10 strange ways to dieMistrey | 14-6-2011 New research into accidental deaths in Tudor England reveals the strange way people died, writes Sean Coughlan. Oxford University historian, Dr Steven Gunn, has been scouring 16th Century coroners' reports and researching accidental deaths in Tudor England |
Male goats producing "human" milkMistrey | 14-6-2011 Genetic engineers are deliberately breeding transgender goats to see if their milk is similar to that produced by humans. |
HOW TO STEAL LIKE AN ARTISTPooh | 22-4-2011 This is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave yesterday at Broome Community College in Binghamton, New York. It’s a simple list of 10 things I wish I’d heard when I was in college. |
Backstage Rider: Iggy Pop & the StoogesPooh | 22-4-2011 As if you need another reason to love Iggy Pop, the veteran rocker (and his band The Stooges) have the single most entertaining concert rider TSG has ever obtained. The document--all 18 pages of which you'll find here--describes Iggy's requirements in terms of amplifiers, security, lighting, sta... |
If I'd known then what I do now, I'd have wanted him to die in my arms'Mistrey | 6-4-2011 Alexia Pearce adores her 'gorgeous' three-year-old son, yet she is aware that his life – a life blighted by cerebral palsy and chronic lung disease – is unlikely to last long into his teens. In this moving account, she asks: are we always right to save premature babies? |
Margate and Ramsgate children 'have not seen beach'Mistrey | 6-4-2011 Children who have grown up in Kent coastal towns but have never been to the beach are being encouraged to visit the seaside. Pupils from Margate and Ramsgate have regularly told school workers they have never been on the sands before. |
Is the world about to go radiation crazy?agnes | 31-3-2011 The California Department of Health explain the situation thus: "When radioactive material is spread through the atmosphere, it drops to the ground and gets in the environment. When cows consume grass, hay, feed, and water, radioactivity will be processed and become part of the milk we drink." It's ... |
10 Ways Google is taking over the worldgaryb2 | 30-3-2011 Get some Google in your life, if somehow you haven't done already. As the arrival of Google's Nexus One signals another ambitious but potentially lucrative venture for the media giants, in the bigger picture it's just another step by the influential Google brand in its quest to filter into every as... |
Talk about sincereagnes | 30-3-2011 The Sun's apology for an article posted on their site. 'His parents have asked us to make clear he was not turned into a fireball, was not obsessed with the number 23 and didn’t go drinking on that date every month'. |
Homeopathy pills contain no trace of active ingredient.agnes | 30-3-2011 I think some people want to believe in homeopathy. I think many people don't realise the processes involved in homeopathy. Once the pill is on the counter, there is not a molecule of active ingredient to be found. They should be sold as placebo. Check the film on The One Show (see link) from about... |
Beyonce's father will no longer work as her manageragnes | 29-3-2011 I wonder what happened there then. Beyonce will no longer be managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, the singer's publicist has said. |
The 5 Percent Doctrineellalaurence | 28-3-2011 A minister in Gainesville, Fla., has created an international uproar by vowing to burn the Koran on Sept. 11. This is under the theory that the best way to honor Americans who died at the hands of religious extremists is to do something that is both religious and extreme |
Is there a male menopause?cassius | 28-9-2010 Opera singer Ian Storey tells Phil Daoust how his hot flushes and fatigue were symptoms of the 'andropause' |
Portugal drug decriminalisation 'a resounding success': will Britain respond? No.cassius | 28-9-2010 Time magazine reports that Europe’s most liberal drug policy has been a huge success. Not, as you might think, those hippie Dutch, but Portugal, where possession of all drugs for personal use was decriminalised in 2001. |
The 5 Percent Doctrineellalaurence | 9-9-2010 A minister in Gainesville, Fla., has created an international uproar by vowing to burn the Koran on Sept. 11. This is under the theory that the best way to honor Americans who died at the hands of religious extremists is to do something that is both religious and extreme |
