We found 3 types of food wasters, which one are you?

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We found 3 types of food wasters, which one are you?     Each year, Australian households discard about 2.5 million tonnes of food. Most (73%) of this food waste ends up in landfill.This is costly and contributes to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, because food waste rotting in landfill produces methane. So reducing household food waste and diverting it from landfill saves money, improves food security and benefits the environment. Continued here

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Two Planets Collided, Then Eclipsed Their Host Star for 500 Days     The universe is often portrayed as a vast stretch of emptiness, but in reality, it’s filled with unfathomable explosions, mind-bending gravitational anomalies, and an untold number of cataclysmic collisions. Case in point: A team of astrophysicists at the Netherlands’ Leiden Observatory recently stumbled upon a particularly gigantic smash-up — one so big that when a giant, icy, would-be planet careened into another planetary neighbor, it produced enough haze to eclipse its parent star for 500 days. Astronomer Matthew Kenworthy, an associate professor of astronomy at the Leiden Observatory, stumbled across this stunning impact while searching for stellar rings and newly formed exoplanets. Glimpsing the star ASASSN-21qj some 1,800 light years away, Kenworthy noticed that it was reminiscent of another star that dimmed during the transit of a planet filled with a disk of potentially moon-forming material. But in sharp contrast with its stellar predecessor, this cloud was big and slow, and that’s when Kenworthy started investigating further. Continued here

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Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here's how they get away with collecting and sharing your data     They also found terms that allowed this information to be passed on to third parties. Cars were “the official worst category of products for privacy” they had ever reviewed, they concluded.Australia’s privacy laws aren’t up to the task of protecting the vast amount of personal information collected and shared by car companies. And since our privacy laws don’t demand the specific disclosures required by some US states, we have much less information about what car companies are doing with our data. Continued here

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Hip-hop tracks that changed the world     As the world reflects on the cultural significance of hip-hop in the year of its 50th anniversary, the power of its origins are more significant than ever. Chuck D has famously stated that "rap is black America's CNN". Despite being subjected to centuries of injustice – including slavery, segregation and systemic racism – black people still found the courage to not just tell their story – but to confront inequality head on. Even though the genre has become synonymous with ferocity and resilience, its start was light-hearted. While DJing a sibling's birthday party in New York City in August 1973, DJ Kool Herc made the ingenious decision to extend instrumental breaks from other songs, including James Brown's Give It Up or Turnit a Loose. While the crowd breakdanced, the DJ and his friends got on the mic over various beats and engaged in stage banter that would ultimately evolve into cadenced rhymes.  Continued here

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Hamas: what you need to know about the group that attacked Israel     The group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, crossing into the country from Gaza killing hundreds of civilians and taking dozens of hostages. Military confrontations between Hamas and Israel are not unusual. Hamas has fought several wars with Israel since 2007 and has carried out thousands of deadly terrorist attacks. Continued here

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Astronomers have learned lots about the universe - but how do they study astronomical objects too distant to visit?     NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, dropping off its sample of dust and pebbles gathered from the surface of near-Earth asteroid Bennu.Analysis of this sample will help scientists understand how the solar system formed and from what sorts of materials. Scientists will begin their analysis in the same facility that analyzed rocks and dust from the Apollo lunar landings. Continued here

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How Chicana women artists have often used the figure of the Virgin of Guadalupe for political messages     In 1975, Chicano artist Amado M. Peña depicted police brutality by showing the bloodied head of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez, whom Dallas police had shot for allegedly stealing $8from a vending machine. The painting “Aquellos que han muerto,” translated as “Those who have died,” further listed the names of other Chicano youth killed by police. Across the background, Peña included rows of skulls – a gesture that art historian E. Carmen Ramos explains “conjures death and connects with skull imagery frequently used in Mesoamerican religious practices and modern Mexican art.” Continued here

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Vaccines against COVID-19, the seasonal flu and RSV are our best chance of preventing a winter surge     As cold and flu season ramps up, health care experts are once again on high alert for the possibility of a tripledemic, or a surge brought on by the respiratory viruses that cause COVID-19, the flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. The good news is that this year, health officials have more tools at their disposal to combat them.Americans ages 6 months and older are eligible to receive the newest COVID-19 vaccine and the annual flu vaccine. In addition, this year the Food and Drug Administration approved the first vaccine against RSV for use in late pregnancy and adults 60 years of age and older. Continued here

