Total Solar eclipse

A total solar eclipse was visible over North America, Canada, and Mexico from 19:07 BST when the world plunged into darkness in the middle of the day. Niagara Falls has been filled dup with tourists on both sides of the US-Canada border, many checking the iconic natural landmark for the first time, while also catching a spectacular total solar eclipse. Ohio has not seen a total eclipse since 1806, only three years after belong a state and will be another 400 Yeats before Ohio sees another total eclipse Some places the total eclipse lasted more than 4 minutes. Continue reading Total Solar eclipse

Beta blockers may not be effective for heart attack patients

Beta blockers are prescribed to heart attack patients regardless they provide any  clear benefits according to a landmark trial. The daily tablets which can even trigger fatigue, nausea,and even sexual dysfuction, are offered to the majority of Heart attack patients. Around 60, 000 people are prescribed beta blockers every year in the UK and many will remain on the pills for life. The trail found that for about 50 per cent of patients, they do not reduce the risk of death or further heart attack. Experts claim that the findings will change the way heart attack patients are treated on … Continue reading Beta blockers may not be effective for heart attack patients

Scoop

You can say “This will run and run” But this is already running and running! Scoop The new Netflix film about Prince Andrew and his association with Jeffrey Epstein and alleged courtesans who served him. I hour 45 mins. Google this saga and you will find the original interview by Emily Maitlis with Prince Andrew and plenty of other fodder to “chew” on. Trust me. Gillian Anderson – Emily Maitlis (Newsnight Presenter) Billie Piper  – Sam McAlister Rufus Sewell – Prince Andrew Keeley Hawes – Amanda Thirsk Colin Wells – Jeffrey Epstein For some,  who think  to sleep or rather … Continue reading Scoop

Caught in the honeytrap of malicious communications

William Wragg, a senior Conservative MP, chairman of a Commons select committee, has admitted his involvement in a honeytrap sexting scandal targeting a minister and fellow MPs, told he handed over the personal phone numbers of colleagues to a man he met on Grindr, a gay dating app. The vice-chairman of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers said that he provided the details after sending intimate pictures of himself to the user. Wragg said he was “scared” that the man ” had compromising things on me”. Those colleagues who included several MPs, members of their staff and a political journalist … Continue reading Caught in the honeytrap of malicious communications

Gold Prices rally, soaring all time high

Gold has another record high above $2,295 per Troy ounce yesterday, extending a rally that has seen it rise 15 per cent since mid-February 24, after interest rates cuts with persistent US inflation and escalating conflict in the Middle East. Investors are betting it will honour its traditional role as a hedge against inflation if price increases persist when interest rates starts to fall. Gold also seen as protection against rising US debt and possible widening of war in the Middle East and Central banks, Indian multi-million wedding market and Chinese customers are buying it in record numbers as Gold … Continue reading Gold Prices rally, soaring all time high

“Rage” inspiring tragedies

Stephen King who earned the title of King of Horror after publishing novels like It, Pet Sematary, Carrie and The Shining, has asked for his latest book to go out of publication because of the controversy it generated. A high school student Charlie Decker, who after an incident that sent his chemistry teacher to the hospital and insulting the principal led to his expulsion, took a pistol from his locker and shot his Algebra teacher while holding his classmates hostage. Over the next two decades several number of shooting incidents took place at high schools across the US. On several … Continue reading “Rage” inspiring tragedies

A SUBTLE AND COMPELLING TAKE ON NATURE.

Annamarie Dzendrowskyj – “Shadows of Perception” 28 March – 21 April 24 The MuseGallery 269 Portobello Road W11 1LRThe natural world is the central subject of the artist’s work and is drawn from imagery fromThe Blue Mountains World Heritage Centre in Australia taken in 2020 a few months afterthe bushfire season. The natural world is cherished and all imagery is about this. TheArtist’s inspiration was based on Junichiro Tanizaki’s “ In Praise of Shadows” – an essaylooking into the interpendence of darkness and light and saying that one cannot existwithout the other. Climate change is also an issue on this … Continue reading A SUBTLE AND COMPELLING TAKE ON NATURE.

Look East to understand first world war

 Nick Lloyd professor of modern warfare at King’s College, London, tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the “unknown war”: the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires. Although much has been written about the fighting in France and Belgium, The Eastern Front was no less bloody. Between 1914 and 1917, huge numbers of people- perhaps as many as 16 million soldiers and two million civilians were killed, wounded or maimed in enormous battles that sometimes range across a front of 100km in length.  Lloyd … Continue reading Look East to understand first world war

The Secret of aging

All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. Coleen Murphy, a leading scholar of aging,  show how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. She explains that the study of model systems, particularly simple invertebrate animals, combined with breakthroughs in genomic methods have allowed scientist to probe into molecular mechanisms of longevity and aging. Understanding the fundamental biological rules that govern aging in model systems provide clues about how we  might slow human aging, which could lead in turn to new therapeutics and treatments for … Continue reading The Secret of aging

You can destroy by cynicism and disillusion better than by bombs

Indian born Fareed Zakaria, who claim to be America’s best-known tutor on world events, quotes from Civilisation, the classic 1960s BBC series narrated by Kenneth Clark, an art historian.“It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.” Kenneth Clark said. Age of Revolutions chronicles ceaseless action and reaction , progress and backlash, that has been endemic to the modern age. Zakaria  dates the birth of the liberal nation state to the 16th-century Netherlands, which is where  his book begins. He ends after … Continue reading You can destroy by cynicism and disillusion better than by bombs