If you want to impress your dinner party guests with expensive wine that you can’t afford, lie to them about the price of cheap plonk. According to a team of experts at Basel University in Switzerland, cheap wine is perceived as more pleasant when we’re told it’s expensive. The researchers tested […]
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Eden Hazard picks up his EIGHTH injury at Real Madrid and is now out of Champions League last-16 second leg with Atalanta… with £88m Belgian star having already sat out 57% of games since joining from Chelsea in 2019 Eden Hazard has been devastated by injury since he moved to […]
Boris Johnson has made the admission to close allies, it has been suggested Britain’s first coronavirus lockdown came late because the Government’s scientific advisers were using out-of-date data, close allies of Boris Johnson have claimed. As the first anniversary of the March 23 shutdown approaches, senior sources have insisted Mr […]
AstraZeneca: Expert says suspension could ‘dent confidence’ Italy, Spain, France and Germany had signed up to a deal with Russia, the country’s investment chief confirmed today. The European factories will be used to supply the vaccine to Europe “once approval is granted by European Medicines Agency,” according to Kirill Dmitriev, […]
Most people aren’t particularly fond of needles. But to a significant number of people, the fear of needles goes beyond merely inducing anxiety into a more dangerous area, in which the fear prevents them from seeking out needed medical care. And as the world’s hopes of returning to a post-pandemic […]
The 2021 Academy Award nominations were announced on Monday, with a record-breaking list coming out following on from new diversity requirements from the academy. Leading the numbers of the nominations came from Mank, which scored an incredible 10 including Best Leading Actor and Best Film, followed on by The Father, […]
One area where it appears that vaccines are getting less traction is in prison. Nicole Lewis of The Marshall Project and Michael R. Sisak of the Associated Press report today on the difficulties of getting staff in America’s jails to take the Covid shots. They report that in Massachusetts, more […]
We have a massive problem with electronics waste. Globally, we throw out 50 million tons of it every year, which is the equivalent of 1,000 laptops every second. Recycling is still not universal, and often it costs more to recycle something due to how it was built than the materials […]