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Opinion: the smartphone is a sleek glass-fronted parasite
Your smartphone is the most successful parasite of the modern age according to evolution, and we are all paying the price
June 7, 2025
Government-funded parasols to cure Malta’s many ills
The 21st century equivalent of an għonnella could be the answer to Malta’s traffic congestion
April 12, 2025
‘Are we really free, and do we really want to be?’
Imagine the potential savagery on Love Island without the steadying influence of the camera
March 31, 2025
On using Google Translate to speak ‘Dolphin’ to aliens
On the recent meeting of dolphins and astronauts off the Florida coast and what it can teach us
March 29, 2025
Who does Spiderman vote for?
Stuart J Turnbull-Dugarte looks at how people project their political views onto fictional heroes and villains
March 24, 2025
‘I am not an evil stepmother’
On Disney and its disservice to the modern blended family. Stepmothers of the world unite!
March 22, 2025
Facebook, friends and the power of positivity
What's the measure of a man or woman in the 21st century?
March 15, 2025
Would ‘Great Expectations’ be better as a videogame?
Why Charles Dickens would have made 'Great Expectations' a videogame if he were writing today, by Lynda Clark, Lecturer in Creative Writing, Edinburgh
March 13, 2025
The Gulf of Mexico or America? How about Gulf of Malta?
In the light of Donald Trump’s unilateral renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, shall we claim part of the Med?
March 9, 2025
Girl power goes interstellar – or does it?
As the first all-female space mission launches this spring, should women be excited or disappointed?
March 8, 2025