Ask a grown-up: why are blueberries blue?

 Posted on March 20, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  175 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Ask a grown-upLife and styleA nutritional therapist answers nine-year-old Alice's questionBlueberries aren't actually blue, but deep purple, which is the colour of anthocyanin, a pigment that is especially rich in blueberries. Humans have evolved to be attracted to, and to want to eat, coloured foods. For example, our ancestors would have known to eat berries that had a rich colour, because that meant they were sweet and ripe. Animals would also have been attracted to the vivid colour of ripe berries, and would have eaten the berries, resulting in the seeds being spread around afterwards when they went to the toilet. [Read More]

Fiona Pilkington case: police face misconduct proceedings | Police

 Posted on March 20, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1025 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Police This article is more than 12 years oldFiona Pilkington case: police face misconduct proceedingsThis article is more than 12 years oldChief constable issues apology after IPCC finds force failed to help harassed woman who killed herself and disabled daughterFour police officers will face misconduct proceedings over their force's failure to properly help the family of Fiona Pilkington, who killed herself and her severely disabled daughter in 2007 after years of torment by youths, the police watchdog said. [Read More]

Florida QB Jalen Kitna released on bail after child abuse image charges | College football

 Posted on March 20, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  548 words  |  Valentine Belue

College football This article is more than 1 year oldFlorida QB Jalen Kitna released on bail after child abuse image chargesThis article is more than 1 year oldCollege athlete faces up to 15 years in prison if found guiltyPlayer is son of former NFL quarterback Jon KitnaFlorida back-up quarterback Jalen Kitna was released from jail on an $80,000 bond on Thursday, a day after he was arrested on five charges involving child abuse images. [Read More]

From Kelce to Gronk: the unstoppable rise of the party-bro tight end

 Posted on March 20, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1392 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

NFLDallas Goedert and Travis Kelce will be important parts of Sunday’s Super Bowl. They also embody the changing nature of their position When it comes to staffing the tight end position, NFL teams definitely have a type. A standout player combines ox-like strength with deer-like speed and hops. He excels at blocking and catching. He seems like the kind of guy who would judge another man by his calf size, or babble on about his crypto killing when he’s not swilling beer upside down from a keg. [Read More]

Maya Angelou: my terrible, wonderful mother

 Posted on March 20, 2024  |  17 minutes  |  3586 words  |  Kary Bruening

Maya AngelouMaya Angelou was just three when her mother sent her to live with her grandma, and 13 when they were reunited. After so long apart, could she ever learn to love her?The first decade of the 20th century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. [Read More]

Official Competition review Penlope Cruz is a deadpan dream in wicked film-world satire

 Posted on March 20, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  698 words  |  Aldo Pusey

‘An electrical storm of red curls’: Penélope Cruz in Official Competition. Photograph: Manolo Pavon‘An electrical storm of red curls’: Penélope Cruz in Official Competition. Photograph: Manolo PavonThe ObserverDrama filmsReviewTwo actors vie for the attention of their autocratic director in this hilarious Spanish-language skewering of the movie-making business There’s a certain kind of film about film-making that fully buys into the magic and mystery; that devours the dream factory narrative and delivers a warm embrace of a movie, channelling a message about the transformative power of cinema. [Read More]

The life and times of Nicky Bandini Football Weekly | Football

 Posted on March 20, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  233 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Football Weekly Football The life and times of Nicky Bandini – Football Weekly More ways to listen Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify RSS Feed Download Presented by Max Rushden with Barry Glendenning and Nicky Bandini. Produced by Joel Grove and our executive producer is Danielle Stephens. Tue 4 Jul 2023 05. [Read More]

War games: McCain caught playing poker on iPhone during Syria debate | John McCain

 Posted on March 20, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  289 words  |  Aldo Pusey

John McCain This article is more than 10 years oldWar games: McCain caught playing poker on iPhone during Syria debateThis article is more than 10 years oldUS senator suggests in confessional tweet he may have been looking for a little light relief during three-hour hearingGiven he has been calling for the Syrian rebels to be armed for more than 18 months, you would have thought that Senator John McCain might have been interested in what was said during the three-hour hearing of the Senate committee on foreign relations discussing the potential use of force against the Assad regime. [Read More]

A man joked about throwing a Walmart party and thousands RSVPed. So he made it a toy drive | New Jer

 Posted on March 19, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  468 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

New Jersey This article is more than 1 month oldA man joked about throwing a Walmart party and thousands RSVPed. So he made it a toy driveThis article is more than 1 month oldNew Jersey man asks attendees to purchase toys and will collect them to donate – ‘something good can come from this’ After a New Jersey man joked about throwing a party at the self-checkout at his local Walmart, the idea has since evolved into a more generous shindig: a toy drive. [Read More]

Bubble Bath review hallucinogenic animated musical is a work of 70s genius

 Posted on March 19, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  359 words  |  Kary Bruening

FilmReviewThis psychedelic Hungarian film from 1979 pulsates with crazed anxieties about modernity Directed by György Kovásznai, who died of leukaemia in 1983, Hungary’s third ever full-length animated feature is a true curio and a work of minor genius: a gallopingly neurotic modernist-psychedelic musical from 1979 that bubbles and pulsates with anxieties about modernity. Life drawing: why is adult animation bigger than ever?Read moreIt mostly takes place inside a single Budapest apartment, where medical student Anikó (voiced by Vera Venzcel, with Kati Bontovits singing) is suddenly visited by the walrus-moustached Zsolt (Kornél Gelley, with Albert Antalffy singing). [Read More]