Shadow and Bone
Shadow and Bone is Netflix’s new fantasy series, developed by accomplished screen writer Eric Heisserer and based on a series of bestselling young adult books by Leigh Bardugo.
It’s a coming-of-age empowerment story about a young heroine, a cartographer named Alina Starkov, who’s discovered to possess unique powers that could destroy The Fold – a mysterious wall of darkness that has devastated and divided a warring, industrialising world.
The political turmoil of this culturally complex world has been fundamentally influenced by Grisha – elite military mages, but with the advent of projectile weapons technology, magic is perceived as slowly becoming obsolete.
Addiction and specialist wellness counsellor Freddie van Rensburg offers practical tips and advice on how to regain control of your life in his latest book, Life Anon: A 12-step guide to life for non-addicts.
People love the idea of superheroes. Since the first superhero comics were published in the late ’30s, we’ve concocted innumerable superhero characters with every manner of ability, and yet, whether they’re an alien hunk in spandex, a brooding billionaire in black, or a hammer-slinging Greek god, they’ve mostly been a similar kind of person. Male, white, young, sexy.
The first superheroines to arrive on the scene in the early 40s, like Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, relied on sex appeal to sell comics. Even when Wonder Woman became a global success, she was synonymous with a bondage fetish because she would manage to get herself kinkily tied-up in just about every fight. Superheroines started getting funkier and less sexist during the ’60s and ’70s in The Silver Age of Comics, which coincided with second-wave feminism, but even today, women represent a significant minority of superheroes.
In the opening chapter of our Sugar Saga series, we took a look at the role a US sugar industry body – then known as the Sugar Research Foundation, played in the mid- to late 20th century in the promotion of sugar, by funding studies and advertising campaigns that would cast sugar in a favourable light.
Their actions would go on to influence public policy in their favour, encourage manufacturers to put more sugar in their products, and as stated by their president, Dr Henry Bohn Hass, a specialist in organic chemistry, in 1954, make sure that “people who never had a course in biochemistry are going to learn that sugar is what keeps every human being alive and with energy to face our daily problems”.
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