy games.
26 February 2017, 18:00 PM
The Hair Loss Experience
I suffered from severe dandruff problems as a teenager (ladies). I combatted this with a ferocious grooming program that saw me going at my hair with a comb whenever my hands were free.
15 February 2017, 18:00 PM
ROME AND ITS MANY SEQUELS
The experiences of puberty strongly shape the adults we become. Let us talk about something that happened during the world's adolescence.
8 February 2017, 18:00 PM
The Past is a Prison
Approaching his seventeenth birthday the boy known as Rubaiyat Karim committed an act that made him infamous. July 19, 2009. On that day the man known as Rubaiyat Karim was conceived.
1 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Nothing Matters in Sherlock
The Sherlock Holmes stories are simple enough in subject matter: a detective, his friend, and the cases they solve and an arch-nemesis hovering in the background.
25 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Unconventional Desires
The pentagram flashed an impossible colour thirteen times just as the scented candles at the edges of the star were snuffed out. The wizard sweated nervously. The vial of blood at the centre exploded with a strange purple light.
18 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Age of Empires 2: Evergreen, not Forgotten
The fourth expansion pack for Age of Empires 2, Rise of the Rajas, was released on December 19, 2016 as downloadable content.
4 January 2017, 18:00 PM
2016 was THE worst. Now what?
The end of the world is a pretty commonplace incident.
28 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Commandos and Desperados in Feudal Japan
In Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Mimimi Productions has married the gameplay of Commandos with intrigues and conflicts of Edo Japan.
21 December 2016, 18:00 PM
It's Time to Make Peace with Spiders
First of all, let's just all have the bravery to be honest about this: spiders are super-scary and would probably have never existed in an ideal universe.
21 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Racists do stupid things that ruin the world
Racism is far from dead, but we have come a long way. Plenty still living remember when racial discrimination wasn't an illicit practice but explicit state policy...
22 June 2016, 18:00 PM
The Challenge of Realistic Melee Combat in Games
The games industry is becoming increasingly diverse and the niches the so-called AAA developers ignore are being filled by outsiders
8 June 2016, 18:00 PM