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The clitoris – a brief history
Christina Paliy/Shutterstock “What’s the difference between a bar and clitoris? Most men have no trouble finding a bar.” In the world of humour, the clitoris remains a mystery: supposedly small, and so inevitably difficult to locate. “Which dinosaur will never be discovered? The Clitaurus.” It sometimes seems medical science hasContinue Reading
Your style of social media use may be connected to your wellbeing
Pixabay Are you a doom scroller or a frequent Tweeter? Do you pass the time by flicking endlessly through others’ posts on social networking sites, or perhaps you use these platforms to share your own content? Psychologists believe our style of social media usage has important effects on our psychologicalContinue Reading
‘I felt like my body was gaslighting me’, says Billie Eilish
B illie Eilish has said she felt like her body was “gaslighting” her, while reflecting on struggling with injuries she sustained as a teenager and her subsequent view of herself. The 21-year-old pop sensation sustained a hip injury at the age of 13. Speaking to Vogue magazine about how herContinue Reading
Card-crazy World Cup ref Lahoz sends Sevilla boss off after 18 minutes
SEVILLA manager Jorge Sampaoli was the latest victim of card-crazy World Cup referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz. Spaniard Lahoz, 45, was sent home from Qatar after showing 15 yellows and a red card in the heated quarter-final between Holland and eventual champions Argentina. 2 Sampaoli was sent off by Lahoz inside 18 minutes of Sevilla’s CopaContinue Reading
Exchequer records €5.2bn surplus for 2022 as tax revenue tops €83bn
Updated: 5.25pm The State recorded a budget surplus of approximately €5.2 billion in 2022, far in excess of the €1 billion projected just over three months ago, the Department of Finance confirmed on Wednesday. The turnaround from a deficit of 3 per cent of gross national income in 2021 reflectedContinue Reading
Italy’s pasta row: a scientist on how to cook spaghetti properly and save money
shutterstock Nitr via Shutterstock Italians are notoriously – and understandably – protective of their cuisine, as regular arguments about the correct toppings for pizza or the appropriate pasta to use with a Bolognese ragu will attest. So it was hardly surprising that, when a Nobel Prize-winning Italian physicist weighed inContinue Reading
The British monarchy has always controlled how much we see of it, but Charles III could change that
The late author Hilary Mantel once wrote of Queen Elizabeth II that she was “a thing that existed to be looked at”. This became even truer in death. From the moment the sovereign left Balmoral Castle in the back of the glassy hearse on September 8 2022, we could, ifContinue Reading
Arsenal flop Nuno Tavares sparks huge brawl after kicking out at rival before trolling Montpellier fans in Marseille win
ARSENAL flop Nuno Tavares sparked a huge brawl after kicking a rival in Ligue 1 last night. That’s before trolling opposition fans in wild scenes during Marseille’s 2-1 win at Montpellier. 1 Nuno Tavares was sent off after started a brawl against MontpellierCredit: EPA Tavares, 22, swapped Arsenal for MarseilleContinue Reading
The biggest films to look out for in 2023 from Margot Robbie’s Barbie to Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka
Tar TÁR Trailer Cate Blanchett is on typically splendiferous form as an out and proud lesbian conductor, whose past comes back to haunt her. Writer-director Todd Field has created an anti-heroine for the ages, an elegant predator alive only to music, her own feelings and, fitfully, the needs of theContinue Reading
Supporting a child with long COVID – tips from parents of children living with the condition
NadyaEugene/Shutterstock Long COVID is the patient-preferred term used to describe symptoms lasting more than four weeks after a COVID-19 infection. Children and young people can also suffer from long COVID following even a mild infection with the virus. The latest figures from the UK’s Office for National Statistics show anContinue Reading