Food and cooking
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Why Relationships Fail: It's Rarely the Reason You Think
The complaint that ends a relationship is almost never the reason it ended — here's how to find the one underneath it.
Why Christopher Nolan turned Circe into a vindictive witch
Some critics have bemoaned the flattening of a complex character. But Nolan’s film echoes a literary tradition of reimagining Circe as a survivor, a truth-teller and a figure of female empowerment.
What a western Pennsylvania ’90s-style Pizza Hut reveals about nostalgia
A Carnegie Mellon University marketing researcher explains why the love of a retro Pizza Hut has more to do with the relationships attached to it than pizza.
Oil shortages escalate from wars in Iran and Ukraine, with few signs of relief
Cooking gas and diesel fuel are among the oil products whose supply levels have been affected already. Here’s why to expect long-term shortages.
Hormuz: why it is not just the oil price that matters, but physical flow, insurance and margins
With Hormuz, do not watch the oil price alone but the combination of physical flow, insurance, shipping and refining margins — that is where you find out whether this is short-lived geopolitical noise or a more expensive energy regime
Memory chips: weaker guidance need not mean the end of AI. Why prices, inventories and the mix decide
Do not read weaker guidance in memory chips as the automatic end of the AI boom; separate HBM from ordinary DRAM and NAND, and watch price per bit, ASPs, bit shipments, fab utilisation and customer inventories.