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Climate change could lead to food-related civil unrest in UK within 50 years, say experts     The emptying of supermarket shelves during the COVID pandemic demonstrated the chaos that disruption to the UK’s food supply can provoke. Could this type of disruption have a different cause in the future? And what might the impact on society be?These are the questions we sought to answer in our new study, which involved surveying 58 leading UK food experts spanning academia, policy, charitable organisations and business. Continued here

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A tooth that rewrites history? The discovery challenging what we knew about Neanderthals - podcast     Archéologue, penseur et chercheur au CNRS, Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier For generations, Neanderthals have been a source of fascination for scientists. This species of ancient hominim inhabited the world for around 500,000 years until they suddenly disappeared around 40,000 years ago. Today, the cause of their extinction remains a mystery. Continued here

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Estonia-Finland pipeline explosion: what's the evidence that the damage was deliberate?     Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö, has alluded to “outside activity” and said sabotage is likely to be the cause of damage to an important gas pipeline that links it to Estonia.The pipeline suffered a leak in Finnish waters on October 8, caused by an explosion, and has subsequently been shut down. A nearby telecommunications connection in Estonian waters was also damaged. It is so far unclear whether this was caused by the same or additional explosions. Continued here

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If the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did?     British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Economics, University of Oxford One argument put forward in defence of fossil fuels is that they were a historical necessity, because there was no other viable substitute for much of the 20th century. We owe fossil fuels a debt of gratitude, the argument goes, because they supercharged our development. But what if I told you there was a viable alternative, and that it may have been sabotaged by fossil fuel interests from its very inception? Continued here

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Starlink satellites are 'leaking' signals that interfere with our most sensitive radio telescopes     When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite pass overhead in the night sky was a rare event. Now it is commonplace: sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them.Thousands of satellites have been launched into Earth orbit over the past decade or so, with tens of thousands more planned in coming years. Many of these will be in “mega-constellations” such as Starlink, which aim to cover the entire globe. Continued here

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Nasa's Psyche mission is set for launch - here's how it could unveil the interior secrets of planets     It’s unlikely to be a bad omen, but Nasa’s mission Psyche is currently due to launch on Friday 13 October. Lifting off at 10.19 EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, it faces a perilous journey and isn’t scheduled for arrival at its namesake asteroid, 16 Pscyhe, until 2029. Asteroid 16 Psyche (meaning “soul” in Greek) was discovered in 1852 and is named after an ancient Greek princess who married Eros (the namesake of another asteroid). It orbits the Sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, at approximately three times the distance from the Sun as Earth. It is a massive M-type asteroid (M stands for “metal-rich”), over 230km across. Continued here

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Superhero Fans Owe a Huge Debt to This Unsung TV Director     Rachel Talalay can tell you exactly where she was when Hollywood writers went on strike back in 2007: gearing up to direct an episode of a new show based on beloved proto-superhero Flash Gordon.“I don't remember anything about the show because the writers went on strike on my first day of prep,” Talalay tells Inverse. “Basically, they handed me a completely unfinished script.” Continued here

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The 'male menopause' - what you need to know     East Midlands Ambulance Service is reportedly giving men up to a year of paid leave for “andropause related issues”, which some are calling the “male menopause”.This move has angered some commentators who question whether there really is such a thing as the male menopause or “manopause”. Continued here

