Thursday, October 28, 2021 | | |  | | | LIFE | From TikTok to the parking lot, why 2021 was the year of the roller skating renaissance | | Folks across the country are lacing up — here's where they're going. | | | | | | | | |  | | | ARTS | 'The truth about the race card': Vivek Shraya asks the hard questions through poetry | Poets unflinchingly face the world in its complexity in Poetry on the Mainstage for the Frankfurt Book Fair. | | | | | | | | |  | | | GEM | War of the Worlds | | A modern re-imagining of the timeless classic by H.G. Wells, reveals a catastrophic attack on Earth by intelligent extraterrestrial life and the struggle of the world's human survivors. | | | | | | | | |  | | | QUIRKS & QUARKS | Scientists have found a way to harden wood to make a knife that rivals steel | | The process uses chemistry and pressure to make wood 23 times harder. | | | | | | | | | |