Conservatives put Dumb and Dumber on the health select committeecassius | 30-6-2010 Of all the MPs who could have been appointed to the health select committee on Thursday, Conservatives Nadine Dorries and David Tredinnick are perhaps the most controversial choices. One attracted ridicule for claiming that an unborn foetus could punch its way out of the womb, while the other is a s... |
Losing the beauty of an older womanjamietom | 15-6-2010 But finally fury: what is wrong with the strong, still-handsome face of a 51-year-old woman? |
SATC2 What happened to good old Sex?cassius | 7-6-2010 Sex and the City 2 may just be the most radical and challenging film of the year. How odd. |
And yet more SATC2 slating. Good.ellalaurence | 27-5-2010 How bad is SATC 2? In addition to being "insipid," "condescending," and "blatantly anti-Muslim," it made reviewers experience delirious hallucinations about adding Eleanor Roosevelt as the fifth "girl" or killing them all off in a "heart-rending Death of Spock-type scene." |
It's all over for sex-and-shopping feminismellalaurence | 27-5-2010 Girl power is over. The release of the second Sex and the City film, in which four rich Americans analyse their marriages on a boringly opulent girls' holiday to Abu Dhabi, sounds the death-knell for a pernicious strain of bourgeois sex-and-shopping feminism that should have been buried long ago at ... |
SATC2 Top Reviewellalaurence | 27-5-2010 Burkas and Birkins We've been thinking it for two long years. All of us. Gnawing our cheeks at night, clutching at sweaty sheets, our faces hollow and gray, our once-bright eyes dimmed by the pain of too many questions. Sometimes we cry out, en masse, to a faceless god and a cold, indifferent unive... |
Technology linked to happiness, study claimscassius | 20-5-2010 It found that women in developing countries, and people of both sexes with low incomes or poor education, were most influenced emotionally by their access to technology. |
Pizza in Naples 'cooked with wood from coffins'RALPHIE | 18-5-2010 Italian prosecutors believe pizza in the southern city of Naples may be baked in ovens lit with wood from coffins dug up in the local cemetery, according to Italian daily Il Giornale. |
Johann Hari: Welcome to Cameron landjamietom | 5-5-2010 Is wielding the Hammersmith hammer really worth it? Is cutting taxes by a fraction justified if it means abandoning the most desperate people – the homeless, the disabled, the poor? Is that who we want to be? The last time I see her, Debbie Domb tries to move a little in her chair – painfully, s... |
CBeebies exists to serve parents, not their children. And it stultifies us alljamietom | 5-5-2010 TV is bad again. Either the paper has a telepathic picture editor or it had the inside scoop on this week's research revealing not only that Britons are watching more television but also that the development of pre-school children is being hampered by exposure to the medium. |
Europe Wants Total Ban On Smacking Kids In UKcassius | 27-4-2010 Prohibiting all corporal punishment is a legal imperative and I hope the United Kingdom will take that essential step urgently. Says Council of Europe's Maud de Boer-Buquicchio. What do you think? |
Amy Jenkins: Will powerful women please stop saying, 'I'm not a feminist, but...'cassius | 26-4-2010 But then it turns out they don't want to be called feminists either. Of six interviewed this week, only two - Joanne Cash and Kemi Adegoke - said they consider themselves feminists. The other four presumably resort to the well worn disclaimer: "I'm not a feminist, but." Like "I'm not a racist, but",... |
'Sun' censored poll that showed support for Lib Demsjamietom | 23-4-2010 The Liberal Democrats accused the newspaper, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, of suppressing the finding. The paper, which endorsed Labour in the past three elections, declared its support for David Cameron during the Labour Party's annual conference last October. Like other Tory-supporting papers,... |
The forces that have been blocking British democracy are becoming visible in this electionagnes | 23-4-2010 For a moment, the media demonisation of the liberal-left was switched off in favour of equal time and open access – and it revolutionised our politics. If this happened day in, day out, how would our national conversation change? The British media is overwhelmingly owned by right-wing billionaire... |
