Glad to say that the four astronauts who have been in space since August have returned safely and we have no idea what the ‘serious medical condition’ was or which astronaut was affected but even to spend 5 months in Space is a great achievement and I wish them all well.
However, we need to ensure that news channels don’t take advantage of the situation and use the fact that all the stops were pulled out to make sure the Astronaut’s were safe, but that we don’t currently have a Health system that ensures patients are not left in corridors in hospitals and are not treated in a timely manner with respect. The two stories should not be juxta positioned , at the end of the day , Space Travel is not Health Travel and they are two separate budgets.
Well it turns out that being in space for a year causes your brain to change shape ” upward and backward within the skull”. The effect is replicated closely by those unfortunates on Earth who have had to have tilted bed rest for long periods, yes the brain slides backwards.
So gravity and amniotic fluid interact and the brain moves around and no one really knows what the long term effect will be. This has implications for Space Travel. It explains a lot about the behaviour on the Star Trek Enterprise.
Thank you to Oprah Flash from BBC Online News for the Headline
I’ve worked in a few retail business’s and there was an onus put on those at the till-face to spot fake notes and also to deal with the culprit trying to pass them off.
So I read this Headline with interest, as I often wondered where the notes came from. Turns out that in this particular case , the £20 notes were printed in a house in Kidderminster and then sold on e-bay
The notes are sold on the internet as “prop” notes, presumably for fake magic tricks. However , pieces of foil are used to conceal the “prop note” text, and these are definitely illegal and counterfeit.
Unfortunately these notes are worth nothing and end up having to be given into the Police who then have to investigate their origin.
I remember there would be a spate of attempts at passing them in one area, and word tended to get around to be on the look out.
Thanks to Debbie Graham of Discover Wildlife Online for the Headline
Bit of a long headline, certainly not short and snappy like I imagine it’s subject to be. The creature is a Veined Octopus, now if the name doesn’t give you nightmares my AI generated picture will.(see below)
The veined octopus walks on two legs and uses the other six as camouflage or to carry it’s home around, or if you are a fan of certain horror movies to wrap itself around you and suck your blood after squeezing you to within an inch of your life and using it’s razor sharp beak to tear lumps of flesh of your face.
Sorry I digress, this Octopus lives in the Molucca Sea of Indonesia, and is also known as the Coconut Octopus because it sometimes uses discarded coconut shells as it’s home. Perhaps it’s quite cute after all.
AI generated picture, the veined octopus is not scary and just gets on with it’s life.
Thank You to Maria Martinez of Reuters for this Headline
A very altruistic statement from the German Finance Minister, the future of Greenland is up to Denmark and Greenland.
I’ve never really thought any different.
I thought America was part of N.A.T.O , so what makes them think that they can have Greenland as a prize.
If it’s all about minerals, then I think if you are willing to invade one of your own to gain commercial advantage then you are capable of doing much worse things. I think the whole World knows that .
Thanks to Joe Locker of Nottinghamshire Live for the Headline
“Robin Hood , Robin Hood Riding through the glen” . Oh my I was taken aback when I heard that the Sheriff of Nottingham was repeating history and had to be investigated over questions raised over his conduct.
This time it’s a Labour Councillor who has taken on the title of Sheriff of Nottingham but is really there to promote Tourism to Nottingham.
Has he been demanding corn tithes from everyone and taking unfair advantage of their daughters if they failed to pay up .Or chopping peoples heads off for poaching or stealing deer.
No , there’s a possibility that he had his private car serviced at Land Rover Jaguar at the expense of the Council. The investigation is waiting on the paperwork to assess if this is true.
Thanks to Zak Doffman a contributor about security, surveillance and privacy at Forbes for the Headline
I think this headline is very effective not in just telling the story of the shutting down of Communications in Iran , but also in portraying the danger that the protesters are in by actually just saying that they are unhappy with the situation in Iran. “Kill Switch” meant to me not just blocking the satellite communications with Starlink, but also taking revenge on those that are using it.
