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Hereβs what youβll learn: The meeting of the two best teams in Glasgow usually tops the Scottish fixture list, but Saturday's encounter at Celtic Park packs a special punch.Under new coach Wilfried Nancy, Celtic have lost five of their past seven matches, three of which came in the league.This has left the reigning Premier League champions on a five-game losing streak in the division at the halfway stage.The French coach leads his team for the first time against Rangers, who are three points behind Celtic.Rangers, under Danny Ruhl,…
π Read this insightful post from BBC Culture π π Category: π‘ Key idea: 12. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the HarvestWith or without Jennifer Lawrence's hero archer, Katniss Everdeen, audiences can't get enough of The Hunger Games, so 2023's The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes follows with another prequel adapted from a Suzanne Collins novel. This film is set 24 years before the first Hunger Games films, so it features younger versions of many of the main characters from Katniss' saga. It should be fun to see how well the new actors get along with the old ones. Ralph…
β¨ Explore this must-read post from WIRED π π Category: Science,Science / Health,Exercise π‘ Key idea: If back pain can be reliably prevented, not only will the quality of life improve, but it will also directly lead to lower health care costs for society as a whole. According to the research team, back pain is one of the most common health problems in Norway, with 60-80% of people suffering from it during their lives. In fact, they say back and neck pain have the highest medical costs and represent an enormous burden on the health care system.βOur findings show the…
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Hereβs what youβll learn: Heather Watson has confirmed she will miss the Australian Open this month, but says she is on track to return from injury by the end of February.The 33-year-old fell to 269th in the world and ninth in the British rankings after being out since late August due to a problem with her buttock tendon, her first major injury in her 17-year professional career. She last played in the first round of qualifying for the US Open, having lost in the first round at Wimbledon…
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Key idea: Blog β Read 20 of the best books entering the public domain in 2026 Happy Public Domain Day! Around the world, people celebrate Public Domain Day on January 1, the day in which copyright expires on some older works and they enter the public domain in many different countries. In the U.S. Constitution, copyright terms were meant to be very limited in order to βpromote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.β The first copyright act, written in 1790 by the founding fathers themselves, set the…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport π π Category: π‘ Key idea: England lifted Al-Bashir from relative obscurity.Stokes first saw him in action for Somerset in a video on social media, which he then shared in his WhatsApp group with ECB managing director Rob Key and head coach Brendon McCullum. Not long after that, Al-Bashir was in the England squad and made only a handful of first-class appearances.In 19 Test matches, Bashir took 68 wickets at an average of 39. He has an economy rate of 3.78 and a strikeout rate of 61.7.His 2.35m release point is…
π Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Culture,Marvel,Science fiction and fantasy films,Metropolis,Dawn of the Planet of the Apes π‘ Main takeaway: 2025 seems more futuristic. Maybe it's the "f" sound in "five." But 2026 is still one step ahead, which is where we are now, where every science-fiction development β ββespecially the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence β looks miserable, or perhaps worse. (Doesn't it seem as if, in a dystopia, anti-human, corporate-backed technology would actually work a little better?) Didn't anyone warn us about this?The answer, at least when it comes to the…
π₯ Read this awesome post from WIRED π π Category: Science,Science / Health,Special K π‘ Main takeaway: The spread of influenza has become more severe this fall, especially in the United States and the United Kingdom. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified the 2024-2025 flu season as the most severe since 2017-2018. In the United Kingdom, the spread began earlier than at any time since 2003-2004.Against this background, some media outlets have begun to use the term βsuper influenza.β However, this term is not an official medical term. The actual name is "subclade K", which is…
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Key idea: Getty ImagesPaul Hunter won the Masters three times during a short but illustrious careerAll Paul Hunter wanted to do was play snooker. An athletic quirk was discovered when he was three years old with the help of a small snooker game sitting on his parents' coffee table in their Leeds home, culminating in a professional career that saw him win six major titles in six years.This year marks 20 years since the beloved fisherman died of cancer, days before his 28th birthday. But despite the loss…
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Main takeaway: With no surprise the end of one year marks the start of the next.And the beginning of a year is always synonymous withβ¦ a fresh macOS system! But managing a good working environment on macOS has long been a game of βhope for the best.β Weβve all been there: a curl | sh here, a manual brew install there, and six months later, youβre staring at a broken PATH and a Python environment that seems to have developed its own consciousness. Iβve spent a lot of…