Nick Clegg's rise could lock Murdoch and the media elite out of UK politicsagnes | 22-4-2010 Make no mistake, if the Liberal Democrats actually won the election- or held the balance of power- it would be the first time in decades that Murdoch was locked out of British politics. In so many ways, a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote against Murdoch and the media elite. David Yelland. |
Heaven: A fool's paradiseagnes | 21-4-2010 In reality, the heaven you think you're headed to – a reunion with your relatives in the light – is a very recent invention, only a little older than Goldman Sachs. Johann Hari. |
South Park celebs fight backagnes | 15-4-2010 For the 200th episode all the celebrities South Park has 'made fun of' get their revenge on South Park. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp9bYLa5gaA |
The South Park Celebs fight back| 15-4-2010 For the 200th episode all the celebrities South Park has 'made fun of' get their revenge on South Park. Â |
Malcolm McLaren is dead!RALPHIE | 9-4-2010 Manager of the Sex Pistols, entrepreneur, conceptualist and a renowned orchestrator of outrage. |
Dear BBC. Women vote too.delfina thinks | 6-4-2010 Why, then, am I already feeling so cheesed off with the 2010 campaign? It started last Monday as I watched the three male wannabe chancellors in their television debate. Then I watched Newsnight. Again, three middle-aged white men and a male presenter talking about the three other chaps. The next ni... |
Top barrister's ex-wife wins £215,000 payout from husband she divorced 25 years agodelfina thinks | 1-4-2010 The former wife of a leading barrister was yesterday awarded a £215,000 payout from her ex-husband a quarter of a century after they divorced. |
Primary school abusersbodenfree | 1-4-2010 An inquiry has been launched into the physical and sexual abuse of a six-year-old schoolgirl by 23 of her classmates. |
Six reasons the world gets more attractive when the sun comes outMagma | 28-3-2010 It's spring. Which means inevitably that wherever you are, someone will be asking jovially what it is about sunny days that means everyone gets more attractive. We're sick of this conversation. So here's why.After careful scientific analysis, we think that fairly simple factors are behind individual... |
A scientific defence of Tiger Woods' adulterysavantista | 26-3-2010 A new book argues that dudes just can't help chasing tail. Give me a break! |
Do I look fat in this?twinsmum | 26-3-2010 As a new website shows, strangers will tell you what close friends won't, writes. For starters? ˜No. Red. Boots.' |
The Suri Cruise effect: How parents spend over £700 a year to keep their children in stylequinnsmum | 24-3-2010 The poll of 1,500 parents by Debenhams found that an average of £357 was spent on clothing per child each season. The figure rose to £427 per child per season for daughters thanks to the availability of 'mini-me' items such as jeggings and blazers for young girls. |
Hooking Up for Sex: Sluts or New Feminists?Magma | 24-3-2010 Today's first base is kissing ... plus fondling this and that. Second base is oral sex. Third base is going all the way. Home plate is learning each other's names." |
School violated gay teen's rightstwinsmum | 24-3-2010 A Mississippi lesbian Tuesday won a judge's backing for her contention that her First Amendment rights were violated when her high school refused to allow her to attend her prom with her girlfriend.But U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson refused to order the Itawamba County School District in Fulto... |
Bride arrested after baring breasts at own wedding partyoldmum | 23-3-2010 Sharon Hancox, 40, spent her first night of marriage in police cells after the row at the champagne reception for her wedding. A court heard Hancox had drunk up to eight pints of lager and champagne at the party after their gay civil ceremony. But the court heard she had a row with club doorman Da... |
He wants a piece of GAGASkippy | 23-3-2010 How much do international celebrities owe the people who discover them? |
Would you vote for a party led by a pregnant woman?berry | 23-3-2010 Yes or No. Click on the URL to vote |
