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This is why the iPhone 13 still has a notch
Why on Earth does Apple’s iPhone 13 still have an intrusive black slab cut out of its screen? Many others manage just fine withoutContinue Reading
Wool and warm feelings at Kelly House
Craft a woolly flag to celebrate 10 year of the Woolly weekend for the a chance to win £50 to spend on woolly products at the Woolly Weekend. Ten years ago the first Woolly Weekend was held, bringing stallholders into the old house at Kelly to share their love ofContinue Reading
Education in Afghanistan was a battlefield long before the Taliban returned
In the two decades that followed the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, significant progress was made in education in Afghanistan. By 2017, the number of schools had more than quintupled. School enrolment, from grades one to twelve, had reached 9.2 million pupils, 39% of whom were girls. ThisContinue Reading
Pele, 80, thanks fans as icon leaves intensive care after colon tumour surgery
FOOTBALL legend Pele has thanked fans for their get-well messages after leaving intensive care following a colon tumour op. The three-time Brazil World Cup winner also cracked a new joke about being ready to play football again in his first social media post since his hospital move. 1 The three-timeContinue Reading
Four factors that increase the risk of vaccinated people getting COVID
Kazantseva Olga/Shutterstock Two weeks after your second COVID-19 vaccine dose, the protective effects of vaccination will be at their highest. At this point, you’re fully vaccinated. If you still get COVID-19 after this point, you’ve suffered a “breakthrough” infection. Broadly speaking, breakthrough infections are similar to regular COVID-19 infections inContinue Reading
We discovered the earliest prehistoric art is hand prints made by children
One of the hand prints discovered in Tibet that is believed to have been made by children. Matthew Bennett, Author provided Fossilised footprints, and more rarely, hand prints, can be found around the world; left as people went about their daily business, preserved by freak acts of geological preservation. InContinue Reading
How will the COVID pandemic end?
After over 18 months of this pandemic, with the social distancing, mask wearing and on-off lockdowns, what we all want to know more than anything else is when it will all be over and how it will end. While nothing is certain, we have a lot of evidence on whichContinue Reading
Haiti: what aid workers can learn from the previous earthquake as they struggle to rebuild the country
Only a few weeks after the Haiti earthquake, aid agencies on the ground are only starting to deal with the challenges. In doing so they need to apply the lessons they should have learned from the response to the previous catastrophic earthquake in January 2010. At the end of AugustContinue Reading
Rap artist Nicki Minaj faces backlash after tweeting inaccurate information about Covid vaccines
Nicki Minaj is seen arriving to the 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2019 in New York City. Gilbert Carrasquillo | GC Images | Getty Images Nicki Minaj faced public backlash Tuesday after tweeting the day before that aContinue Reading
Earthquake expert who advised the Haiti government in 2010: ‘Why were clear early warning signs missed?’
Luigi Di Sarno was part of a team of specialist advisers brought in to help the government of Haiti prepare for future earthquakes after 200,000 people were killed in 2010. Over a decade later, very few of their recommendations had been adopted. It was about 8.30am, local time, on AugustContinue Reading