A growing number of people are suffering from 'chemical sensitivity', a near allergic response to volatile organic compounds commonly found in perfumes, room sprays, and cleaning products. When people surround themselves with a miasma of scent, they're...
The protests in Belarus have been enormously uplifting - peaceful, joyful, and happy, with women carrying flowers and everyone listening to the woman who is leading it all at the moment, Mariya Kolesnikova. Even if you can’t understand Russian, I highly...
Data collection on chronic covid symptoms is vital. If we don't know how many people have long tail covid or how long for or how it is affecting them we have little chance of effectively treating these people. There's likely to be big, ongoing illness...
Take air travel to a far-flung destination, join an enormous cruise liner to go even further afield, disembark at fascinating, tiny places in the distant third world and spend a few Dollars on a coffee and a postcard for the beloved grandchildren, dump...
The best diet is, depending, the Japanese diet or the Mediterranean diet. Neither have a lot of sugar in them and Italians don’t drink vast amounts of alcohol either - Unlike like the Northern Europeans. There’s loads of calories in alcohol and most Britons...
This year plenty many of Edinburgh residents that are delighted that the Festival has been cancelled this year. I used to love the buzz of the festival but simply too many 'culture tourists' making residents lives unworkable - sky high rents, not enough...
It’s worth considering that the 1918 pandemic could be clearly identified as an event in itself compared to other outbreaks of very serious disease. A hundred years on, the West has developed healthcare systems and an arsenal of therapies, starting with...
moving in one direction immune suppression spikes and hot points decisions that have been made intimately involved finally getting statistics announcement was made dammed if you do dammed if you don't people making their own decisions permissions to stay...
Bee farmers aim to run profitable business enterprises based on the management of stocks of honey bees. Businesses in the United Kingdom (UK) vary in scale from part-time concerns providing an additional income stream from self-employment to large-scale...
Last weekend we were visited by a single working mother with a 6 year old daughter. During lockdown she was one of the 80 % of parents who didn't send her child back to school, preferring to use babysitters, and online help from teachers. In between times...
It is neither a question of optimism or pessimism, but of realism. As the US Fed warned yesterday, it cannot on its own stem a depression. And the reasons given are political and medical. Put bluntly,unless the US government can get its act together to...
Those who subsist in the financial market bubble are so desperately glued to their screens that they are incapable of seeing the wider picture and grasp only at those straws that might keep their dream alive for the next five minutes. Do they ever take...
For months, there has been speculation about how society will emerge from lockdown. From a rise in digital communication to an increase in neighbourly spirit, there have been promising signs of a better way out of this crisis, a just way forward that...
all big cities should have to think of the excess of vehicle movement that is not productive but impairs on those that live in the city. By re-localising and bringing together all the workers and residents in each neighbourhood, with their own commons...
Every doctor have known since the time of Hippocrates, the primary rule every physician must obey is simple: ‘First, do no harm.’ The best surgeons knew when to stand back and not to operate. They had the humility to understand when their surgical skills...
https://german.net/ Duolingo! Great for the full course of learning the German language. -Quizlet Awesome for making flashcards, quizzing your memory, and studying. -http://german.net/exercises/ Helpful for mini exercises in German. -https://www.memrise.com/...
I saw a joke post a few years ago that went something like this: Legal DVD->Insert, watch unskippable copyright warning, watch unskippable advert for a film you will never watch, watch another advert for a film you will not watch, watch series of logos...
What's been missing from most of the scientific and other advice that have been seen, particularly earlier in the pandemic, has been an evaluation of risk in the case of the uncertainties that we faced. For example it wasn't clear whether or not the virus...
Why can't Britain do things more like Germany? - Britain has a very adverserial style of politics and an election system the punishes those that seek consensus or coalition. In Germany consensus and coalition is the name of the game. I think there has...
England & Wales has some of the strongest consumer protection legislation, absolutely no need for warranties. For faults that occur after six months you will need evidence that the defect isn't your own fault; so without a manufacturer's notice of an...
There simply has to be a moratorium on all road building in the UK and we must manage the capacity that we have; if this means road pricing/tolls so be it. The majority of the money raised must go towards public transport. Cities and towns must be reconfigured...
Housing policy in Scotland is basically to remove planning restrictions, allowing developers to build unlimited numbers of ‘executive homes’ in the most profitable (and usually relatively ‘unspoilt’) places. The idea is that this will bring prices down,...
It’s time to celebrate: ‘It’s 24 June, 2025, and Britain is marking its annual Independence Day celebration. As the fireworks stream through the summer sky, still not quite dark, we wonder why it took us so long to leave. The years that followed the 2016...
For the last decade, the Conservative Party have put the interests of themselves and their donors ahead of those of the country, destroying the capacity of public services to like after society by keeping people safe. However, the last year has been something...
The corona virus is raising so many questions about our values, systems and structures. Child poverty was a major issue screaming to be addressed prior to the virus. The virus has forced us to reconsider the value of a whole range of workers previously...