Russians are being asked to make the ultimate sacrifice; no drinking alcohol for six weeks after taking the country’s COVID-19 vaccine.
WTF?
wtf
Olympics 2024: Breakdancing confirmed as new sport for Paris games
The decision was confirmed by the International Olympic Committee on Monday, as it seeks to attract a younger audience to the historic competition.
Steaks Grown From Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
The installation of steak grown from human cells at the Design Museum in London was intended to criticize the meat industry’s rising use of living cells from animals. It ended up triggering a roiling debate about bioethics and the pitfalls of artistic critique.
China Is Rolling Out An Enormous “Weather Modification” System
This week, the Chinese government announced that it plans to drastically increase its use of technology that artificially changes the weather.
Cloud seeding technology, or systems that can blasts silver molecules into the sky to prompt condensation and cloud formation, has been around for decades, and China makes frequent use of it. But now, CNN reports that China wants to increase the total size of its weather modification test area to 5.5 million square miles by 2025 — a huge increase, and an area larger than that of the entire country of India, which could affect the environment on an epic scale and even potentially spur conflict with nearby countries.
First they came for the “Essex Girl” Jokes But I was from Surrey
‘Essex girl’ removed from dictionary following campaign
The expression “Essex girl” has been removed from a dictionary used to teach English after a campaign by women from the county who described the term as offensive.
According to the Oxford University Press, “Essex girl” was previously defined as “a name used especially in jokes to refer to a type of young woman who is not intelligent, dresses badly, talks in a loud and ugly way and is very willing to have sex.”
It has now been removed from the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, used to teach non-native English speakers, after a campaign group called the Essex Girls Liberation Front said using the expression was “very offensive”.
‘Havana Syndrome’ likely caused by microwave energy, government study finds
The mysterious neurological symptoms experienced by American diplomats in China and Cuba are consistent with the effects of directed microwave energy, according to a long-awaited report by the National Academies of Sciences that cites medical evidence to support the long-held conviction of American intelligence officials.
The report, obtained Friday by NBC News, does not conclude that the directed energy was delivered intentionally, by a weapon, as some U.S. officials have long believed. But it raises that disturbing possibility.
‘Why Journo So Bitter’: Jordan Peterson Hits Back at Guardian Op-ed on His ‘Bigotry’
Canadian professor of psychology Jordan Peterson has taken to Twitter to repost a recent Guardian op-ed suggesting “the lobster-loving life coach’s” speech “is bigoted”, wondering what has “made the journalist so bitter”
Peppa Pig: Psychologists find ‘shocking’ levels of violence in children’s TV show
Experts have found “shocking” levels of violence in children’s television shows, including Peppa Pig.
A new study looking into violence featured in animated series and films found that more than eight moments of pain and brutality were inflicted across a selected range of entertainment aimed at children.
The characters appeared sympathetic to the victims of pain in just half of the incidents, with a lack of empathy recorded in several other instances.
London livid as more than 35 ‘dangerous’ Jamaican criminals avoid deportation flight after last-minute legal challenges
The UK immigration minister has blasted lawyers’ tactics after their eleventh-hour legal challenges prevented more than 35 Jamaican murderers, rapists and other criminals from being deported on Wednesday morning.
Speaking on Wednesday, immigration minister Chris Philp said that 13 “dangerous” criminals had been deported in the early hours on Wednesday morning, but many had been left off the flight due to last-minute legal challenges by their lawyers.
‘If a non-trans person played a trans character there would be uproar’: Umbrella Academy fans react to news Ellen Page will continue playing female role in Netflix show after announcing she is a transgender man
Confused fans of the Netflix show The Umbrella Academy have called it ‘political correctness gone crazy’ that Elliot Page will continue playing a female character despite coming out as a transgender man when it’s considered unfair for cis people to play trans roles.
On Tuesday, Elliot – who is best known for his role as Juno, when he played a pregnant teenage girl and went by the name Ellen – announced that he was transgender and that his pronouns are ‘he and they’.
He was universally embraced by Hollywood; stars like Ellen DeGeneres congratulated him and Netflix announced that he would stay on in his role as Vanya Hargreaves, a cisgender lesbian, in The Umbrella Academy, which he has already held for two seasons.
So now she’s a lesbian playing a guy?
Adolf Hitler wins election in Namibia: Promises ‘I’m not striving for world domination’
A politician named after Adolf Hitler has won a seat at a Namibian election – but says he has no plans for world domination.
Adolf Hitler Uunona was elected with 85 per cent of the vote in the former German colony, where a number of streets, places and people still bear German names.
Darth Vader statue erected on Bristol plinth once belonging to BLM-toppled monument to slave trader
A statue of Darth Vader has appeared on a Bristol plinth where Black Lives Matter activists tore down a monument to slave trader Edward Colston. Actor Dave Prowse, who played the iconic villain in Star Wars, died in recent days.
