The Royal Bank of Scotland’s brand new polymer £10 note featuring pioneering Scottish scientist Mary Somerville is to be issued on 4 October. The note will have the secure features put in...
We know you are the son of well-known actors, comedian Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. What was your upbringing in Hollywood? Brooks: My childhood was stable. That’s the most...
The director of ‘Wonderstruck’ has just won the Pardo d’Onore Manor, an honour celebrating his lifetime of cinematic mastery at the Locarno Film Festival. Todd Haynes’s new film Wonderstruck starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams is an ode to...
NatWest research reveals 59 percent of female entrepreneurs in London have been branded with stereotypical gender labels when running their business. Women in the South are more likely than those...
Canadians are blessed with an abundance of natural wonders with enough lakes, mountains and rivers to explore for a lifetime. They’ve also got some of the most jaw-dropping waterfalls on...
In 1998 Charles Moore, an oceanographer, was sailing across the North Pacific when he made an unwelcome discovery. “As I gazed from the deck at the surface of what ought to have...
As a 15-year-old growing up in Washington, D.C., Marcus Bullock knew his mother, the Rev. Sylvia Bullock, was working hard to raise him and his sibling on her own. When Marcus...
Today, the typical American grocery store might devote an entire aisle to breakfast cereal, but that wasn’t always the case. In fact, boxed cereals were an invention of the 20th...
Robert Wright, a visiting professor of science and religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. The author of the books ‘The Evolution of God,’ ‘Three Scientists and their Gods’,...
It is 20 years this month since Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), the greatest pianist of XX century, died, aged 82. “It was in Carnegie Hall and Sviatoslav Richter was playing the piano. The...
