Monday, August 14, 2023
Cartoon by Emily Bernstein
The 10 best jokes from the Edinburgh festival 2023
Olaf Falafel: Getting mythology wrong is my Hercules ankle.
Leila Navabi: I have an unconscious bias. I’m biased firmly towards being unconscious.
Sikisa: Cats are like strippers – they sit on your lap and make you think they love you.
Liz Guterbock: The UK is so small, they’ve got to keep all their lakes in one district.
Richard Stott: I have a suntanning addiction, so only go on holiday in winter. I went cold Turkey last year.
Ginny Hogan: Everyone says your 20s are all about finding yourself. If that’s true, your 30s are about wishing you’d found somebody else.
Alison Spittle: What does Kylie sing while counting sheep? I can’t get ewe out of my head.
Eric Rushton: There’s a lot of shame surrounding sex. After I have sex with someone, they often whisper “that’s a shame”.
Kuan-Wen Huang: My relationship with my mum is like the evolution of payment technology – we went from physical contact to electronic only, then it was contactless.
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Word on the Street
Forget 10,000 Steps.
That takeaway shouldn’t dissuade anyone from taking a longer stroll; the researchers found that more movement is better, with each additional 1,000 steps per day associated with a roughly 15% lower risk of premature death. But it joins a growing body of research that suggests workouts don’t need to be all that grueling or lengthy to improve your health.
Everything from walking to housework to dancing can contribute to well-being, studies have shown.
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Friday, August 11, 2023
Greengrocer at Crow Road Market, Damien Cifelli
It’s time for a new climate populism, to show how the super rich got us – and the planet – into this mess by Andy Beckett
Alliances between the rich and financially stretched or anxious parts of the working class and middle class have often sustained the right, ever since the arrival of democracy made a more popular conservatism essential. These coalitions have used the same basic argument against necessary reforms as the anti-green movement is using now. This says that the cost, practical difficulties and general disruptiveness of change are too large. Meanwhile, the status quo is either rosily presented as stable and sustainable, or as the least bad option.
Yet behind such reassurances something important and potentially explosive lurks unmentioned: that the rich will be able to avoid the climate crisis for longer than the rest of us.
When the weather becomes intolerable in one country, they can more easily move to another. Or they can retreat into climate-controlled private spaces. In his 2016 book Vertical, Stephen Graham shows how the growing segregation of cities is creating “apartheid atmospheres”: air-purified towers and below-ground complexes for elite residents. Like latter-day castles, these enclaves shut out an increasingly harsh outside world. Meanwhile, through the heat expelled by their air conditioning systems, they make that world worse for everyone else.
This could be the first confirmed evidence for a fifth force on nature.
According to current understanding, there are four fundamental forces in nature, three of which – the electromagnetic force and the strong and weak nuclear forces – are explained by the standard model of particle physics.
However, the model does not explain the other known fundamental force, gravity, or dark matter – a strange and mysterious substance thought to make up about 27% of the universe.
Now researchers have said there could be another, fifth, fundamental force of nature.
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Maui fires
Raging wildfires fanned by hurricane winds have devastated the historic town of Lahaina on Hawaii's island of Maui.
Walk around like a cartoon character in Croc boots
Can a bra detect breast cancer?
AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas
The bot recommends the recipe as “the perfect nonalcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses”.
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Girl with Floral Sweater and Necklace, Erik Mark Sandberg
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Lula pledges ‘new Amazon dream’ at rainforest summit
The Brazilian leftist promised to repair his country’s environmental and international reputation after four “disastrous” years under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, during which the rainforest and Indigenous communities came under growing attack. “Thankfully … we have managed to turn this sad page in our history,” said Lula, who took power in January after thwarting Bolsonaro’s re-election plans.
Hoodies sell out in Tonga as El Niño brings wintry chill
The current cold snap is linked to the El Niño weather phenomenon and comes amid changing climate patterns, as parts of the northern hemisphere swelter through extreme heatwaves.
TMS issued an El Niño alert in July which told Tongans to prepare for cooler nights, less rainfall and more cyclones over the next months.
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Air pollution is helping to drive a rise in antibiotic resistance , a global study suggests.
The analysis, using data from more than 100 countries spanning nearly two decades, indicates that increased air pollution is linked with rising antibiotic resistance across every country and continent.
It also suggests the link between the two has strengthened over time, with increases in air pollution levels coinciding with larger rises in antibiotic resistance.
Antibiotic resistance is one of the fastest-growing threats to global health. It can affect people of any age in any country and is already killing 1.3 million people a year, according to estimates.
Japan's creative cooling solutions, Daniel Seifert
What Do You See in These Pictures?
Photo by Gina Reneé Finnesen.
Photo by Kirsty Louise.
Pareidolia is the human tendency to see faces in things that aren't faces.
40×40, Kevin Schott
He quit his job after 10 years and taught himself how to pain in oils. In addition to his studio work, Schott leads graffiti workshops for kids and teenagers. The way they see the world has become a source of inspiration for his paintings.
His current series, “40×40,” will be completed at the end of the year with a small book.
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Harry Styles, David Hockney
Monday, August 7, 2023
Abi Castillo’s Playful Ceramics
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