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What happens now to the clinically vulnerable?
Starting from a far higher level of risk, those with suppressed immune systems also get less protection from vaccines and are accounting for an increasing proportion of ICU admissions and deaths. Yet many feel like a “forgotten minority”, according to… Read More ›
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Buy your books from Waterstones, not WH Smith
“When the last Richard Osman came out, Penguin bought the number one spot on all WH Smith in-store bestseller charts so it had to be displayed as the bestseller in every single store, whether it actually was or not,” Barry… Read More ›
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100 seconds to midnight
Every January, the scientists assess how close the world is to ending, in their view, and use knowledge of how things have changed to move the clock either closer or farther away from midnight. To quote Prince’s prescient 1999 lyrics,… Read More ›
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Famous for cajoling killers into confessing to their crimes
The woman was Bobbie Sue Hill. Nearly a decade before this conversation, kids had stumbled upon her body in a creek bed under a bridge, less than a mile from Driskill’s home. Investigators pieced together that she was a 29-year-old… Read More ›
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The BBC cannot see a queue, a very big queue
This is becoming a very big problem, one that was easily seen way before Brexit changes came into effect. And it seems that most of the British media cannot see it, or to be more accurate are (being told?) choosing… Read More ›
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Marking Apple messages as unread
But the most popular messaging app on iOS, Messages, has never implemented “Mark as Unread” even though users have been clamoring for it for years and it’s been rumored that they tested it. What’s even wilder is that iMessage doesn’t… Read More ›
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Drawings of Root Systems
We know that plants can inspire art. If you, personally, still require convincing on that point, just have a look at Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants, the drawings of Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious… Read More ›
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Should Apple buy Peloton?
Peloton is having a very bad week. On Thursday, CNBC reported that the company is putting the brakes on the production of its products for at least the next two months. It’s as clear a sign as there is that… Read More ›
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Man uses 72-year-old toaster every day
A man who uses his 72-year-old toaster every day said he was embracing the spirit of the wartime generation. Jimmy James, from Stanwick, in Northamptonshire, said the toaster was manufactured in December 1949 and given to his parents as a… Read More ›
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The Voyager Tricorder V2
You have to be a senior fan/nerd to take the time to create this, but boy is it ultra impressive. Wow this one really has been a LONG time coming.I originally started work on this new updated version over 2… Read More ›