Will the authorities manage to block the people with the illegal devices that can track the satellites and transmit communications with them? So far they have managed to block about 80% of the traffic, however at a cost to themselves in Iran’s Economic Performance. It seems that the Economy needs a decent Internet Communication to function. So the Iranian Authorities are indeed not just repressing their people , they are also shooting themselves in the foot at the same time.
Thanks to Evan Bush and Aria Bendix from NBC News for the Headline
Tragically, there has been a many fold increase in the instances of death cap mushroom poisoning in California with 35 cases recorded in that last couple of months where normally there would be fewer than 5.
So far three people have died from the poisoning. The poison in them amatoxin can cause irreversible liver damage.
Weather conditions including early rains and a mild autumn have resulted in a surfeit of the toxic mushrooms which are very similar in appearance to edible mushrooms.
Small amounts of the death cap mushroom can be fatal, as little as a standard sugar cube.
I suppose the advice is just buy mushrooms from a trusted source and make sure you Health Insurance Premiums are up to date.
Thankfully an expert who studies the prevalence of the death cap mushroom is saying that the risk is reducing due to the season finishing and perhaps colder weather coming . Still the spores will be ready next year, so if you are going to forage , be careful.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏
Mushrooms or Toadstools, I’m not too sure . AI Generated.
This is the type of headline that I love, somehow associating Nicholas Cage with requests to wave Nazi memorabalia and flags. Definitely made me have a second look, whether I’d go and see the film is another thing. Although I do think Cage is an excellent actor.
For those of you who want to know ,the film is ” Operation Fortitude” about the efforts of the British in 1944 to mislead Nazi Germany about the nature and timings of the D-Day landings and the storming of Normandy.
Enter stage right Waltham Forest Council, who wanted time to consider their role and the fact that the beautiful Waltham Forest Town Hall would be covered in Nazi paraphernalia ( big flags) and that the local people would have to understand that it was purely for a film and that they hadn’t politically moved to the extreme right.
Unfortunately due to filming pressures; the shoot had to be moved forward a month and it was impossible for the Council to play their part( bit like Marilyn Monroe, they were not in the mood and needed more time to consider) which due to filming pressures apparently they couldn’t have.
The preemptive letters sent by the film Company to the locals living nearby ( sent before anything had been agreed) explaining that when they started filming “the Nazi Flag’s would be highly visible” just confused everyone and the Council were quite adamant that no Nazi flags visible or otherwise would be flying on their Council Buildings.
So the shoot was moved to Greenwich, presumably to the old Navy buildings there.
The Council were quite clear that there was no cost or benefit or threats of suing as a result of this change of plan. I actually think the Council buildings look fine as they are , quite Art Deco if you ask me and I’m sure Nicholas Cage is pleased to be working again.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading. 🙏
AI interpretation of Art Deco Council Building , definitely not the Council Building.
Thanks to Jess Cockerill and Science Alert Online for the Headline.
What a bummer, the adopt a mammoth scheme run by a museum led to the discovery that two bones from the spine of a large animal found in 1951 in the Alaskan Interior are actually from a whale not a mammoth.
The DNA analysis that they were able to complete from the “adoption money” to determine the age of the bones, showed they were a lot younger than they would have to be to be a Wooly Mammoth. Not just that but the diet was all wrong, analysis showed that the animal lived predominately on seafood.
There are a few possibilities as to how the bones came to be in the museum; maybe a Whale somehow made it’s way into a tributary and maybe drifted across to the area the bones were found( unlikely due to the size of the animal), the whales bones were transported to the region by humans for some sort of ceremonial or decorative purpose or there was a mix up by the archeologists in categorisation.
Either way the name chosen for the Wooly Mammoth by the adoptee of Morris the Mammoth has now had to be changed to Wally the Whale. ( apologies I made that bit up). The rest though is true.
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