Skin in the game: is live artistic nudity more than titillation?
Posted on April 15, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
‘When people from these interventions return to the stations we’ve shot at, they feel: ‘This is home.’’ An image from Mischa Badasyan and Abdulsalam Ajaj’s collection Weil Ich Dich Liebe. Photograph: Abdulsalam Ajaj‘When people from these interventions return to the stations we’ve shot at, they feel: ‘This is home.’’ An image from Mischa Badasyan and Abdulsalam Ajaj’s collection Weil Ich Dich Liebe. Photograph: Abdulsalam AjajArtFrom Lourdes to the Berlin metro, artists are continuing the tradition of stripping off in public – but is it still radical, or just lazy?
[Read More]Top 10 wilderness stories
Posted on April 15, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Top 10sBooksFrom ancient forests and isolated and unnamed mountainous regions to the US west, literature relishes wild settings
The wilderness is commonly thought of as an environment that exists in opposition to human culture – a vast geographic ecosystem that has not been significantly altered or influenced by human activity. Precisely because of this, humans tend to idealise it from a distance, relishing a notion of the wilderness that is often limited to a beautiful or sublime setting.
[Read More]Two US mothers sue hospitals over drug tests after eating poppy seed bagels | New Jersey
Posted on April 15, 2024
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New Jersey This article is more than 9 months oldTwo US mothers sue hospitals over drug tests after eating poppy seed bagelsThis article is more than 9 months oldNew Jersey mothers allege hospitals performed tests without consent and say poppy seeds were reason for false positive results
Few people would ever expect that the simple act of eating a poppy seed bagel could lead to the investigation of young mothers and their newborn babies over suspected opiate use, but that is exactly what two women in New Jersey say happened to them.
[Read More]Bring up the bodies: the retired couple who find drowning victims | Forensic science
Posted on April 14, 2024
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Gene and Sandy Ralston on Lake Billy Chinook in Jefferson County, Oregon. Photograph: Leah Nash/The GuardianGene and Sandy Ralston are a married couple in their 70s, who also happen to be among North America’s leading experts at searching for the dead
by Doug HornerWhen Gene and Sandy Ralston returned to their truck after a day on the Beardsley reservoir in northern California in March 2002, they discovered several handwritten notes taped to the doors and windscreen: “Call Lieutenant Lunney as soon as you get back to town.
[Read More]Eve Hewson: I have a cat, I like to sleep 12 hours a night | Life and style
Posted on April 14, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
This much I knowLife and styleInterviewEve Hewson: ‘I have a cat, I like to sleep 12 hours a night’Nick McGrathThe actor, 31, on starring in Bad Sisters, working with James Gandolfini, coming home to Dublin and not going skydivingI loved growing up in Dublin. I had a pretty normal childhood. I took the train to a local school every day. But I was a little rebellious. Sitting in a classroom wasn’t enough for me.
[Read More]FC Gold Pride: the rise and fall of womens soccers forgotten dream team
Posted on April 14, 2024
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Women's footballThe San Francisco Bay Area was once briefly home to a powerhouse including Marta, Christine Sinclair, Camille Abily and Kelley O’Hara. But nobody cared enough to keep the club afloat
Running away from the cleat-melting turf at Hayward’s Pioneer Stadium, the newly minted 2010 national soccer champions chanted “Obama! Obama!” as they gathered around the champagne-filled coolers in the locker-room. Led by the likes of Brazil’s Marta, Canada’s Christine Sinclair and then-rookies Kelley O’Hara and Ali Riley, FC Gold Pride, the San Francisco Bay Area’s representative in the short-lived Women’s Professional Soccer league (WPS), defeated the Philadelphia Independence 4-0 in the final.
[Read More]Im a very spiritual person! Eurovision winner Loreen on fear, fame, family and fighting for
Posted on April 14, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
‘My people use music as a very powerful tool’ … Loreen. Photograph: Corinne Cumming 2023/Charli LjungFresh from her second victory in the world’s most over-the-top pop contest, the ‘nomad from the Atlas mountains’ talks about life in Sweden, the pain of competing and her search for a purpose
by Zoe WilliamsI meet Loreen in what I know, from meeting Sam Ryder here last year, is the fleeting habitat of the Eurovision elite – the Langham hotel in central London.
[Read More]Schools in England need more resources to address dangers of porn, teachers say | Relationships and
Posted on April 14, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
Delegates to the NEU’s annual conference passed a motion calling for ‘properly resourced’ sex education. Photograph: David Jones/PADelegates to the NEU’s annual conference passed a motion calling for ‘properly resourced’ sex education. Photograph: David Jones/PARelationships and sex education This article is more than 1 year oldSchools in England need more resources to address dangers of porn, teachers sayThis article is more than 1 year oldOne in 20 primary school pupils have shared nude images with each other, delegates at NEU’s annual conference hear
[Read More]The Elon Musk Show review is the worlds richest man a genius, or just a goofy loner?
Posted on April 14, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewThis documentary tries to get the measure of the poster boy for capitalism, with the help of loose-lipped former colleagues – and his mother
Finding out what celebrities were like before they were successful can be fascinating – or it can just be a biography of a person when they were still ordinary. The Elon Musk Show (BBC Two) begins with the latter.
Two subsequent episodes ought to deal with the real Elon Musk, which is to say the increasingly unreal public figure, who has become a brand more recognisable than any of his companies, matching his unprecedented wealth with outlandish behaviour.
[Read More]Top 10 books about the 1970s | Culture
Posted on April 14, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Top 10sCultureTop 10 books about the 1970sJimmy Carter’s energy policy, stadium rock, the death of Mao, fall of the Shah, The Sweeney and Roy of the Rovers feature as hot topics among Ian Plenderleith’s recommended reads
The 1970s have been much reviled and much revived, as Andy Beckett – author of the excellent When the Lights Went Out (Faber) – put it so well. Francis Wheen’s Strange Days Indeed (Fourth Estate) and Alwyn Turner’s Crisis?
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