Wife wins $9 million from husband's mistressCookie | 23-3-2010 Cynthia Shackelford's story could have been no different than that of any other aggrieved wife: The North Carolina woman, 60, thought her husband Allan was deeply in love with her. Then came his late nights at the office and suspicious charges on his credit card and cell phone bills. And finally, a... |
Venting on facebook is a bad ideaMagma | 22-3-2010 WHAT is the sound of an awkward silence on Facebook? If you have to ask, then you probably don’t have friends like James Gower and Ashley Andrews, high school sweethearts from Spring, Tex., who are both 22 and engaged to be married this May. |
$30K for gay girl banned from promtwinsmum | 20-3-2010 A lesbian high school student embroiled in a legal flap over her school's prom policy has received a $30,000 scholarship on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. |
Should we welcome President Barbie?Skippy | 25-2-2010 BARBIE, THE iconic doll with a big chest and stiletto heels, is now teamed up with The White House Project, a national organization that hopes to one day see a woman president. It is a confusing ticket. Marie Wilson, founder and president of The White House Project, said she worked with Mattel, Inc.... |
Single and trying to get pregnant at 40oldmum | 25-2-2010 For a long time Sheri envisioned having a baby as part of a traditional family like the one she grew up with in Glencoe, Illinois. But after a lot of dating and serious relationships in her 20s and early 30s, Sheri realized she wasn't going out with men for the right reasons."I was looking at the gu... |
How to raise a feminist kidMagma | 25-2-2010 The folks over at CRAP! (Child Rearing Against Patriarchy) have released a feminist kidzine, Spratz!. It sounds cool, but the thing is: I don't really get it. |
Hollywood gives loads more speaking parts to actors rather than actresses!Cookie | 24-2-2010 OK, we’re not just imagining it. Women may make up 51% of the population, but actresses nabbed only 29.9% of the 4,379 speaking parts in the 100 top-grossing films of 2007, or so says a new study released by University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, whi... |
6 weird treatments for your private bitsoldmum | 4-2-2010 What the hell is vaginal rejuvenation? Who would want their vagina bleached? Here\'s a list of the strangest ways to make your genitals meet the demands of the beauty industry. |
Restore the youthful colour back to your labia! Really!!oldmum | 13-1-2010 Anti-aging mania and marketing: Not just for your face anymore! Now there's My New Pink Button, genital cosmetic colorant. Or, as our tipster calls it: Pussy dye. So, are you a Marilyn, a Bettie, a Ginger or an Audry?See, My New Pink Button comes (HEH) in four shades: Marilyn is the lightest and "go... |
Tragic man has a haunted scrotumSkippy | 13-1-2010 A 45-year-old man was referred for investigation of an undescended right testis by computed tomography (CT). An ultrasound scan showed a normal testis and epididymis on the left side. The right testis was not visualized in the scrotal sac or in the right inguinal region. On CT scanning of the abdome... |
Bare 40% skin to nab a fellaSkippy | 26-11-2009 Women should wear clothes that bare 40 per cent of their flesh to maximise their chances of attracting men, new scientific research indicates. |
Dads cause increase in caesarean numbersCookie | 26-11-2009 It was once imparted to the father over the phone, yet now it\'s men themselves who often tell their exhausted partner the sex of the child she has just delivered. But could men be more of a hindrance than a help in the delivery room? |
Australian PRO-RAPE Facebook groupMagma | 13-11-2009 A group of past and present University of Sydney students set up a 'pro-rape' page in the sports and recreation section on Facebook, describing themselves as 'anti-consent'. The male students, mostly from the elite, all-male St Paul's College, initially ensured the 'Define Statutory' group had a... |
Mothers cause most family rows, finds studysavantista | 13-11-2009 A survey of 3,000 families found that the most common rows are over household chores, children "treating the house like a hotel", and couples taking each other for granted. Fights flare up three times a day, usually lasting for five minutes. Families spend 91 hours a year arguing, with mothers t... |
