Opinion

Food tastes best when shared

Let’s consider this food math — it takes hours to cook up a meal and only minutes to polish it all off. As for the theory of satiety — when the hunger bells first chime and then ring, you are sure that you have the stomach to guzzle up a several-course meal, but once you have had y...

Opinion

Mask it up for a safer world

As public places and services gradually reopen and resume activities, we have to get used to some challenges while we precariously try avoiding passing within six feet of each other in our mask-wearing world — being trapped under our own breathe, distinguishing a smile from a frown with just t...

Opinion

Our lives have become notifications

Pranitha MenonMy friend was worried about her teenage son whose ears were perpetually jammed into noise-cancelling headphones, his face aglow from the screen before him.She worried that along with the damage that it was doing to his hearing and sight, his body might misunderstand this permanent fixt...