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Ashes 2017: England Women cover all bases for revenge mission Down Under

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Read This And You May Never Eat Chicken Again

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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikWU7QdVD4SzxKwnlxqNLfXHRvESK8i9oC3ARDlbSRApWmoiT4B7qMwIToK-Unijlbp0FByIGQicI9fgibstm8FE0QSJ7NcJRWVIdMRpoiPPngE3SkytODNqsyLVHHLw341mfpfpSTPgAm/s1600/2017-10-14_19-30-30.png This article titled “Read this and you may never eat chicken again” was written by Maryn McKenna, for theguardian.com on Friday 13th October 2017 09.00 UTC Every year I spend some time in a tiny apartment in Paris, seven stories above the mayor’s offices for the 11th arrondissement. The Place de la Bastille – the spot where the French revolution sparked political change that transformed the world – is a 10-minute walk down a narrow street that threads between student nightclubs and Chinese fabric wholesalers. Twice a week, hundreds of Parisians crowd down it, heading to the marché de la Bastille , stretched out along the center island of the Boulevard Richard Lenoir. Related: ‘A chicken worth eating tastes like a chick...

Chinese museum accused of racism over photos pairing Africans with animals

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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfYmS4B6goy5JKBYuTsB4VKYvsGCxLUn7IHosB8KULg_J5-Vj6UGkd4Mq5VRvNWuUSBzX54ylhNwwAitq8FXCfe9lze2dGOX1cuuj1UsS7hNDA3XdjnJU8BVEsGRaFh9tvMjbI7Fcv-rDc/s1600/2017-10-14_19-24-51.png This article titled “Chinese museum accused of racism over photos pairing Africans with animals” was written by Benjamin Haas in Hong Kong, for theguardian.com on Saturday 14th October 2017 04.27 UTC A museum in China has removed an exhibit this week that juxtaposed photographs of animals with portraits of black Africans, sparking complaints of racism. The exhibit titled This Is Africa at the Hubei Provincial Museum in the city of Wuhan displayed a series of diptychs, each one containing a photo of an African person paired with the face of an animal. In a particularly striking example, a child with his mouth wide open was paired with a gorilla and other works included baboons and cheetahs. Related: Dove apologises for ad showing black woman turnin...

Upcoming Movie "Tumhari Sulu" Official Trailer

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Magic mushrooms 'reboot' brain in depressed people – study

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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqTWWAUrrT6XZt9u6tdq5nzi3RnlF1OQXm4GJTXsSd1A-0zS8W6llhPRVo5km-r52vLwDzBnl4HJFxveqJI3FVZmSHt18diIvDgaN0dWh0UcfvmC1yQmwdgAG1LuX4nMvyQ80tKb7KvfdG/s1600/2017-10-14_9-54-04.png This article titled “Magic mushrooms ‘reboot’ brain in depressed people – study” was written by Haroon Siddique, for The Guardian on Friday 13th October 2017 09.00 UTC Magic mushrooms may effectively “reset” the activity of key brain circuits known to play a role in depression, the latest study to highlight the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics suggests. Psychedelics have shown promising results in the treatment of depression and addictions in a number of clinical trials over the last decade. Imperial College London researchers used psilocybin – the psychoactive compound that occurs naturally in magic mushrooms – to treat a small number of patients with depression, monitoring their brain function, before...

Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth within months

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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOCwRBPLF3T-gx6smKcY93F1AYC-9vEGaEQMg7Eo6WFixZaYNr8z6r9evL4flZFIAZjXPyVza_ybmaz0W2aCIht7zJgjRQ8qYS3sFZh-JqKIeBdKg_n9szQa9HlzeisXkF2LXur_D0giX/s1600/2017-10-14_9-50-24.png This article titled “Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth within months” was written by Michael Slezak, for theguardian.com on Saturday 14th October 2017 00.43 UTC An 8.5-tonne Chinese space station has accelerated its out-of-control descent towards Earth and is expected to crash to the surface within a few months. The Tiangong-1 or “Heavenly Palace” lab was launched in 2011 and described as a “potent political symbol” of China, part of an ambitious scientific push to turn China into a space superpower . It was used for both manned and unmanned missions and visited by China’s first female astronaut, Liu Yang, in 2012. But in 2016, after months of speculation, Chinese officials confirmed they had lost...

