A Canadian anti-trans activist is testing the Australian online regulator’s power to censor an X post allegedly bullying a trans man, arguing the removal notice issued to Elon Musk’s platform was overreach on a political statement. In March last year, eSafety sent a notice to X requesting that a tweet by a prominent anti-trans user,…
Antonia Murphy has always loved water. It can be warm or icy, wild or maintained in a municipal facility. Although “not a great swimmer”, she is a confident one. So when she moved to Edinburgh two years ago, she promptly checked out the public leisure centre. She was captivated by the alluring, deep blue of…
A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked central Myanmar on March 28 at about 12:50 p.m. local time, leaving at least 144 people confirmed dead so far and triggering widespread damage across both Myanmar and Thailand. Buildings collapsed, roads broke and at least one dam and a bridge crumbled. A magnitude 6.4 aftershock followed just 10…
WHO: earthquake has ‘overwhelmed healthcare facilities’ in Myanmar, with three hospitals reported destroyed The World Health Organization said it has reports of three hospitals destroyed and 22 partially damaged in the region affected by Friday’s earthquake. “The scale of deaths and injuries is not yet fully understood and the numbers are expected to increase,” the…
“If you’d asked me a couple of months ago, my answer might have been different,” says Dr Rosalind Simpson, a medical dermatologist at the University of Nottingham. Historically, she says, daily washing was seen as problematic. It was thought that it might alter the skin’s microbiome, stripping away natural protective oils and beneficial bacteria. People also…
When you think of the Bloomsbury Group – the writers, artists and intellectuals who congregated at 46 Gordon Square in London in the early 20th century – you might think of Virginia Woolf; the Omega Workshops, which brought fine art to modernist designs; Charleston, a farmhouse in Sussex, frequented by core members who painted every…