Chewing gum may help you lose weightSkippy | 12-11-2009 the handful of gum studies so far suggest that chewing gum may help reduce cravings, particularly for sweet snacks, and spur people to cut their daily intake by about 50 calories. The latest study, presented at the annual scientific meeting of the Obesity Society in late October, showed that gum... |
Stop it mum, you're embarrassing me!oldmum | 12-11-2009 "Junior", unlike his scary father, the late John ("Dapper Don") Gotti, is a small, quiet, bespectacled man who assiduously attends his childre's Parent Teacher Association. So when his mother, the expensively dressed Victoria Gotti, went screaming mad in court, unleashing "a profanity-laced rant"... |
DETOX HOOEYCookie | 12-11-2009 If I could ban any single word from discussions about food and drink, the word would be 'detox.' Outside its medical definition the whole concept of 'detoxing' is spurious. The body clears itself of an excess of rich foods and / or the after-effects of too much alcohol on its own, aided by the m... |
Reserving the right to smugly judge parentsberry | 4-11-2009 Last week, Pamela Root and her 2-year-old son were booted off a Southwest Airlines flight because the boy wouldn\'t stop shouting, \"Go, plane, go!\" and \"I want Daddy!\" I\'m really tempted to say nothing more on the subject, since that sentence alone is plenty to spark a spirited argument about w... |
Anti-wrinkle braagnes | 4-11-2009 As if we didn't have enough to worry about; now it's the verticle wrinkles between the boobs. Wear this sexy little number in bed. |
BRAZILIAN FOR PRET CHICKEN!agnes | 3-11-2009 So Pret gets its chicken from Brazil. How terrible. Though it\'s ok to get beef from Argentina. |
Facebook thwarts teen suicide bidSkippy | 3-11-2009 A teen who posted a Facebook suicide note was saved after a frantic international race-against-time rescue. The Oxford schoolboy, 16, revealed his plans to a female friend in America on the social networking site. She had no idea where he lived. |
World of cotton-wool kidsCookie | 2-11-2009 Pint-sized crash helmets, baby- wipe warmers, baby GPS units, temporary tattoos with mum\'s mobile number and food allergy warnings ... welcome to the world of the cotton-wool kids. A multimillion-dollar industry in child-safety products is threatening the rough and tumble that was considered a ... |
Most unproductive day| 27-10-2009 Today will be the most unproductive day of the year, according to a survey, as workers' morale is hit by the darker evenings brought on by the clock change. |
B&Q to give DIY lessons in schoolMaggy | 27-10-2009 Schoolchildren are to learn basic DIY under the guidance of B&Q staff amid concerns that the skills are dying out - model for all subjects or shameless advertising? |
Why some men can't control arousaloldmum | 22-10-2009 Is sex a state of mind? A recent study from the University of British Columbia finds that while most men can regulate their physical and mental sexual arousal to some degree, the men most able to do so are able to control their other emotions as well. |
Overprotective mum accused of child abusetwinsmum | 22-10-2009 In the idealized picture of the American heartland, baseball, mom and apple pie feature prominently. The Italian version? Soccer, spaghetti and, yes, la mamma. But in recent years, the folkloric image of the doting Italian mother has been joined in the national consciousness by something a tad less ... |
Man arrested for being naked in own kitchenCookie | 22-10-2009 Springfield, Virginia resident Eric Williamson was arrested and charged with indecent exposure yesterday for failing to put on any clothes after getting up at 5:30 am to make some coffee. A woman and her 7-year-old daughter had cut across Williamson\'s front yard and saw him through his kitchen wind... |
Condom rivals the pillSkippy | 22-10-2009 A British government survey found that among women under 50, the number of condom users has caught up to the number of women taking the pill. Half of those who use condoms prefer them because they offer STD protection |
Is 9 too young to go to a rock concert alone?big | 22-10-2009 Last Tuesday, a 28-year-old mom was cited for child neglect for dropping off her 9-year-old daughter at a Miley Cyrus concert at the Qwest Center in Omaha.According to the Omaha World-Herald, a few parents sitting near the 9-year-old girl noticed she was alone and notified authorities. Two off-duty ... |
