There are just some things you don’t do without preparation. You’re not meant to drive a car without taking lessons and passing a test. You aren’t supposed to scuba dive without certification. You can’t teach—or practice law, or therapy, or cosmetology—without first proving your knowledge. But you can become a parent without any training at all—and that’s a pretty high-stakes position.
Parents today arguably face steeper expectations than ever before. Over the past half century or so, “intensive parenting” has
Bruce the kea is missing his upper beak, giving the olive green parrot a look of perpetual surprise. But scientists are the astonished ones.
The typical kea (Nestor notabilis) sports a long, sharp beak, perfect for digging insects out of rotten logs or ripping roots from the ground in New Zealand’s alpine forests. Bruce has been missing the upper part of his beak since at least 2012, when he was rescued as a fledgling and sent to live
The tunnel yawns from the earth beneath the Al-Azhar University in Gaza City. Once, Hamas terrorists would emerge from here to commit atrocities.
For them it was just one more node in a 300-mile-long tunnel network that sprawls across subterranean Gaza devoted to a single goal: spewing terror into Israel.
Like all Hamas tunnels it is sheathed in layers of concrete bolstered by bags filled with sand.
Wedged beneath its roof, though, is one sack that stands out. Lightly coloured
On a drizzly Friday morning, Sara Sutherland wakes up smug in the knowledge that today she won’t have to drag her children out of bed for the rigmarole of the school run.
Instead, she and seven-year-old twins, Charlotte and Harriett, will be flying to Barcelona for the day.
But unlike other parents who dare pull their children out of school for a family holiday, Sara won’t be receiving a fine from the local authority for non-attendance.
For the scientist, from
Tensions between Israel and the United Nations are heightened after a series of comments about Hamas led to U.N. visas being denied.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Tuesday during a meeting of the Security Council the terrorist attacks against Israel Oct. 7 “did not happen in a vacuum.”
Supporters of Israel took offense to the assertion, and critics claimed the U.N. was blaming the Jewish state for the slaughter of its own civilians by Hamas.
UN LEADER RESPONDS TO ISRAEL
School pupils in Florida will only be taught excerpts of William Shakespeare’s works because of the “sexual content” contained in the plays.
Hillsborough County informed teachers in the state that parts of the Bard’s classics contain sections that cannot be taught under the recently passed Parents Rights in Education Act. The legislation, known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law by its opposition, limits classroom activity that “contains pornography or obscene depictions of sexual conduct”.
Other reasons included revised state
Marko, 80, admitted that qualifying had shown their rivals are closing the gap on them after losing out on pole for only the second time this season, with Hamilton claiming his 104th pole in F1.
“Well, if the car isn’t in the best position, like in Budapest qualifying, we feel that the others are getting closer,” he added.
He also suggested that Verstappen could have gone even faster at the Hungaroring, despite winning the race by over 33 seconds –
In my senior Southern Literature class, I’m about to teach Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner’s great novel about how racism has warped America. I ask my students to think about the stories Faulkner tells: the dispossession of the Chickasaw people, the enslaved woman who drowns herself in despair, and the white family struggling to accept that the admired patriarch who built their Mississippi cotton kingdom also raped his own daughter. Here at Florida State University, in the capital city
Who was the monkiest monk of them all? One candidate is Simeon Stylites, who lived alone atop a pillar near Aleppo for at least thirty-five years. Another is Macarius of Alexandria, who pursued his spiritual disciplines for twenty days straight without sleeping. He was perhaps outdone by Caluppa, who never stopped praying, even when snakes filled his cave, slithering under his feet and falling from the ceiling. And then there’s Pachomius, who not only managed to maintain his focus on
