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‘You’ve got to see this girl!’ Tanita Tikaram on making Twist in My Sobriety
‘People tell me it helped them with their rehab. I have to explain: Sorry, it’s not about alcohol – I was just a kid singing about injustice’ I wrote the lyrics on the floor of my bedroom in Basingstoke when I was 16 or 17, as a way of decompressing from studying for my A-levels.…
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Sraëka Lillian’s one-a-week RPG “sketches” are a lovely series of experiments with hoary old conventions from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest
There’s a running joke in the world of THEA-TAH that Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play made up entirely of quotations. I often get the same feeling when I play a fantasy RPG, and especially a fantasy RPG created with toolkits such as EasyRPG or RPG Maker that come with their own freely reusable assets, resulting…
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Robot learns to dismantle broken machines
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology researchers built a robotic disassembly system that adapts when screws get stuck or parts go missing in old machines.
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Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants
McDonald’s, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials
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There’s a New Link Between Gut Health and Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers found that a metabolite produced by gut bacteria can weaken the barrier that protects the brain and promote changes associated with the cognitive disease.
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A Rimbaud review – legendary poet’s unlikely transformation into entrepreneur is as odd as ever
Australian actor Blake Draper delivers a committed one-man performance tracking the writer as he morphs from enfant terrible to merchant US experimentalist Patrick Wang here curates an intriguing if very austere experience, a theatrical-style one-man show about the eventful life of the poet Arthur Rimbaud, presented as a microbudget epic of nearly three hours, an…
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Octavia Spencer “Felt It Was Incumbent On Me As A Citizen Of The World” To Make ‘Lost Women Of Alaska’ – Contenders TV Nominees Studio
Octavia Spencer has been following true crime stories since she was just 11 years old. Speaking at Deadline’s Contenders: The Nominees Studio, Spencer said, “I think there are a lot of people who are very new to the true crime genre. I’m not, I’ve been studying it. I read a horrible story, a true crime…
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Your waistline could reveal a hidden heart risk your BMI misses, major study finds
Visceral fat around abdominal organs drives inflammation, insulin resistance, and artery damage in ways BMI alone cannot detect, a dietitian says.
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1 in 6 adults plagued by loneliness as researchers reveal lasting impact of COVID pandemic
An Imperial College London study of over 135,000 adults found nearly one in six people reported feeling lonely often, surprising researchers. COVID made things worse, the study noted.