Codeword: January 17, 2025

Donald Trump is making Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone ‘Hollywood ambassadors’, and the reviews aren’t great

Donald Trump‘s cabinet nominees have largely been notable for one thing – their complete unsuitabil…

The sweet smell of excess: how fatbergs make perfume

Have you ever walked past a sewage plant and thought the stench hanging in the air would be just p…

Sudoku hard: January 16, 2025

The challenge facing Syria's Alawites

As sectarian tensions rise in Syria following the collapse of the Assad regime, a minority sect fe…

Codeword: January 15, 2025

Unprepared for a pandemic

As the nation remembers — or chooses to forget — the events of Jan. 6, 2021, we might also spare a…