The ‘pogrom’, as it came to be known, cast a long shadow over Tbilisi. While things have improved somewhat in the subsequent years, it’s been clear that the rainbow road is not without its potholes; in 2016 there were 30 violent attacks against members of the LGBTQ+ community, inclu...
Like Diet For A Small Planet — or Marxism — it is the sort of system that is self-verifying inside the system, and as long as you don’t leave the system is completely logical. You know, in a world where cows eat the same humans eat, and where all land is equally arable, and...
everything is fair game, and temple staff have become experts at 'buying' the valuables back with pieces of food. But this behaviour is actually quite unusual in wild animals, and now for the first time researchers have some answers on what drives these long-tailed macaques ...
Does he realise just how much energy is wasted in this long process and what the cost of the motion will be? You are starting with very expensive electricity in the first place before all the waste of perhaps as much as 80% of it. Does he realise how much C02 will be emitted when...
Scala reached the FBI's mandatory retirement age in 2008 and is now a private detective based on Long Island. But he has kept the investigative notes he took on his FBI cases, including the Donaghy case. Not long ago, he brought them out, looked at them and told me about them over th...
But you're not telling me everything, are you? RENNIE (long pause) Whenever I get near the water, I see this young boy drowning. He tries to pull me down with him. The teacher didn't expect this, taking a thoughtful pause. MISS VAN DEUSEN When did this start? RENNIE About four ...
Political leaders know this works; they speak to us, as do Obama and others, dropping the tone and pitch of the last word to a convincing rest mode in each sentence they want us to believe; our unconscious mind tends to accept the sentence “That’s right.” Knowing how this works can...
hard time about the privacy and who you could ask plenty of family related questions to. And then you found that your own brain scan was that of a psychopath even though this is what you had been studying for a long time or one of many things that you'd been studying for a long ...
In one study, researchers who did such accounting concluded that “the world is closer to exceeding the budget for the long-term target of the Paris climate agreement than previously thought.” Said study lead author Thomas Gasser:“Since we are officially on an overshooting trajectory, we have...
“I am a matchmaker,” Rosenbaum is quoted as saying at the meeting, “I’m doing this a long time.” He then added: “Let me explain to you one thing. It’s illegal to buy or sell organs. So you cannot buy it. What you do is, you give me a compensation for my time ...