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U.S. reports over 1 million new daily Covid cases as omicron surges
US Army Critical Care Nurse, Captain Edward Rauch Jr. (L), turns a Covid-19 patient on a ventilator at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan on December, 17, 2021. The U.S. reported a record number of new Covid cases on Monday, with over one million new infections. A total of 1,082,549 newContinue Reading
How to make Dry January a success
Monstar Studio/Shutterstock Dry January, the campaign led by Alcohol Change UK that challenges people to get through January without alcohol, is now in its tenth year. In that time it has grown from 4,000 people signing up in 2013 to over 130,000 last year – although it’s likely that aContinue Reading
How could the Big Bang arise from nothing?
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
Why investors are spending billions on Bruce Springsteen and Red Hot Chili Pepper records
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
Exmouth RNLI lifeboats rescue three cut off by the tide
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
‘Barca are back’ – Barcelona confirm Haaland interest and issue transfer warning
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
No ‘Mystery’ where this ‘Love’ is concerned!
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
The true story behind A Very British Scandal and the Duchess of Argyll
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
How COVID-19 transformed genomics and changed the handling of disease outbreaks forever
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
How a handful of prehistoric geniuses launched humanity’s technological revolution
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