Europeans

Americans and Europeans cooped up in lockoown marvel at State of Origin crowd

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Australia is the envy of the world after hosting the biggest crowd at a sporting event since the coronavirus pandemic began. Thousands around the globe who tuned into the State of Origin decider were stunned to see over 52,000 eager fans packed in Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium with no social distancing and very few face masks. … Read more

Cyborgs: Two-thirds of Western Europeans would consider augmenting their bodies with technology

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The future is cyborg: Two-thirds of Western Europeans would consider ‘upgrading’ their bodies with technology – but Brits are less keen than the Spanish and Portugese Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky commissioned a poll on body ‘upgrades’ Those interested in augmentation were largely attracted by the health benefits In Portugal and Spain, 60 per cent of those polled would … Read more

Half of Europeans feel the EU has been an ‘irrelevance’ during the Covid-19 crisis

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Half of Europeans feel the EU has been an ‘irrelevance’ during the Covid-19 crisis and 60% say they now have a lower opinion of the US – while only 48% say the same of China The stats are from a recent poll by the European Council on Foreign Relations It found that just under half of … Read more

Ancient Britons were among the first Europeans to shift to dairy farming

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More than 7,000 years ago ancient Britons were among the first to star farming cows for their milk, a study of pottery fragments has revealed.   Scientists from the University of York tracked the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to early farming in prehistoric Europe over about 1,500 years. The York team examined the molecular remains of … Read more

Scientists say 15% of Europeans could already be carrying antibodies for coronavirus

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Europe could be close to herd immunity from coronavirus already, with far more people infected than previously thought, a controversial study in Germany has said. Scientists studying Gangelt, the town at the centre of Germany’s first big outbreak dubbed the ‘German Wuhan’, found as many as 15 per cent of people may have already been infected … Read more

One in FIVE Europeans suffer from noise pollution caused by traffic and aircraft

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One in five Europeans suffer from noise pollution caused by traffic and aircraft as officials warn up to half of city-dwellers are exposed to constant road noise.  Alarmingly, figures are set to rise in the next decade due to urban growth, the European Environment Agency (EEA) predict.   Noise pollution can disrupt sleep at night, while chronic … Read more

Easter Island’s native civilisation had not collapsed when Europeans arrived

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Easter Island’s native civilisation was only destroyed AFTER European colonisers reached the isolated nation in 1770 and brought with them disease, slavery and murder A long-held theory claims the native society collapsed around 1600AD  But researchers now know this is not true and it flourished into the 18th century  When European settlers arrived on the … Read more