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The magic of touch: how deafblind people taught us to ‘see’ the world differently during COVID
Toeizuza Thailand/Shutterstock As someone who is severely deaf and completely blind, I felt overnight I had lost a third sense, my sense of touch. To make matters worse, people around me faded away – voices had become so quiet that there was an eerie soundlessness all around. Nothing was makingContinue Reading
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s $1bn art collection comes to London ahead of likely record-breaking auction
I t is set to become the world’s most expensive art collection ever sold, containing an estimated $1 billion worth of masterpieces by the likes of Paul Cezanne, Édouard Manet and David Hockney, collected over decades by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. On Friday, Londoners were given the chance to see highlightsContinue Reading
Get Baaeed at 30/1 to win Champion Stakes at Ascot with BetVictor
THE Champions Stakes takes place at Ascot on Saturday. And BetVictor are offering new customers odds of 30/1 that unbeaten superstar Baaeed will win his 11th successive race in his final outing on British Champions Day — that’s boosted from 2/9! 1 Get Baaeed to win the Champions Stakes atContinue Reading
BBC at 100: the future for global news and challenges facing the World Service
globalnewsshutterstock The BBC celebrates its 100th birthday on October 18 2022. It comes as the institution faces increasing competition for audiences from global entertainment providers, anxieties about the sustainability of its funding and a highly competitive global news market. Its international broadcasting operation, the BBC World Service, is only aContinue Reading
Late night eating may cause greater weight gain – new research points to why
This isn't the first study to show a link between late night eating and weight gain. MMD Made my dreams/ Shutterstock It’s long been popular advice for people looking to lose weight to avoid late night snacking. It’s no wonder, with a host of research showing that late night eatingContinue Reading
Base jumping: what we can learn from some of the world’s most extreme athletes about overcoming doubt
David Gallagher, Author provided You can be on that exit point for five minutes, battling all these voices in the head, and all of a sudden, a calmness comes over you, and you realise … it’s good, let’s do it. We used to call that “the moment”. Andy Guest, UKContinue Reading
Get Baaeed at 30/1 to win Champion Stakes at Ascot with BetVictor
THE Champions Stakes takes place at Ascot on Saturday. And BetVictor are offering new customers odds of 30/1 that unbeaten superstar Baaeed will win his 11th successive race in his final outing on British Champions Day — that’s boosted from 2/9! 1 Get Baaeed to win the Champions Stakes atContinue Reading
Covid cases jump 30% in a week to 1.7million – as map reveals 10 worst Omicron hotspots
COVID cases have jumped by 30 per cent in the last week, with 1.7million Brits now having the bug, data has revealed. Brits have been warned to protect their grandparents as we head into the winter months and as the virus becomes more widespread. And fresh figures from the OfficeContinue Reading
A Reboot of the Maxwell’s Demon Thought Experiment—in Real Life
Physicists just reconstructed a 19th-century paradox that seems to violate the second law of thermodynamics (but really doesn’t).Continue Reading
Brian Eno on Why He Wrote a Climate Album With Deepfake Birdsongs
The ambient music pioneer is back with ForeverAndEverNoMore, an album that wants to get you in touch with your climate emergency feelings.Continue Reading