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"Anatomy of a Fall" Is Prestige Cinema as Airport Novel     The more I consider "Anatomy of a Fall," the new French courtroom drama by Justine Triet that opens Friday, the more I love "France." Not France the country (though it is something of a home away from home) but "France" the movie, Bruno Dumont's frenetic 2021 satire about a TV journalist whose ambitious and intrepid reports, with their standardized format and their unchallenged attitudes, have become sensations of the mediascape. "Anatomy of a Fall" is something of a counterpart to those reports but in the cinematic realm; it's both a product and an echo of high-minded consensus. It's a movie of manifest ambition, suggested by the literary milieu in which it's set and the themes that come with it, but one that realizes it's ambition with prefabricated attitudes and a numbingly conventional form that only reinforces them. It's prestige cinema.The German actress Sandra Hüller stars as Sandra Voyter, a German writer whose husband, Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis), falls to his death from the third-floor balcony of their isolated chalet. Sandra is accused of killing him, and her effort to clear her name at trial is complicated by the fact that the main witness to the couple's life is their eleven-year-old son, Daniel (Milo Machado Graner), who is blind. On the day of Samuel's death, Sandra is interviewed at home by a graduate student named Zoé (Camille Rutherford)—and, during the interview, Samuel blasts hip-hop (an instrumental version of 50 Cent's "P.I.M.P.") from his work room, upstairs, at ear-splitting volume, forcing the women to put an end to their talk. A short time later, Daniel returns from a walk with his dog, Snoop, and finds Samuel's body in the snow. The prosecution begins to build its case around inconsistencies in Sandra's account of the day, peculiarities in the forensic report on Samuel's fatal injuries, and apparent discord in the couple's relationship. Continued here

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2023's Most Imaginative Sci-Fi Show is a Breathtaking Thrill Ride     Fiery debris rains down from the sky, plummeting in a cloud of smoke and spores onto a strange alien planet filled with lush, fungi-like vegetation and all manner of phantasmagoria. It’s striking imagery — so striking that the new Max animated sci-fi series Scavengers Reign uses it as its opening credits every episode. It’s no wonder the show’s intriguing teaser trailer leans heavily on the show’s visuals, opting for no dialogue and a simple classical score to lure curious viewers into its beautiful, bizarre world. But just like the strange planet and its even stranger lifeforms, there’s more lurking beneath the surface of the breathtaking and bleak Scavengers Reign.Scavengers Reign is a stunning new 12-episode animated series from Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner, who spun the series off from their acclaimed 2016 sci-fi short, Scavengers. The original eight-minute short started out as a challenge: what if they could bring the surreal sci-fi art of Moebius to life? $14,000 and a simple, comic book-style animatic later, Bennett and Huettner had done something more: an evocative and thoroughly transporting piece of art. Scavengers Reign manages to take the ambitions of the original short and transform it into a rich, darkly thrilling series that shows the immense capabilities of 2D animation — and proves original sci-fi storytelling is still alive and kicking. Continued here

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The Luxury Office Development That Became a Horrific Migrant Shelter     Four years ago, the New York City commercial real-estate firm RXR unveiled “an exciting new opportunity in Brooklyn.” The Hall, as RXR named the development, comprised ten buildings and more than six hundred thousand square feet of prime office space, near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Promotional artist renderings depicted workers dressed in business casual busy in open-plan offices. “THE HALL’S unique workplace campus will activate one of Brooklyn’s most dynamic and authentic communities of makers, creatives, tech-visionaries, artists, architects, foodies and change agents,” RXR wrote.The pandemic dashed that vision. Makers and change agents worked from home. Commercial real-estate prices in New York City cratered. For three years, the Hall sat mostly empty, and became one of the least promising properties in RXR’s sagging portfolio. Company executives began having conversations with city officials about the possibility of rezoning the Hall as a part-residential, mixed-use building—a messy, expensive, political process. Continued here

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The Edith Hamilton Way     This year’s literary pilgrimage was to Hadlyme Cove Cemetery, in Connecticut, where Edith Hamilton is buried, along with her sister Alice Hamilton, who would have been the more famous of the sisters—she began her career as a professor of pathology at Northwestern University and was the first woman on the faculty of Harvard University—if Edith’s books on Greek and Roman mythology, written after she retired from teaching, had not been a publishing phenomenon.There were four Hamilton sisters. They grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and were industrious and cosmopolitan, pursuing higher education at institutions around the world. When Alice was in her late forties, she bought a house on the Connecticut River, overlooking the seasonal ferry between Hadlyme and Chester, so that the family would always have a place to gather. Edith moved around—from Baltimore to New York to Maine to Washington, D.C.—with her partner, Doris Fielding Reid. The other sisters, Margaret and Norah, are also buried at Hadlyme Cove, along with their mother, Gertrude Pond Hamilton. Both Margaret’s lifetime partner, Clara Landsberg, and Reid are buried there as well. The women’s headstones, chiselled from the traditional flinty-looking local stone, are arrayed in a long, dignified arc. Edith’s is the only one that looks to have been recently cleaned. Continued here

