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Welsh police kicked the head of Equality and Human Rights Commission out of holiday house on Christmas Day after locals reporter her breaking Covid rules Rebecca Hilsenrath broke Covid rules by driving from Hertfordshire to Llanegryn Police spoke to her twice after an outcry by locals who found out she was there After the second visit … Read more
A robot dog has learned how to automatically recover after being assaulted by a human antagonizer. Jueying is a quadruped that uses pre-learned skills to quickly respond and adapt to ‘unseen situations,’ such as being pushed down or knocked over with a stick. The project began by training software that guided a virtual version of … Read more
Amid plans to phase out dirty diesel engines, trains run on gas made from human and animal waste and discarded food could join the rolling stock of Britain’s railways. The ‘BioUltra’ railcar is the brainchild of a team of engineers led by the Worcester-based Ultra Light Rail Partners — and will be able to carry up … Read more
Trains powered by human waste and discarded food could be introduced to Britain’s railway network under plans to phase out dirty diesel engines The ‘BioUltra’ railcar is being developed engineers at Ultra Light Rail Partners This Worcester-based firm built a smaller, biogas-fuelled demo train back in July The new train will carry twice the passengers (120 … Read more
Few Prime Ministers actually manage to change the countries they govern. In the past 80 years, only Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson and Tony Blair could claim to have done so – Wilson and Blair very much for the worse. Now, thanks to his achievement of a negotiated departure from the EU, … Read more
Every American child of Ivy League parents will have been read a Christmas tale by the short-story writer O. Henry. It tells of poverty-stricken newly-weds Della and Jim, desperate to buy each other Christmas gifts. So Della sells her long tresses of hair and uses the money to buy Jim a chain for his watch. … Read more
World’s smallest Christmas tree is 40,000 times SMALLER than a human hair and is made up of just 51 atoms The world’s smallest artificial Christmas tree is about the size of a DNA strand It consists of 51 individual atoms and measures just four nanometers tall A student used a device that allowed her to … Read more
A stunning Scottish woman has been branded a ‘real life Barbie doll’ due to her extravagant style. With her big bouncy hair, petite figure, doll-like features and glamourous outfits, it’s no surprise that Elizabeth Smith, 20, from Edinburgh, has been dubbed a Barbie doll by strangers. And Elizabeth says it’s a compliment, adding that she … Read more
Microplastic particles in the womb: Women give birth to ‘cyborg babies’ no longer made up of just human cells as experts fear it could interfere with development In total, 12 microplastic fragments were found in four placentas from six women Only 3 per cent of placenta was sampled, suggesting that total likely to be higher Placenta … Read more
Has any story of grief in this terrible Covid year been quite so harrowing as that of La’Troya Hall? Has any tale brought home so heart-stoppingly the human cost of our failure to treat cancer patients as we should have during the pandemic? Yesterday in the Mail, La’Troya told of her husband Sherwin’s death from … Read more