Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Don’t Look Up
U.S. Has ‘No Evidence’ of Alien Technology
A new report from the United States Department of Defense found no evidence that the U.S. government has access to any extraterrestrial technology, refuting claims that the Pentagon has hidden recovered alien materials from the public and attempted to re-engineer alien spacecraft.
The Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) delivered the report to Congress last week. The 63-page document reviews government records related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.
“AARO has found no evidence that any U.S. government investigation, academic-sponsored research or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology,” Pentagon press secretary Major General Pat Ryder says in a statement.
“All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification.”
Monday, March 11, 2024
Tell-tale signs of image manipulation
But that has backfired spectacularly after the princess was forced to admit she had edited it.
"Oppenheimer" dominated, as expected.
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer has triumphed at this year’s Oscars taking home seven awards including best picture, best actor and best director.
The drama, telling the story of the “father of the atomic bomb”, lost the box office battle to Barbie during last summer’s Barbenheimer showdown but has now won the awards war with Greta Gerwig’s Mattel comedy winning just one Oscar for best original song.
Cillian Murphy was named best actor for his performance, beating out Paul Giamatti and Jeffrey Wright, and Robert Downey Jr was named best supporting actor, up against Robert De Niro and Ryan Gosling.
Emma Stone pulled a surprise, beating out favourite Lily Gladstone to be named best actress for her role in Yorgos Lanthimos’s offbeat period comedy Poor Things. It’s the actor’s second best actress Oscar after previously winning for La La Land.
The film also picked up awards for production design, hairstyling and makeup and costume design.
Jonathan Glazer’s German and Polish-language Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest was named best international feature, the first ever British film to win in this category. The film also won for sound.
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Red panda found in luggage of smuggling suspects at Thailand airport
Officers found 87 animals, including monitor lizards, birds and snakes, packaged inside the suspects’ checked luggage at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport. They were trying to fly to Mumbai.
If you want to look your best in the morning, it may be worth swapping the ultra-processed pastries for wholemeal toast.
Researchers in France found that people who ate a breakfast rich in refined carbohydrates were rated less attractive than those who started the day with healthier unrefined carbs.
Scientists at the University of Montpellier believe the subtle shift in facial attractiveness may be driven by changes in blood sugar and insulin that can affect skin appearance and have longer-term effects on sex hormones.
Monday, March 4, 2024
Flora and Fauna, Hippie North
Her wood-burning art is incredibly realistic, see more.
Chris Oh's paintings pays homage to the masters of the Northern Renaissance.
Greenlandic women sue Danish state for contraceptive ‘violation’
Nearly 150 Greenlandic women have sued the Danish state, alleging that they were fitted with the contraceptive coil without their consent or knowledge.
A group of 143 women took legal action on Monday, demanding a collective payment of close to 43m Danish kroner for what they describe as a violation of their human rights.
Some of the women were as young as 12 when they say they were fitted with an intrauterine device (IUD) by Danish doctors in an attempt to reduce Greenland’s population.
It is believed that 4,500 women and girls were affected between 1966 and 1970.
Last October, 67 women came forward to demand that the state compensate them, or face legal action, but the government did not act. Since then, the number of women – each seeking 300,000 Danish kroner – has more than doubled.
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My body, my choice
There was thunderous applause in the chamber as the result was announced on Monday; in central Paris, the Eiffel Tower was illuminated to mark the occasion.
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
At least 30,228 Palestinians killed by Israeli military action in Gaza since 7 October
At least 30,228 Palestinians have been killed and 71,377 have been injured in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement.
Reuters reports the ministry gave the total casualties in the past 24 hours, which include casualties from the incident where Israeli troops are accused of firing at a crowd gathered to receive humanitarian aid, as 193 Palestinians killed and 920 injured.
Alexei Navalny’s memorial service
A long line has formed before the entry to the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows where Navalny’s memorial service will take place in just under two hours https://t.co/G0oJtu1awh pic.twitter.com/IcVHLDI7CQ
— Pjotr Sauer (@PjotrSauer) March 1, 2024
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Never Quit
by Emma Beddington, pictures selected by Sarah Gilbert.
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