Australian Anna Ryan-Punch was 15 when she received her first friendship book – a handmade and decorated pocket-sized booklet full of names and addresses of people looking for pen pals. Recipients were invited to add their details to the list, send a letter to other signatories and then pass the booklet on to someone new….
1 seeds Florida & Duke prep for Elite 8 against Texas Tech & Alabama Mackenzie Salmon breaks down Elite 8 matchups, as No. 1 Florida will take on No. 3 Texas Tech and No. 1 Duke will verse No. 2 Alabama. Sports Seriously The Final Four of the NCAA men’s tournament is just one win…
“Smell it, but don’t stick your nose straight in it,” says Michael O’Shaughnessy, pulling a small white card, sealed twice in ziplock bags, out of a metal chest. “Waft it, close your eyes. Does it remind you of anything?” O’Shaughnessy, an illustrator and senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, first began using smells with…
A British man living in Italy has admitted stabbing his partner to death, claiming he did it after she accused him of cheating on her. Michael Whitbread, 75, told a court he could not remember how many times he stabbed fellow Briton Michele Faiers, 66, in October 2023. The couple had been living in a…
I don’t know if you can believe it, but we’re fast approaching the end of January. And I want to kick off the first review recap of 2025 by acknowledging how busy it’s already been. CES 2025, which to me seemed to go on for a year, now feels like it happened months ago. We’ve…
A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for the disease caused by excess body fat. Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of…