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Gaza depends on UN and other global aid groups for food, medicine and basic services - Israel-Hamas war means nothing is getting in     Topher L. McDougal has worked as a consultant for the World Bank on multiple occasions, one of which involved emergency housing assistance strategies in the Gaza Strip following the 2014 Gaza War. International aid groups are warning that they cannot deliver food and other basic services to people in the Gaza Strip and that a “dire” humanitarian crisis is set to worsen. Continued here

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The Man Who Would Be Britain's Next Prime Minister     As much of the world's attention was focussed on Israel and Gaza this week, the man who is likely to be Britain's next Prime Minister was giving a speech at the annual conference of the Labour Party, which may have been the last before a general election. Keir Starmer is the sixty-one-year-old Leader of the Opposition, a post he has held since 2020. After a protester ran onstage and showered him with glitter, Starmer calmly dusted himself off, removed his jacket, and promised to lead "a decade of national renewal" in a country that, in recent years, has been through a lot: Brexit and its aftermath, the COVID-19 pandemic, a recession, stubbornly high inflation, falling living standards, and the calamitous premierships of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.A recent poll average showed Labour leading the Conservatives, who have been the primary governing party in Britain since 2010, by seventeen points. Under the British system, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak can call an election for any date between now and January, 2025, and commentators are flagging next May or October as likely options. The main theme of Starmer's speech was that Labour, after thirteen years out of power, is ready to take charge and has workable plans to get the country going. New transport links, new homes, new towns, new green-energy projects, a modernized, more efficient National Health Service—Starmer said that a Labour government would build all of these things. He didn't go so far as to adopt Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" slogan from 2020, but he did pledge to "unleash the 'big build.' " In fact, he used the words "build" or "built" nineteen times. Continued here

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Intelligence failure or not, the Israeli military was unprepared to respond to Hamas' surprise attack     Founding Director, Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy West Point As the Israeli army has stepped up its counteroffensive into the Gaza Strip, questions remain on how the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas was able to use bulldozers, hang gliders and motorbikes to conduct the largest attack in 50 years against the most powerful military in the Middle East. Continued here

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The 10 Best Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Mods You Need to Install First     Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the best video game comeback stories this side of A Realm Reborn. What launched as a nigh unplayable mess better suited for making YouTube bug compilations than actually playing has had a major critical revival thanks to a series of patches and the recent Phantom Liberty DLC.Of course, well before Cyberpunk 2077 2.0, modders were hard at work shaping the game into something more worth playing. That 2.0 update also broke mod compatibility, however, and some have yet to come back online. Continued here

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George Santos Says If G.O.P. Lets Him Stay in Congress He Will Stop Using Their Credit Cards     WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Rep. George Santos has promised his fellow House Republicans that, if they allow him to remain in Congress, he will stop using their credit cards.“I can understand why you’d be pretty honked off at me for putting patio furniture and duvet covers and whatnot on your cards,” Santos, who acknowledged using more than two hundred of his colleagues’ credit cards, said. “But now’s the time to put this whole ugly episode behind us—for the good of the country.” Continued here

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The Chaos Party on the Hill Keeps On Chaos-ing     What a mess. On Wednesday, nine days after Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the House Speakership—for little apparent reason—Republicans were scheduled to gather in a closed-door meeting to elect a new one. Going into the session, Thomas Massie, an archconservative congressman from Kentucky, put the chances of Republicans settling the matter that day at two per cent. That turned out to be overly optimistic. A majority of House Republicans did in fact select a choice to replace the ill-fated McCarthy: his former deputy and longtime internal rival, Steve Scalise, of Louisiana. But ninety-nine Republicans voted for Scalise’s opponent, the Donald Trump-endorsed Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, and enough of them refused to get on board with Scalise after Jordan’s loss that, more than a day later, Scalise still had not locked up the requisite two hundred and seventeen votes to secure the Speakership. Member after member emerged from a conference meeting on Thursday fuming—and forced to admit that the Party was at an impasse. “Eight traitors” have “paralyzed” the House, Mike Rogers, of Alabama, a Scalise ally, told reporters. His gloomy prognosis was that no one might ever emerge with enough votes to win.This is a Republican civil war that is hard to explain beyond the simple fact that the G.O.P.’s majority in the House is so narrow it requires near-unanimity to govern—a level of unity that Republicans simply do not have. It’s not an ideological fight: Scalise and Jordan are equally far right. The gang of eight rebels who brought down McCarthy, led by the Florida Republican Matt Gaetz, are themselves split over whom to vote for in his place. As of midday on Thursday, it appeared that a dozen or more Republicans, along with the Party’s ostensible leader, Trump, remained firmly against Scalise. The bottom line is that, even after more than a week of the House of Representatives being unable to conduct any business because it is literally leaderless, the new Republican candidate for Speaker had even more Republicans publicly opposing him than the old Republican candidate for Speaker, who was so weak he got thrown out of the job. Perhaps it was no surprise, then, that by Thursday evening, Scalise abruptly dropped out of the race. What would happen next was anyone’s guess. The chaos party, it appears, is going to keep on chaos-ing for a while. Continued here

