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Addictive focus on the wrong things for too long

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Journalist Chris Hayes explains why attention and experience which are essential components of being human are under threat. The speed, scale and scope of technological innovation in that past two or three decades mean that the quality of our daily life is being altered – and not for the better, as we are all caught up in it. The utopian early days of internet has given way to fear and loathing, and yet we cannot tear ourselves away from our screens. Even people who work in Silicon Valley insist that their children real actual books and play board games with … Continue reading Addictive focus on the wrong things for too long

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Boom Test flight: New Concorde prototype breaks the sound barrier

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Boom, US company’s prototype aircraft XB-1, has broken the sound barrier as the supersonic-test flight breaks the sound barrier. The test opens the way first supersonic passenger jet since Concorde was retired in 2003. During the test the aircraft reached an altitude of 34, 000feet before accelerating to Mach 1.1 speed  (844mph) – 10 per cent faster than the speed of sound (744mph). Continue reading Boom Test flight: New Concorde prototype breaks the sound barrier

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Transformation from a programming prodigy to budding tech mogul

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Bill Gates’s trilogy of memoirs, including his first two decades of his life, from 1955 to the founding of Microsoft and its agreement to supply a version of the basic programming language to Apple Computer in 1977. Once a snotty brat whom everyone loved to hate, now grown up into a beloved elder statesman. Gates Foundation, focuses on unsexy but critical technologies such as malaria nets, “effective altruism”.  His early childhood in the suburbs of Seattle with a lawyer father and a schoolteacher mother. He was fascinated by his grandmother’s skill at card games around the family dining table. Eight-year-old Gates … Continue reading Transformation from a programming prodigy to budding tech mogul

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Behind every mistake there is a great invention

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Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, head of family owned Taittinger Champagne, made a comment in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper by saying “ I love England, It’s a big market for bubbles. They love Champagne. They created Champagne because of a mistake. Benedictine monks were supplying with still wines from Champagne, red and white wine. The English left these inexpensive still white wines on the London docks and the wines got cold so they started undergoing a second fermentation causing them to become carbonated accidently. Like all great mistakes, it led a to great invention”.  As the English have a little crazy … Continue reading Behind every mistake there is a great invention

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How to Manage your Thyroid?

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The function of the thyroid is to regulate all the processes of energy release within individual cells and in the body as a whole, as metabolism is the rate at which we produce and use energy. The release of energy from life process in its simplest term is the combination of oxygen from the air we breathe, with hydrocarbons from our food. These are molecules made up of chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Sugar and the carbohydrates we eat are turned into the sugar glucose, as well fats and proteins can also be turned into glucose when required. Individual … Continue reading How to Manage your Thyroid?

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Is Big Apple, a place to find and remake yourselves 

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A young woman from India feels the pull from Lady Liberty’s lifted torch in New York Harbour and crosses the globe to make a new life, although she knows the path won’t be straightforward but also that the Big Apple is the place to support and nurture her dreams. Kay Sohini, raised in the suburbs of Kolkata and given an English education, reading Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion and Alison Bechdel and dreamt always of New York. When she finally moved to the city, leaving behind an abusive relationship. Sohini refuses to look away from the city’s flaws, from the damage … Continue reading Is Big Apple, a place to find and remake yourselves 

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Diagnosis of Xi Jinping, Putin and Trump – warns of a second Weimar-like era 

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In Waste Land, geopolitics veteran commentator, Robert Kaplan’s wide-angled vision of our chaotic, globalised world, where present crises resonate with past tyrannies, and assess the outlook for the 21st century, and reveals the society is  a hair’s breath away from the abyss. Donald Trump is taking office amid mini Trumps elsewhere, as steely autocrats steer Russia and China. We are entering a new era of global cataclysm, a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, and the end of empire. Kaplan explains incisively how we got here and where we are going. His trademark sweep of history, … Continue reading Diagnosis of Xi Jinping, Putin and Trump – warns of a second Weimar-like era 

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Emilia Pérez takes 13 Oscar Nominations

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Only one of the 10 films nominated for best picture was directed by a woman- Coralie Fargeat’s controversial horror  The Substance, and Fargeat was also the only female screenwriter with solo credit across the 10 scripts in contention. Brady Corbet’s three-and-half hour epic, The Brutalist, about a Hungarian Holocaust survivor of second world war played by Adrien Brody coming to post war America to be an architect, took 10 nominations, as did Wicked, the hit adaptation of the Broadway show. James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, came away with eight nominations, as did Edward Berger’s papal thriller Conclave, starring … Continue reading Emilia Pérez takes 13 Oscar Nominations

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Revelatory biography of a surprising and complex man

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Dive into the pages and Celebrate one of the REAL stars of the USA! There are 24 chapters in four parts in this very readable book.  The book contains many black and white illustrations and photographs showing Redford as a star with other actors, pictures of his family, his youth  and some of his personally executed artworks. Redford originally studied Art at higher education level and then travelled Europe where he lived on a shoestring taking in the galleries and the beauty of the landscape and architecture.  When he returned to the USA he worked as a set designer and decorator  for films.  While he … Continue reading Revelatory biography of a surprising and complex man

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Stay Productive, motivated, and Happy

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How many times you have set New Year resolutions only to break them within days. People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. Renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions, doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone-call. He urges to transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now, by calling them atomic habits. Clears reveals how these minuscule changes can grow into such life-altering outcomes. … Continue reading Stay Productive, motivated, and Happy