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Butter chicken battle: How the dish brought two Indian restaurants to court

Two Delhi restaurants, Moti Mahal and Daryaganj, have laid claim to the famous curry.

Al Jazeera

Gardener's notebook: the best shrubs with sweet-smelling flowers for your London garden in winter

Winter’s not so barren if you know where to look for uplifting fragrance from flowering shrubs

Evening Standard

“Earplugs Will Be In Demand”: Two Cicada Broods Coincide For The First Time In 221 Years

“Nobody alive today will see it happen again." The post “Earplugs Will Be In Demand”: Two Cicada Broods Coincide For The First Time In 221 Years first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The best footballers of the 70s

Ranking the greatest players of the decade

FourFourTwo

Here's why you should (almost) never use a pie chart for your data

Our lives are becoming increasingly data driven. Our phones monitor our time and internet usage and online surveys discern our opinions and likes. These data harvests are used for telling us how well we’ve slept or what we might like to buy.

The Conversation

Walter Benjamin's Illuminations: the remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Conversation

2 colonists had similar identities – but one felt compelled to remain loyal, the other to rebel

Through the early 1750s, two men in the British colony of Rhode Island – Martin Howard and Stephen Hopkins – had similar backgrounds and led strikingly similar lives. They knew each other, were both supporters of libraries with successful legal careers, and were politically active.

The Conversation

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How the French celebrate Christmas, from holiday markets to Père Fouettard

Although France shares many Christmas traditions with its European neighbours, some customs are quintessentially French – like oysters on ice, the bûche de Noël (Christmas log cake) and a decided emphasis on Champagne. FRANCE 24 takes a look at some of the traditions you might encounter if celebrating the holiday…

France 24

Are the best GPUs really more expensive than they were when I was young, or am I remembering a past that never was?

It's often said that top performing GPUs are pricier now than they've ever been, but is that really the case? I decided to investigate.

PC Gamer

What are the origins of Santa Claus?

We’re all familiar with the jolly, white-haired and bearded overweight man who sneaks down chimneys on Christmas Eve delivering presents to children. But where did this come from?

The Conversation

Who wrote the Bible?

The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and God’s Last Judgement of the living and the dead.

The Conversation

5 Latino Christmas Drinks to Say 'Salud' This Holiday Season

From ponche to coquito to rompope, discover 5 Christmas drinks with Latin flavor

Latin Times

Can you really be allergic to the sun?

A number of medical conditions can cause an allergic reaction to ultraviolet light from the sun.

LiveScience

8 ways to tone down the Christmas lights to help wildlife – and why we should

The Australian government has launched a campaign asking people to “switch off light pollution” to protect wildlife. So, what does the science say? Should we rethink Christmas lights?

The Conversation

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Why do people have wisdom teeth?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

The Conversation

Guide to the classics: the sophisticated aesthetics of Sei Shōnagon’s The Pillow Book

Over a thousand years ago, a gentlewoman received a precious bundle of fine paper from her beloved Empress Teishi. She decided to write down her thoughts and opinions on anything that “moved and fascinated” her during her service at the Empress’s court.

Evening Standard

The 50 best pubs in London, according to the Standard

The unquestionable mark of a truly great pub is its egalitarian spirit. The pubs we love — the pubs that have made this list — all share it. They are places where everyone is treated the same, that can be used whenever and however: they are for after-work pints, for…

The Conversation

Why are we obsessed with renovation? Amanda Lohrey explores the promise and limits of transforming our environment

The cover of The Conversion is an image of two yellow-tailed black cockatoos ascending against a pale sky, their horizontal outstretched wings crossed by the vertical lines that run from their beaks to their tail feathers.

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Nuclear bombs, artificial intelligence and the madness of reason – in The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut examines the troubling dawn of the digital age

A little over 100 years ago, the great German sociologist Max Weber warned that the growth of modern science would result in the “disenchantment” of the world.

The Conversation

The atomic bomb and a near-death experience shadow Richard Flanagan's autobiographical Question 7

The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.

The Conversation

A cosmic ocean of shame: Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend confronts a history beyond the ken of storytelling

It is worth asking whether there are topics beyond the capacity of the novel. Are there subjects so immense in historical scope and in depths of human suffering that a form engineered to tackle but a bare handful of lives in sufficient detail cannot possibly accommodate them?

The Independent UK

UK foragers guide on how to avoid poison mushrooms

There are five main types of mushrooms with deadly toxins growing in the UK

The Conversation

UK newspaper coverage of the 1967 six-day Arab-Israeli war foresaw decades of conflict in Middle East

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, describes his country’s war against Hamas as Israel’s “second war of independence”. The first was fought in 1948, but the war that gave Israel control of Gaza took place 19 years later.

The Conversation

Necromancers, demons and friendly ghosts: humans have been fascinated with the afterlife since ancient Mesopotamia

As Halloween approaches, we start to think about ghosts, monsters, and demons.

The Conversation

Israel-Hamas war: six key moments for the Gaza Strip

Once again, the Gaza Strip is at the epicentre of violence in the Middle East. This tiny 41km-by-13km band of territory on the Mediterranean, sandwiched between the often hostile neighbours of Israel and Egypt, has faced repeated rounds of violence in recent history – but the current war is the…

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