Never tell all you know
Her typewriter, plenty of black coffee, her mind filled with murder. Ah, such bliss! As the Crime Writer started typing, words spilled onto the page like drops of blood from a fresh wound. There they were, the usual suspects: the vamps and vicars, the perverts and poisoners. A murder, a method, a motive. All of a sudden, a vision flashed, then vanished. But when she opened her eyes, it was there on paper: “The mystery of the missing crime writer.” Enraptured, she continued to write…
Agatha Christie may be the most famous and best-selling author of all time; she was also a woman of mystery: a recluse who barely gave any interviews. “Never tell all you know; not even to the person you know best,” she once said. It’s exactly this mysterious quality that made her such a great crime writer (that, and her brilliant insights into the darkness of human nature, of course). Agatha did, however, create a fabulous spokeswoman: her detective story-writing alter ego Ariadne Oliver. Both have steely resolve, zero patience for male arrogance and incompetence (“If only a woman were the head of Scotland Yard,” Ariadne sighs at one point). In a plot twist worthy of her own novels, Agatha the crime writer became a real-life mystery herself when she disappeared for 11 days in 1926. Till the day she died, Agatha kept mum about the reason why. Sometimes truth is more mysterious than fiction…
“Men are so slow. I’ll soon tell you who did it.” – crime writer Ariadne Oliver in ‘Mrs. McGinty’s Dead’.
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Building bridges
From the Erasmus Bridge and the Mercedes-Benz Museum to Qatar’s metro network; Ben van Berkel’s iconic landmarks bring people together in rapturous beauty, again and again. I talked with the Dutch architect and educator about sensuality, ‘healthy’ buildings and the remarkable parallels between our designs.
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More than a feeling
Don’t ignore your emotions; they are much more powerful than you can imagine. By linking the magical world of emotions with hard science, Dutch scientist Pierre Capel, professor emeritus in experimental immunology, shows us the consequences of our feelings and the power of our minds. The message: we can do much more than we think. “Meditate. It’s the single best thing you can do for your health.”
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Keto curious?
The fact that I feel bikini-confident all year round is, of course, a nice bonus. But for me, the biggest payoff of following the keto diet is the way it optimizes my health and gives me tons of energy.
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Super (skin) food
‘If you can’t eat it, why put it on your skin?’. I pretty much live by this beauty adage. After all, with your skin being one of your body’s largest organs, anything – and I mean anything! – you put onto your skin will end up in your bloodstream.
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