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“I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in” – First Edition, Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was In), sound track to The Big Lebowski I have just been given a copy of Gad Saad’s The Parasitic Mind in which I read: “Some of the parasitic viruses of More

A young Nigerian man was very happy that the boy he has been helping with his education finally performed well in his 2022 WAEC. The boy cleared his papers.

“Sagebrush sea” is an endearing term that describes the vast high desert steppe lands of western North America. Rolling hills enveloped in silver green shimmer and sparkle like waves in the mid-day sun. This sea that spans the wide valleys and crests over plateaus connects the peaks and ridges from the shores of the Cascades More

We were just shy of two weeks and two-hundred miles into a walk across northern England, from the Cumbrian seaside town of St. Bees on the island’s West Coast to Robin Hood’s Bay on the East. A couple more hours and we’d march—or, in my case, limp—across the finish line of the itinerary popularized by More

Hosepipes are now banned in Kent and Sussex, while a drought is likely to be declared in some areas.

Qatar will now play Ecuador in the 2022 FIFA World Cup opener in Doha on November 20, stretching the World Cup to 29 days from the earlier agreed 28 days

[New Times] Lieutenant General Mubarakh Muganga, the chairman of local giants APR, has poured cold water on suggestions that the club would backtrack on its policy of only using home-grown players.

U.S. pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson announced it will no longer sell its talc-based baby power in 2023 following thousands of lawsuits that claim the product causes cancer.

Swansea University is working on a model like those used in Canada and Australia.

PRINCE Harry has been warned that the release of an Oprah-style "bombshell" memoir is "not the way to go".

Winning the battle to open a tin of beetroot, or sealed packs of cheese and crackers: shouldn’t it be a subject on the school syllabus?

Tennis superstar Ash Barty is working on a soon to be released tell-all memoir which will reveal the secret skill which gave her an edge in the game.

U.S. government programs for migrants who crossed the U.S. southern border are punitive and disjointed. Left-leaning political groupings may criticize, but they too have fallen short in conceptualizing lives of dignity for migrants in the United States. Nor do they adequately take into account adverse circumstances weighing on migrants’ lives in their home countries. First More

In July, the world celebrated 200 years since the birth of Gregor Mendel, who is widely accepted as the “father of modern genetics” for his discovery of the laws of inheritance. His experiments with peas, published in 1866 under the title “Experiments in Plant Hybridization,” identified dominant and recessive traits and how recessive traits would reappear in More

Saints Transport has entered administration after struggling with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the aviation sector. The company has appointed Paul Ellison and David Taylor of Reading-based KRE Corporate Recovery as its administrators. The Heathrow-based firm is the largest privately owned air freight specialist in the UK, employing around 350 staff and operating a fleet of 200 trucks. The company also specialises in high value security loads, temperature controlled transport, hanging garment carriers... Читать дальше...

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has perfected an idiom, call it pidgin propaganda, a rhetoric of meaningless slogans with a hole in the middle. To those financially involved with the Democratic Party, it may give some comfort, like humming to a baby in the crib, but to the rest of us it More

Theatre bosses say the play, I, Joan, will ‘offer the possibility of another point of view’ when it arrives later this month.

SMIC chief warns high inflation and a cyclical downturn in chip demand are slowing growth

Urvashi Rautela's post came a few hours after Rishabh Pant wrote 'Mera Picha Chhoro Behen' ( Leave me alone, sister) in a post that seemed to suggest she was taking his name for the sake of publicity.

By now, the images of the oil explosion that erupted in the Cuban province of Matanzas on Friday, August 5 and continues blazing have become international news. When lightning struck an oil tank in Cuba’s largest oil storage facility, it quickly exploded and began to spread to nearby tanks. As of now, four of the More

ASX- and TSX-V listed Austral Gold on Friday reported an armed robbery at its Guanaco-Amancaya mine complex, in Chile. The company told shareholders that a group of armed robbers assaulted the Guanaco-Amancaya mine complex and stole gold precipitate material equivalent to approximately 500 oz of gold from the Guanaco refinery.

Paul Connolly’s Kitchen Sink Drama is a slice of domestic life, captured masterfully in only 100 words. This week: Echoes of the past.

In an effort to keep up with the times and serve a profitable market segment,  southern-style comfort-food restaurant chain Cracker Barrel recently added a new item to its menu. “Experience the out of this world flavor of Impossible [TM] Sausage,” the “Old Country Store” announced in an August 1 Facebook post, accompanied by a photo More

On the technical charts, the RSI of the stock stood at 72.55.

Joseph Parker is confident in his ability to beat Joe Joyce and told the British heavyweight boxer that would 'make him quit' boxing. He faces Joyce on September 24 at the Manchester Arena.