‘Tribes and shamans become your hosts’ – India’s remote Arunachal Pradesh

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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizLB9E9kWggJaqRa5lkITT_xjUc1pWQYaKYSMEVNPWJgMb08trNrmX4mV9EmmjLnITRRKc64rsGUweNMusPE77TcUrvbaMPnPET1W9ZMvyIlMHcvQnUawCLycXADnCi4yLOCFDjLhVGAU/s1600/2017-10-13_7-49-32.png This article titled “‘Tribes and shamans become your hosts’ – India’s remote Arunachal Pradesh” was written by Interview by Caroline Eden, for The Guardian on Friday 15th September 2017 12.45 UTC Arunachal Pradesh feels very removed from the rest of India. It rises up like a sheer green wall from the flat Assam valley. Foreigners have been allowed in since 1998, but it’s still not an easy place to get around. Many of us think we know India but this remote, far north-eastern corner is a blank space in the popular imagination. Arunachal Pradesh map Often, there is very little evidence of civilisation as we know it. From remote villages you just see an endless landscape of green hills, creasing and rippling away to the ho...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai: 'I don't know whether humans want change that fast'

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Intel laptops are too expensive. Will AMD Ryzen machines be cheaper?

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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGhv6IKOFuU_Y86SiLlbF74sF5WGcniK4yRtgtfO3N6UhoOyp9H14tsjGVQp2w5rfCCj-JquxlaJEKcLJGUHt1GBLm0rj3gxBbxddIMehfmoUj40vC8JCbBQoe62mU1Voc6hFfYS8AE0/s1600/2017-10-13_7-35-26.png This article titled “Intel laptops are too expensive. Will AMD Ryzen machines be cheaper?” was written by Jack Schofield, for theguardian.com on Thursday 12th October 2017 10.13 UTC The “light but mighty” (in speed and capacity) laptops from Dell, HP and Microsoft seem to me to be very expensive because Intel sells processors at premium prices. Now that AMD has produced Ryzen chips, can you foresee if and when these makers will produce desirable laptops with cheaper AMD chips? I can afford to pay Intel’s price premium, but I’d be more likely to buy if the £1,600 price came down to, say, £1,200. Cliff The good news is that Ryzen-based laptops will be here soon. The bad news is that the first ones won’t be ultra...

Imperfect Test Championship feels compromised even before launch

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Indian airport stops 29 passengers using ‘rectal concealment’ to smuggle gold

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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNyOwS46S-fy3XtfTmPdLtAtViWG42wsUb4YkgdFEGtPeKwP_p5cj1s1aJ_Rm4gywYR7Y5ed669W04-dEQu7XyMNsL68ZI_Kyu8G3-T9-6-wANdyEGxSecFSu3UKi_q15I2Onr4e8j4d8/s1600/2017-10-11_7-49-27.png This article titled “Indian airport stops 29 passengers using ‘rectal concealment’ to smuggle gold” was written by Michael Safi in Delhi, for theguardian.com on Tuesday 10th October 2017 12.18 UTC Indian customs authorities have discovered 29 people hiding gold in their rectums on two flights that landed at a southern airport on Sunday. More than 10kg (22lb) of the precious metal were found on at least 37 passengers on the two flights from the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, that landed at Madurai international airport in Tamil Nadu. Some had wedged the pieces, ranging from 30 to 600 grams, into their hand-luggage or children’s pushchairs. Others opted for a more “ingenious way of concealment”, according to India’s D...