At a gloomy Downing Street press conference yesterday, Boris Johnson was unable to deliver to usual good news of a slight relaxation of lockdown rules, moving the country a step back to normality. After seeing spikes in infection rates across the country, and having to reimpose some measures on Greater Manchester and parts of Lancashire … Read more
A California man says he feels lucky to be alive after he was hospitalized for more than two months following a bout with the novel coronavirus and had to have most of his fingers amputated. Gregg Garfield, 54, from Studio City, fell ill after going on a ski trip with a group of friends in … Read more
HENRY DEEDES: Pure Tinker, Tailor… all it needed was Smiley with a filterless Senior Service By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 21 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 21 July 2020 As a cast of characters goes, even that masterful spy scribe John Le Carre might have struggled to improve upon … Read more
Boris Johnson has faced calls for clarity on wearing face masks after saying a ‘stricter’ approach is needed in England. The government is considering following Scotland’s lead by making them mandatory in shops, as experts say indoor environments are ‘much more dangerous’ for airborne transmission. The Prime Minister is facing mountain calls from Labour and … Read more
A grandmother-of-one whose fiancé is 39 years her junior has told how she ditched her pals after they disapproved of her younger beau. Pam Shasteen, 60, was devastated when her best friends labelled Jonathan Langevin, 21, ‘young enough to be her grandson’ and told Pam she ‘needed therapy.’ Since then the loved-up couple, from Tulsa, … Read more
Just 110 humans would be needed to set up new Mars colony, expert reveals Jean-Marc Salott at Bordeaux Institut National Polytechnique carried out study He found that just 110 needed to help make tools and commodities on the planet The colony would have to live in an oxygen-filled dome and start own agriculture By Bhvishya … Read more
A father who fell critically ill with coronavirus had to have his leg amputated when the infection triggered deadly blood clots. Anthony Earl, 59, is one of a growing number of Covid-19 patients to suffer from the nasty complication of the disease, which can also lead to strokes and heart attacks. The delivery driver, of … Read more
The rapidity with which a pandemic can transmogrify into a financial crisis, blocking the plumbing of the monetary system, is outlined in graphic detail by the Bank of England’s markets chief Andrew Hauser. In a Bloomberg speech, he reveals that as the moving vans were idling outside Threadneedle Street – with Mark Carney leaving the … Read more
‘Passive’ visual experiences play a key part in our early learning experiences and should be replicated in AI vision systems, according to neuroscientists. Italian researchers argue there are two types of learning – passive and active – and both are crucial in the development of our vision and understanding of the world. Who we become as … Read more
My younger daughter may have Down’s syndrome but she has a firm grasp of the principles of weight loss. Last week I said to her, after getting off the scales: ‘Oh dear, I’ve put on more weight.’ Her response was instant: ‘Eat less, move more!’ And to my reply that I would try to do … Read more