Новости за 07.05.2020

Plus: My husband gave away my engagement ring without my permission.

Contrary to expectations, a very poor turnout was witnessed at liquor shops that opened in Haryana on Wednesday after around one-and-a-half months of lockdown.

I’m a big fan of elaborate castle/tower builds in Minecraft. People manage to tease some spectacularly baroque excess from just a meagre few varieties of textured cube, and ten years after I first came across the game, I’m still seeing entirely new ideas every time I have a poke around for inspiration. Reddit user and […]

As the legend turns 94 this May 8, Sony BBC Earth pays tribute to the natural historian’s legacy with some of his most astonishing creations

We studied 10,000 websites and found that their design has become more uniform over time. What does this mean for the future of creative expression on the internet?

'It is my duty... to be honest about the lack of PPE and testing as this is putting the lives of care workers and those they care for at risk,' says Nadine Whittome

My favourite Donald Sutherland performance has to be either ‘Kate Bush’s dad in the Cloudbusting video’ or ‘Éamonn Connor in Colonel Croesus, the 1970s war flick that inspired this communal Combat Mission scenario’. I know some critics felt he played the Irish nationalist turned Waffen-SS tank commander turned renegade treasure hunter too camp, but for […]

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The aspiring Panthera Team Asia Formula 1 squad is still aiming to be on the grid in 2022 when the category's new regulations come into force

The Korea Baseball Organization started regular season play this week

Young artists can understandably feel hesitant about trying new things. It’s hard enough to compete as a musician, for example. Why try to publish poetry or make visual art, too? Older, more established artists who branch out often have trouble being taken seriously in other fields. Patti Smith—poet, singer, memoirist, photographer, visual artist—has never seemed […]

Pimlico Plumbers boss, Charlie Mullins discusses the Government's Bounce Back Loan scheme, and whether it will help the UK's small-to-medium enterprises thrive again.

As countries around the world have tracked Covid-19, they’ve seen a sharp spike in another scourge, one of far longer duration and with no known cure: domestic violence. In the last weeks and months, confinement necessitated by the pandemic has caused an increase in calls to police and crisis centers, reporting severe beatings and murder-suicides in the home.

Zoom and Slack have blown up, but Box CEO Aaron Levie sees a second boom coming.

Germany’s famously tough driving schools are in lockdown, a microcosm of the toll that the pandemic is taking on small firms.

Professional rugby and netball are close to returning to action in New Zealand after the government unveiled its rules for sport when the country next eases its coronavirus restrictions.

W. L. Gore & Associates fosters a culture of innovation through a start-up mentality, despite being 60 years old Materials science business W. L. Gore & Associates is sixty years old, but to look at its culture and structure you would think it was a start-up. The business, which is referred to as an ‘Enterprise’ […]

The cutting board designed for the toughest jobs.

So-called granny cams are increasingly used by families to keep an eye on their loved ones in long-term care homes, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when in-person visits aren't possible. But some homes worry the cameras expose them to legal risk and have been hesitant to allow ones that record audio.

Vilnius, the capital of the Baltic nation of Lithuania, has created a giant “outdoor café" so its restaurants, bars and eateries can safely reopen. But how realistic is that?

Summary:

Despite being born into poverty John Cooke attained an education as a lawyer. While practicing law he realized the unfairness of the current legal system and wrote about how it ought to be reformed to be a system where a crime is a crime no matter who commits it. After the English Civil War King Charles I was put on trial for his heinous crimes, Cooke was the only lawyer in London brave enough to prosecute the king of the country. Despite his obscurity, John Cooke was a remarkable... Читать дальше...