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Who Is Verna in 'Fall of the House of Usher'? Carla Gugino's Mysterious villain, Explained.     The Fall of the House of Usher is about a family that secured its own downfall — but the Ushers definitely had a little outside help. The series begins with the end (the demise of the entire family) and the 10-episode Netflix original then proceeds to detail that fall, of child by child and heir by heir. But in the last episode of House of Usher, we learn something huge about family patriarch Roderick Usher’s life that not only explains why an entire generation is doomed, but also solves the biggest mystery of the show: who exactly is Carla Gugino playing, and what does she have to do with the fall of the Ushers? Here’s everything you need to know. Continued here

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50 years ago when the Middle East was at war, oil prices skyrocketed. But it probably won't happen this time.     Global oil prices jumped after Israel declared war on Hamas in response to its unexpected attack on Israel on Saturday, the eve of the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Back then, between late 1973 and early 1974, the world oil price almost quadrupled after the United States offered financial support to Israel in the Arab–Israeli War. The Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries cut off oil exports to nations including the US, the United Kingdom, Canada and Japan. Continued here

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Skin cancer: more people die from types that aren't melanoma - surprise new finding     If you mention skin cancer, most people think of melanoma – the deadliest skin cancer. The other ones are pretty benign, right?Not so. Worldwide, more people are now dying of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) than melanoma, a new study has found. Continued here

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10 Years Ago, Pok     October 12, 2013 marked a number of firsts for the Pokémon franchise. On that date, the Pokémon Company released its first pair of main series games released on the Nintendo 3DS. These were the first games in the series to receive a simultaneous worldwide release after over a decade of staggered launches. They were also the first main series games to feature full 3D animation, a change that would not just overhaul Pokémon’s aesthetics but how the brand presented itself as a whole. Ten years after Pokémon X and Y’s release, that change is still ongoing.X and Y weren’t the first 3D Pokémon games ever. Before that, there was Pokémon Snap and Pokémon Stadium on the Nintendo 64, while the GameCube offered Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. But to finally apply this to the structure of the mainline titles — the games based around battling gym leaders, knocking off a villainous team, and catching ‘em all that turned Pokémon into an international sensation — felt like a massive leap. After years of resistance, Pokémon was entering the graphics arms race that consumed its industry. Continued here

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Steam Just Revealed a Brilliant New Spin on the Tower Defense Game     Tower defense is about as thoroughly explored as a game genre can be. After countless browser and mobile games built on its foundations, it might seem like there’s little room for a tower defense game to be truly innovative. But as one of the standout demos of this year’s Steam Next Fest shows, even the most well-worn paths can have some surprises on them.The updated demo for Cataclismo, which has appeared at Steam Next Fest before, strikes a perfect balance between tower defense and real-time strategy, with some fascinating building mechanics on top of it all. In Cataclismo, you follow the magical Lady Iris as she searches for a sanctuary from the shambling horde of monsters known as Horrors and a deadly mist that hangs over the land. Continued here

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Inequality: troubling trends and why economic growth in Africa is key to reducing global disparities     Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Continued here

