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By late 1941, the Imperial Japanese Army had been massing on the border of the New Territories. On the 8th of December 1941, the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbour, just hours apart, 30,000 Japanese troops crossed into Hong Kong.

A long layover in Doha, a thirteen-year-old who’d never met a banana split, and the strange civic reverence the Gulf reserves for a French handbag.

You probably have that one friend. The one who interrupts to “explain” what you really meant. The one who blames their boss every time something goes wrong.

Maté is a Canadian physician, Order of Canada recipient, and author of five books published in close to forty languages. He has spent the better part of three decades arguing that Western medicine built its understanding of illness on a foundation with a significant crack running through it.

Welcome to dichotomous thinking — the cheerful little tyrant living rent-free in your head, sorting the world into Good and Bad, Success and Failure, Friend and Foe, with the brisk certainty of a customs officer at three in the morning.

My daughter had been planning this day for the better part of a year. The pony bug had arrived in our household the way pony bugs tend to — quietly, then all at once — but this one came with a uniquely, gloriously specific fixation: she wanted to ride an Icelandic horse. Not just any horse. An “Icelandic” horse.

The sign at the entrance to the Roman Baths in Bath asks visitors to refrain from touching the water. This is a reasonable request, given that it is technically a UNESCO World Heritage site and a sacred spring that has been flowing continuously for approximately ten thousand years.