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‘Ten years has conventionally been considered the minimum age for enjoying a halfway serious red bordeaux’
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‘Crudités inspire fear and loathing in the sybaritic but bagna càuda combines virtue and wickedness in equal measure’
Bryan Cranston is breaking good
After five dazzling seasons as Walter White in ‘Breaking Bad’, the 58-year-old actor is embracing new challenges as ‘good for the soul’
The seeds of life
The very essence of life on earth – human, biological and electronic – is being preserved for posterity by scientists in closely guarded data centres, vaults and sperm banks
Siri Hustvedt: The power of rage
The writer says that her new novel, about a female artist spurned by critics, may be the ‘freest book I have ever written’
Science: fir weather friends?
The haze emitted by pine forests - composed of aerosol particles - may have a cooling effect on climate
Should we mind our language?
‘We create prisons for ourselves by talking in certain ways. Shifting the way we use words can be enough to let us out’
‘I use the Great American Songbook to help children read’
Singer-composer Anne Phillips is the founder of The Kindred Spirits Children’s Jazz Choirs
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