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Can coffee help you avoid weight gain? Here's what the science says     Coffee is well recognised as having a positive impact on long-term health. Drinking the equivalent of three to four cups of instant coffee a day reduces the risk of many health conditions including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers.Most people gain small amounts of weight each year as they age. But can coffee help prevent this gradual weight gain? Continued here

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'She is cared for and feels that she belongs': what parents think of special schools     The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has shared its final report. In this series, we unpack what the commission’s 222 recommendations could mean for a more inclusive Australia.On Wednesday, the chair of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), Kurt Fearnley, spoke passionately about the need to end segregation of Australians with disabilities, particularly in schools. “This is the way we build an entire country,” he said of the education system. Continued here

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5 Years Ago, a Divisive Director Made an Underrated Space Epic -- And Rewrote History     Coming off the release of La La Land in 2016, it didn’t look like anything could slow down director Damien Chazelle. The filmmaker had been christened by critics, casual moviegoers, and his peers as one of the directors of his generation. Even the great William Friedkin deemed him “the future of American cinema.” But the widespread acclaim of both La La Land and 2014’s Whiplash didn’t stop his next film from receiving a muted response. When Chazelle’s First Man hit theaters in 2018, critics and moviegoers alike shrugged. The film didn’t receive negative reviews, but it wasn’t the popular hit La La Land was, nor did it receive the same overwhelming level of critical acclaim as Whiplash. Continued here

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Photography: Real and Imagined at the NGV - a huge and dazzling exhibition that reexamines our thinking     Photography is almost 200 years old and Photography: Real and Imagined at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) can be interpreted as an attempt to make sense of its history. A huge and dazzling exhibition containing 311 photographs, the basic thesis of this exhibition is that some photographs record an actuality, others are purely a product of the photographer’s imagination, while many are a mixture of the two. Continued here

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Ukraine recap: what war in the Middle East means for Putin and Ukraine     As news from the Middle East took up longer and longer slots on news programmes and websites, reports from Ukraine were pushed off the front pages, at least for now. But as Robert Dover, professor of intelligence and national security at the University of Hull, explains, any reduction in the world’s attention on the Ukraine war could be an significant opportunity for President Vladimir Putin. It could easily distract the west and undermine its commitment to financial and military support for Ukraine, he argues. Continued here

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Arts organisations say they want to be 'cultural leaders' - but are they living up to their goals?     When the date of the referendum was announced, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO) quietly cancelled its Last Night of the Proms concert scheduled for the night before. The reason, given by the orchestra to the media some weeks after the decision to cancel, was that: Continued here

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4 Years Later, 'Loki' Season 2 Fixes Marvel TV's Biggest Problem     In Loki Season 2, the God of Mischief (Tom Hiddleston) is on a quest to save the TVA from the multiverse. It’s a far cry from his attitude at the top of Season 1: back then, Loki was fresh off his “glorious” tirade in The Avengers, and still set on some form of world domination. His path eventually crosses with Agent Mobius (Owen Wilson), whose particular brand of tough love opens Loki’s eyes to his endless cycle of self interest. By the time he teams up with Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), and faces off with the ominous He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors), Loki finally seems ready to accept that he’s not actually the center of the universe. It’s the very thing that makes Loki such a personal, unique story — and defies one of the MCU’s more tedious new habits in the process.According to star Tom Hiddleston, the stakes are even higher for Loki in Season 2. It’s not only because the fabric of existence is unraveling before his very eyes, but because he’s finally found something outside of himself to care about. “If Season 1 was about self-awareness and self-acceptance, Season 2 is about taking responsibility and trying to find a new purpose,” Hiddleston told Marvel.com before the SAG-AFTRA strikes. “[Loki is] a character who, as long as I’ve played him, has been searching for meaning. Even when he wasn’t aware of it, he was full of grievance and anger and emotional destabilization because he didn’t feel he had purpose or meaning.” Continued here

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Do stress and depression increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease? Here's why there might be a link     Dementia affects more than 55 million people around the world. A number of factors can increase a person’s risk of developing dementia, including high blood pressure, poor sleep, and physical inactivity. Meanwhile, keeping cognitively, physically, and socially active, and limiting alcohol consumption, can reduce the risk.Globally, around 280 million people have depression, while roughly 300 million people experience anxiety. With so many people facing mental health challenges at some stage in their lives, what can we make of this apparent link? Continued here