Yoghurt, kimchi, kombucha: Fermented foods may not work for everyone

Probiotics in fermented foods can cause side effects in some people.

Manal Mohammed, The Conversation

· 2 hours ago

‘Does not tyranny spring from democracy?’ How Plato’s 380 BC philosophy is truer than ever today

As in Athens, anti-elite demagogues in modern democracies are increasingly rising to power riding populist waves fueled not by logic but fear and nationalism.

Lenin Cavalcanti Guerra, The Conversation

· Yesterday · 11:30 pm

‘Yugo the Negotiator’: How an obscure Japanese anime worked hard to represent Pakistan

Originally written in 1994, Yugo doesn’t depict Pakistan as an exotic and dangerous land full of tyrannical terrorists, but a real country, home to real people.

Hamza Sarfraz, Dawn.com

· Nov 13, 2019 · 09:30 pm

A peek into the European tastes of an Indian Maharaja, patron of French art and design in the 1930s

British-educated, Maharaja Yeshwant Rao II Holkar were curators of carpets, cutlery, leopard-skin chairs and patrons of jazz.

Rosslyn Hyams, RFI

· Nov 12, 2019 · 09:30 pm

One, two, cha-cha-cha. Three, four, eternal love? How British dance masters shaped the modern world

A new British reality TV show sets couples up to dance together, without a word exchanged. That sounds a lot like 17th and 18th-century formal dances.

Rachael Durkin and Katherine Butler, The Conversation

· Nov 11, 2019 · 11:30 pm

As big breweries muscle in on the market, craft beer is having an identity crisis in Britain

The solution lies in the answer to a simple question: What is craft beer?

Maria Karampela, Juho Pesonen and Nadine Waehning, The Conversation

· Nov 10, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Urban living makes us miserable. This city is trying to change that

A study on why Glaswegians have a 30% higher risk of dying early led to surprising realisations about the importance of open spaces.

Fleur Macdonald, Mosaic.com

· Nov 09, 2019 · 11:30 pm

How techno music reunited Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall

After years of censorship, young people from both sides needed a new kind of nonconformist music. Techno rave parties filled that silence.

Beate Peter, The Conversation

· Nov 09, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Ashish Shakya on stand-up comedy: ‘You need to have passion and the ability to keep it alive’

Ashish Shakya is one of the five mentors who will coach celebrities to perform in the Amazon Prime series ‘One Mic Stand’.

Devarsi Ghosh

· Nov 09, 2019 · 08:00 am

Never mind the critics, Kanye West’s ‘Jesus is King’ will shape African American gospel for years

Emotional, honest and raw, the hip hop artist’s new album honours god as the great forgiver and transformer of lives.

Andrew Legg, The Conversation

· Nov 07, 2019 · 09:30 pm

What 3,000-year-old Egyptian wheat tells us about the genetics of our daily bread

DNA collected from ancient emmer wheat helps explain wheat’s complex history of hybridisation.

Michael Scott, The Conversation

· Nov 06, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Victorian scientists came up with an explanation for ghosts, but the public was never convinced

Sometimes the unknown is more appealing than the truth – and it has kept ghost hunters in business for generations.

Karl Bell, The Conversation

· Nov 05, 2019 · 11:30 pm