The evolution of the cosmos after the Big Bang NASA READER QUESTION: My understanding is that nothing comes from nothing. For something to exist, there must be material or a component available, and for them to be available, there must be something else available. Now my question: Where did theContinue Reading
But more recently what has made these artists bedfellows is their financial dealings: all have sold the rights to their back catalogues for hundreds of millions. Bruce Springsteen recently sold the rights to his music to Sony for $500 million, the Red Hot Chili Peppers sold their music for aContinue Reading
On New Years Eve Exmouth RNLI volunteers were tasked to a report of persons stranded by the tide at Orcombe Point, Exmouth. At 2.33pm today Friday 31 December 2021, the volunteer crew of Exmouth RNLI inshore lifeboat D-805 George Bearman II and all weather lifeboat 13-03 R & J WelburnContinue Reading
JOAN LAPORTA reckons Barcelona are ready to go to battle with Europe’s biggest teams for the signature of Erling Haaland. The Nou Camp president claims his club will be a transfer force to be reckoned with as his side looks to rival Chelsea and Liverpool for the striker’s services. BarcelonaContinue Reading
Judicial Law, 3/1, gave me immense satisfaction when beating odds-on Gamaret at Catterick on New Years’ Day and realistically that’s what this column is all about, chancing against ‘shorties’ with a view to profiting with little risk attached. On the time-handicap Judicial Lady was the only possible serious rival toContinue Reading
When 17-year-old Margaret Whigham made her society debut in 1930, resplendent in turquoise in a sea of young women dressed in traditional white, she was an instant sensation. Named London’s “debutante of the year” (one report said she was “a thoroughbred in a field of hacks”) she would be laudedContinue Reading
zstock/Shutterstock If the pandemic had happened ten years ago, what would it have looked like? Doubtless there would have been many differences, but probably the most striking would have been the relative lack of genomic sequencing. This is where the entire genetic code – or “genome” – of the coronavirusContinue Reading
Clovis spearheads. wikimedia, CC BY-SA For the first few million years of human evolution, technologies changed slowly. Some three million years ago, our ancestors were making chipped stone flakes and crude choppers. Two million years ago, hand-axes. A million years ago, primitive humans sometimes used fire, but with difficulty. Then,Continue Reading
RIOT police armed with batons and shields clashed with thousands of anti-lockdown protesters in the Dutch capital today. Crowds gathered in Amsterdam‘s Museum Square to object against Covid-19 measures and vaccinations – despite a country-wide ban on group meet-ups. Getty Images – Getty A police dog attacks a demonstrator protestingContinue Reading
Schools, colleges and creches will reopen later this month despite record numbers of Covid-19 cases in Ireland, Eamon Ryan has said. The Green Party leader said on Sunday that be expected schools to reopen as planned in the coming days, even as the Omicron variant continues to spread across theContinue Reading
