Doom is such a simple, beautifully designed game that it can run on all sorts of weird things, from pregnancy tests to potatoes. Weird things can play it, too. In an effort to eternally one-up itself, the community has now gotten a map of a fruit fly’s brain to play the 1993 first-person shooter. It
I’m a registered dietitian, a career I chose after becoming a mom. I thought for sure when it came time to start packing school lunches, I would be the one all the other moms looked to for inspiration. I’d have all the answers and tips and tricks, and I’d be the one making those picture-perfect
It’s grape season in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, and the harvest this year is plentiful. But that’s small comfort for the region’s grape producers and workers, who say fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan has left them unable to access their primary market. For months, the two countries have traded fire sporadically across their long, mountainous border, leaving hundreds of people dead.
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Acts of kindness are few and far between in the harsh textile factory of Myanmar, where young San Kyi (Nandar Myat Aung) ekes out a meager living, hunched over a sewing machine. When new employee Theint (Nandar Myint Lwin) tells a white lie to cover it up after an unauthorized bathroom break, San Kyi’s face
In “Fruit Gathering,” director and writer Aung Phyoe consciously avoided exploring the “social” impact of the relationship between two repressed women, creating a sense of alienation but also deep intimacy. The film, which premieres at the Karlovy Vary festival as part of the Crystal Globe competition and is co-produced by Myanmar, the Czech Republic and
