|RECOMMENDED RAMBLINGS
|Breaking the COVID bread
There were some upsides to the whole lockdown and pandemic. For instance, the enclave I live in was triggered to start a WhatsApp group....
|Apologetic Integration
It is rather a disenchanting moment when the doctrine your parents subscribed to and expounded to you was not the armour you thought it was.It is...
|Finding Colour in Black
It’s the difference between listening to Shakespeare being read by Brain Blessed instead of Patrick Stewart. Both would be enjoyable but one...
|Season’s Greetings (2019)
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Peaceful New Year Christmas 2019 This year's Christmas card was made up of photographs taken at Hyde...
|Memo to David and the Cabinet
Can we address the issues now facing us? Can you put your own self-promotion aside?Dear elected politicians of any sort, please can we address...
|End of the Big Dream?
It's unlikely we will ever see a commercial avaiation success story like the Boeing 747 It was conceived on a fishing trip between the CEOs of...
|50 Facts About Shakespeare
The No Sweat Shakespeare website is a labor of love from London-based father and son Shakespeare enthusiasts John and Warren King.To commemorate...
|A new kind of Justice?
There is another scene of imprisoned foreign sex workers who are made to look dumb and gullible, thinking that Batman is some sort of devil This...
|Extraloveable
He never sold out to the corporate part of the music industryPrince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) 2016 has delivered several...

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood”
Agatha Christie
|HAPPENING ELSEWHERE
|Science
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Does the shipping industry's plan for net zero add up?
on 17 April | 2025
New global rules will see a carbon levy applied to emissions from shipping for the first time, but analysts say the package falls short of what is needed
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A classic hacking technique works on some quantum computers
on 17 April | 2025
Two independent research teams have developed methods for hacking noisy quantum computers based on a row-hammer attack, a type of interference used to infiltrate traditional computers
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Ancient computer's gears may not have been able to turn
on 17 April | 2025
The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming
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Astronomers claim strongest evidence of alien life yet
on 17 April | 2025
On a faraway planet, James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by living organisms – but researchers say we must interpret the results cautiously
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Vegan diets have good levels of key amino acids, but there's a catch
on 16 April | 2025
It is harder for our bodies to absorb key nutrients from plant-based foods, so some vegans may be short on essential amino acids for healthy muscles and bones despite eating plenty of protein
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Iron Age site was a purple dye factory for centuries
on 16 April | 2025
Beginning around 3000 years ago, Tel Shiqmona in modern-day Israel was a major centre for the production of Tyrian purple, a valuable commodity produced from marine snails
|DAYS UNTIL THE CIRCUS
BELGIAN GP [Spa-Francorchamps]
|General
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Four dead in cable car crash south of Naples
on 17 April | 2025 at 18:00
The cable car had been traversing the valley when a cable to one of the cabins snapped, local media report.
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Heavy snow blocks Alpine resorts in Switzerland...
on 17 April | 2025 at 17:09
A Swiss ski resort is cut off and people have been told to stay indoors in the French resort of Tignes.
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French-Haitian panel to study ex-colony's history
on 17 April | 2025 at 16:38
The French president announced the commission on the 200th anniversary of France ordering Haiti to pay a debt for its freedom.
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Travellers warned to expect Tenerife hotel...
on 17 April | 2025 at 16:27
Travellers are warned of disruptions as workers stage industrial action over pay and conditions.
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US issues warning over new Zambian cyber-security...
on 17 April | 2025 at 16:15
The US says a new Zambian law is more intrusive than equivalents in many other countries.
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Trump administration threatens Harvard with...
on 17 April | 2025 at 15:27
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the institution of "threatening national security".
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Zelensky urges US and Europe to pressure Russia...
on 17 April | 2025 at 15:07
A Kremlin spokesman dismissed the talks between Ukraine, Europe and the US, which took place in Paris.
