Glentaneous, easy five three and three-quarter lengths winner of an ‘aged’ handicap over ten furlongs ‘good to soft’ Nottingham, Wednesday, must represent one of best and most assured naps from this column which originated back in 1974 when I created record £72 points and scored unchallenged in the now-defunct SportingContinue Reading

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COVID and flu: how big could the dual threat be this winter?

Subbotina Anna/Shutterstock Although COVID infections are currently low or in decline in most western countries aside from the UK, there’s still a long way to go before the threat of the pandemic is over. A big concern this winter is if there’s a resurgence of COVID with other respiratory illnessesContinue Reading

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Another Round? What really happens when you microdose alcohol

Extreme measures. JaCrispy In Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film, Another Round, friends Martin, Tommy, Peter and Nikolaj agree to conduct a little experiment: they will stay moderately drunk throughout the day to see how it affects their social and professional performance. The four middle-aged men are dissatisfied with theirContinue Reading

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Explaining the 2021 Nobel prizes: how touch works, a better way to make medicine and the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah – podcast

Our sense of touch is actually lots of different senses rolled into one. Yevhen Prozhyrko/Shutterstock Six prize announcements later, 12 men and one woman from 11 countries are now settling down to their new lives as Nobel laureates. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we delve into the scientificContinue Reading

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There are still more than six months to go before the next Philippines election in May 2022, but the horse-trading and behind-the-scenes machinations are hotting up. Incumbent president, the right-wing strongman Rodrigo Duterte, is banned by the constitution from standing for the presidency again next year – he did considerContinue Reading

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