Life

Babies exposed to their mother's cigarette smoke in the womb later perform more poorly on reading comprehension tests, according to a new study.

It was among early man's greatest technological feats: a fully engineered weapon that combined a wooden shaft, mixed adhesives and a stone that had been chiselled to a lethal point.

Dear Eric: Can you please confirm if pork is actually considered red meat? I had always understood that it was white, but have since heard that was only due to a specific advertising strategy.

Diversions >D10, D11

After I kick the bucket, I want Tom Hawthorn to write my obituary. He's the master. He brings the dead to life. Hawthorn is to the obit what Harvey Lowe was to the yoyo. Or Babe Ruth to baseball.

MONDAY VIEWING It's the side story of the dirty thirties, one told in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and retold tonight in documentarian Ken Burns's stirring account of the dust bowl.

Driving into Courtenay in the late 1990s, I would see a sign on the highway saying "Ginger Goodwin Way." Goodwin, I knew, had been a labour leader in the early 20th century and a strong socialist. During the First World War, he had preached pacifism.

Renewed conflict sparked by Arab Spring, deep hatred - and the Israeli election

Recently, I read about a group of Italian scientists who have been incarcerated for misreading signs of a massive earthquake.

The Spencer Mansion: A House, a Home, and an Art Gallery By Robert Ratcliffe Taylor Touchwood, 204 pp., $19.95 For starters, let's be clear about what Spencer Mansion really is.