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It is often said that the truth is more fascinating than any fictional story. That the workings of the Earth and its history are richer and more unpredictable than anything that the human imagination could have conjured up. ‘The Sixth Extinction’ by Elizabeth Kolbert is a thrilling story about life on Earth, told through the eyes of human beings. Kolbert uses her charming voice to capture the ev..

When we look up into the sky, we rarely analyse the types of clouds that we can see. However, there is a fascinating world of ‘cloud classification’, in which different clouds (defined as ‘water suspended in earth’s atmosphere’) are characterised according to their shape, height and location. There are over a hundred different types of clouds, but the list compiled below has reduced the multiple..

My illuminations on Julia Baird’s ‘Phosphorescence’ I doubt Julia Baird could have ever foreseen the unprecedented circumstances that the world would find itself in during the year of 2020, as thousands of readers picked up her book to pass the time during the pandemic. Locked up at home, our hearts stuffy with a yearning not just for joy and freedom but normalcy, her novel must surely have felt..

I was disappointed at the number of couples that I was surrounded by. Everyone around me seemed to be walking arm in arm with someone, leaning affectionately into each other’s shoulders, their steps in synchronised rhythm with their partner. I sat alone on the plush velvet seat before the artworks, but instead of taking in their beauty and the way they seemed to reflect back the golden glow of t..

Grete gently rubbed her stomach under the dining table. The bump was barely there, but she could the feel small movements inside as if a small seedling had sprouted and was brushing up against her, searching for sun. Her eyes were fixed on the blaring television across the living room, but all she could think of was the overwhelming feeling of nausea which had now become a daily occurrence at th..

Picture a young girl who has just stepped onto the ice rink for the first time. She is tentatively holding onto the railings as she shuffles her way around the perimeters of the rink. She dreams of becoming a professional skater one day, like the ones she has seen on television, whose skates barely seem to scratch the surface of the ice and whose spins seem to defy the laws of gravity. The girl ..

전 세계 유명 언론 연예 기사란이 BTS와 중국 이야기로 채워지고 있습니다. 세계적인 정론지 BBC, 가디언, 워싱턴포스트는 물론 유에스에이 투데이, 블룸버그까지 BTS와 중국의 스토리를 크게 다루고 있습니다. 먼저 팩트부터 짚어 보도록 하겠습니다. 지난 10월 7일 BTS는 625전쟁 70주년을 맞아 미국과 한국 간의 관계 증진에 기여한 공로로 코리아 소사이어티에서 수여하는 제임스 반 플릿상(James A. Van Fleet Award)을 수상했습니다. 화상으로 진행된 기념식에서 BTS의 리더인 RM(김남준: RM은 Rap Monster에서 따온 말입니다)이 소감을 밝혔습니다. 수상소감의 핵심은 아래와 같습니다. "We will always remember the history of pain that ..

셀레스트 에피퍼니 웨이트(Celeste Epiphany Waite)는 보통 셀레스트로 잘 알려진 소울 가수(Soul singer)입니다. 셀레스트는 1994년 5월 5일 미국 로스엔절레스(Los Angeles)에서 태어났지만 그녀가 아주 어렸을 때 부모가 이혼한 뒤 영국 출신이었던 어머니를 따라 영국으로 이사한 후 그곳에서 자랐습니다. 셀레스트는 어머니를 따라 영국으로 이사를 했지만 아버지와 꾸준히 연락을 주고받았습니다. 자메이카 출신으로 미국에서 살았던 그녀의 아버지는 그녀의 회상에 의하면 카리스마 있고 독특한 캐릭터였습니다. 셀레스트가 특히 좋아했던 그녀의 아버지는 그녀가 16세가 되던 해에 폐암으로 세상을 떠났습니다. 아버지의 죽음으로 셀레스트는 인생의 전환점을 맞이하게 됩니다. 당시 패션을 공부하..