If one has ever wondered why most people switch off from other people’s reality, wonder no more. In Neil Postman’s book ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business’ he explains how we are distracted by nonsense, served up by the corporate media as entertainment. In “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” Neil […]
The Mac doesn't have a start menu like Windows, but that wasn't always entirely true. In the '90s, Macs offered a list of applications in the Apple Menu. We probably shouldn't count on Apple to bring this feature back, but a free application called XMenu brings this feature back, more or less.
A campaign to vaccinate around a million sheep against the insect-borne bluetongue virus is expected to start in days now agriculture minister Piet Adema as given the go-ahead to a new vaccine. The bluetongue virus was first identified on four Dutch sheep farms in early September last year and spread to hundreds of farms nationwide. It was the first time since 2009 that the disease, which does not pose a threat to humans, has been found in the Netherlands. Bluetongue
(The Center Square) – Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito raised questions Thursday regarding presidential self-pardons and if that question needed to be answered before the court could decide if former President Donald Trump is entitled to the sweeping immunity his legal team has said all presidents enjoy. Whether a president has the power to pardon himself has been untested by the courts because it has never happened. Should it happen in the future, it would almost certainly...
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Westerners see elephants as pets, said Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose government threatened to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the UK to demonstrate their dangersMany Europeans value the lives of elephants more than those of the people who live around them, the president of Botswana has said, amid tensions over potential trophy hunting import bans.Botswana recently threatened to send 30,000 elephants to the UK and Germany after both countries proposed stricter controls on hunting trophies. The...
Record numbers of people are starting new businesses, and more and more of them are women and minorities, according to a new study. New business applications jumped in 2020 as the pandemic started, and have continued to be filed at a record pace. More than 5 million applications were filed in 2021 and 2022 and […]
One in seven people in the Netherlands go short of food or lack a balanced diet, according to a study compiled for the Red Cross. Some 4% of people said they did not have enough to eat, while 4% did not eat a varied or healthy diet and 6% struggled with both. The figures are almost unchanged since the last survey was carried out three years ago, research bureau Ipsos/I&O said. Food poverty is more common in migrant communities, families
Panama City, Apr 15 (Prensa Latina) Panama's President Laurentino Cortizo on Monday advocated food safety, an issue set forth in the Constitution, he said. The post President Laurentino Cortizo champions Panama´s food safety first appeared on Prensa Latina.
A new study has revealed that AI can now effectively predict a person's political stance through facial recognition technology.
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At a hearing in Washington DC, Donald Trump's lawyers have been arguing that he cannot be tried for his alleged crimes, which include conspiring to overturn the 2020 US presidential election. We ask lawyer Amy Howe what this all means for him and his political future.Also in the programme: a new transitional council is sworn in to lead Haiti amid continuing violence and chaos; and the so-called 'Pushkin plot' to steal rare books from libraries across Europe and replace them with fakes.(Photo: US...