Why are bananas so cheap to buy in the UK? In a big supermarket, a single banana costs about 15p, but presumably it has been shipped thousands of miles at some expense. Other individually sold fruit – even the stuff grown in the UK – seems to cost two or three times as much. Magdalena,…
The last and only time Patrick Mahomes lost a Super Bowl, Tom Brady was on the other sideline in Super Bowl 55. Will that game ultimately tip the “greatest of all time” conversation in Brady’s favor? Clearly only time will tell, but the statistical similarities of two of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks is striking. But…
Few trends have been rebranded for the mainstream quite like “boho”. Yet at the Chloé show in Paris, on day three of its fashion week, creative director, Chemena Kamali, doubled down on her efforts to push her easy breezy coolness and cash registers in the most relaxed way possible. She doesn’t mind the word, but…
It takes a while for the eyes to adjust to the darkness inside the shed. Slowly, the shapes of hundreds of pale stalks emerge from the gloom like an alien species, visible only by the glow cast by a handful of candles. This candlelit ritual is the harvest of Yorkshire forced rhubarb, being carried out…
This year’s SEC is proving they should be in the conversation for strongest conference USA TODAY Sports’ Jordan Mendoza explains what makes the SEC so dominant in men’s college basketball. Sports Seriously As the regular season winds down, the top teams in men’s college basketball are fairly well established. The upper tier of the USA…
LeBron James becomes only member of 50K points club LeBron James became the only person to tally 50,000 points in the regular season and playoffs combines, and Jeff Zillgitt discusses the significance. Sports Pulse It feels like, over the past month or so, the balance of power in the NBA has shifted significantly. Perhaps that…