Public sobfests spoil crying foreversavantista | 19-10-2009 "Public outpourings of grief do not reflect actual emotional pain," Hodson says, "What is irritating is lachrymosity - shedding tears, but not crying. If you cry not because of the effect of something but because you deem yourself affected, you do a disservice to yourself and mislead others." This a... |
Discount for cyclists at Berlin Brothelberry | 19-10-2009 A Berlin brothel is claiming the title of Germany's first "green\ sex establishment after offering clients eco-discounts if they can prove they arrived by bicycle or public transport.The concept has been dreamed up by the Maison d'Envie (House of Desire) brothel in the city's fashionable Prenzlauer ... |
Modern male is soft slug with a beer bellyberry | 19-10-2009 It's official. Modern man is a wimp. A new book by an Australian anthropologist called Peter McAllister entitled Manthropology: The Science Of The Inadequate Modern Male has come to the conclusion that men are the worst they have ever been "the sorriest cohort of masculine Homo sapiens to ever walk ... |
Dear Daughter's 'Girls Only' Cleaning TrolleyMagma | 16-10-2009 There are a lot of pretty ridiculous kids toys out there, and we\'ve taken on the sexism they invoke before. The My Cleaning Trolley is an amazing eleven piece cart to push around with all the cleaning supplies you could ever need! I'm all for teaching kids about cleaning--even making it fun. B... |
Louboutin says Barbie has canklesagnes | 16-10-2009 Three new Barbie dolls being designed by French shoe designer Christian Louboutin to celebrate the doll's 50th anniversary will have slimmer legs and ankles after he decided they were "too fat". |
Egyptians want to ban fake hymenberry | 13-10-2009 Conservative Egyptian lawmakers have called for a ban on imports of a Chinese-made kit meant to help women fake their virginity and one scholar has even called for the \"exile\" of anyone who imports or uses it. The Artificial Virginity Hymen kit, distributed by the Chinese company Gigimo, costs ab... |
Marge Simpson Makes Cover of Playboysavantista | 13-10-2009 \"D\'oh!\" doesn\'t even start to cover it. Marge Simpson -- the blue beehived matriarch of America\'s most loved dysfunctional family - is Playboy magazine\'s November cover, the magazine said on Friday. |
Same-sex sexual harrassmentsavantista | 13-10-2009 The new harrassment! A female lawyer in the United States is suing her former employer in what\'s hardly your typical case of alleged sexual harassment. The lawyer, Jennifer Braude, claims the firm didn\'t act quickly enough to protect her against her boss, who, according to court papers, said s... |
Is the Pill in control of your crush?savantista | 8-10-2009 Birth control pills, according to a review of the literature published today in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, may alter the menstrual cycle in such a way that both women and men are affected in their appetites for the opposite sex. |
Women's low genital self-esteemberry | 5-10-2009 Apparently low genital self-esteem is rife amongst women: "Individuals may adopt negative attitudes toward women's genitals as a result of cultural-level scripts that suggest that women\'s genitals are unclean or dirty," writes Dr. Herbenick, who is also associate director of Indiana's University'... |
Alain de Botton on success and failurePooh | 1-10-2009 Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work. |
New Black Barbie from the ghettoMagma | 1-10-2009 "Not all black people like hip hop," said Barbara Mootoo, 15, of Manhattan, looking at Kara's silver rope chain necklace. "They gave her a chain like a 50Cent video." Tyaine Danclaire, 15, of the Bronx, liked Trichelle's straight, long hair because it looked like "a weave," but she thought the idea ... |
Polanski's victim statusberry | 1-10-2009 The Global Committee to Defend Roman Polanski is shocked and appalled by the arrest of their talented friend in Switzerland over the weekend. You know what is actually horrifying? Raping a child. And then having all your friends rally to your defense because you\'re such an awesome director and the... |
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