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The history and meaning of Children’s Day in Japan
Shin Okamoto/Shutterstock In Japan, Children’s Day – Kodomo no Hi – is held on May 5 and marks the final national holiday of the period known as Golden Week. This is a series of national holidays that allows Japanese people to take the best part of a week off toContinue Reading
Local elections are about the most important issues affecting our daily lives – so why do they always become a referendum on the prime minister?
Alamy/Daniel Leal-Olivas As the dust settles on another round of local elections in the UK, parties are seeking to spin the results to suit their own narratives. For months, the May 5 elections had been framed as crunch day for Boris Johnson. A poor result was to be taken asContinue Reading
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder explained
Stephanie Foo, an award-winning radio producer, suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder, a disorder that in her country (the US) “doesn’t officially exist”. In her new book, What My Bones Know, Foo writes movingly about what it’s like to live with complex PTSD and her long journey to getting aContinue Reading
The standard model of particle physics may be broken – an expert explains
The storage-ring magnet for the Muon G-2 experiment at Fermilab. Reidar Hahn/wikipedia, CC BY-SA As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?”. Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply “AsideContinue Reading
Worst secondary schools according to Ofsted revealed – is your school on the list?
THE worst performing secondary schools in England according to Ofsted have been revealed – is yours on the list? Schools across the country have been facing unprecedented pressures recently as they have had to contend with the Covid pandemic and some have found this harder than others. Alamy Schools areContinue Reading
What the Gazza documentary gets wrong about domestic violence
The new BBC two-part documentary, Gazza, opens with the solitary figure of former international football star and fallen hero, Paul Gascoigne, fishing alone in a deserted lake. Taking as its title Gascoigne’s nickname, Gazza presents the footballer as a man more sinned against by the press than guilty of hisContinue Reading
Released date announced for Will Young’s new documentary about the death of his twin
T he release date has been announced for British singer Will Young’s new documentary Will Young: Losing my Twin Rupert about the death of his brother, who died by suicide in 2020 aged 41. Rupert Young had battled alcoholism for over 20 years. “I’m very honoured and proud to tellContinue Reading
CDC investigating 109 cases of severe hepatitis in kids across two dozen states, including 5 deaths
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating 109 cases of severe hepatitis in children, including five deaths, to determine a cause, with adenovirus infection as a primary line of inquiry, the public health agency said Friday. More than 90% of the children were hospitalized and 14% required liverContinue Reading
Roe v Wade to be overturned? What this would mean for reproductive rights around the world
Reproductive rights have been an urgent topic of discussion around the world in recent days, following the leak of a draft opinion of the US supreme court, written by Justice Samuel Alito, in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. If enacted by the court, this opinion wouldContinue Reading
Troy Deeney: Nottingham Forest have been best team in Championship under Steve Cooper… but I think Sheff Utd will go up
NOTTINGHAM FOREST have been the best team in the Championship since Steve Cooper took over — but I fancy Sheffield United to get promoted in the play-offs. The stats show that had the season started on September 21 — the day the Welshman got the City Ground job — ForestContinue Reading