Plants and bookcases in, living rooms and blank walls out: how your Zoom background can make you seem more competent: Working from home has made job interviews and starting a new role easier in many ways. You don’t have to worry about a missed train or spilt coffee derailing a job interview if it’s on …
Being an only child doesn’t affect your development – family background matters more: Motortion Films/Shutterstock Being an only child is a “disease in itself”, according to 19th century psychologist Stanley G. Hall. Even though Hall’s views and scholarly research methods have been questioned and criticised, only children’s reputation as spoiled, overprotected and lonely has persisted …
Remove the background from an image with this Linux command: Remove the background from an image with this Linux command Don Watkins Mon, 04/10/2023 – 03:00 You have a great picture of yourself and want to use it for your social media profile, but the background is distracting. Another picture has a perfect background for …
Disabled young people have less upward social mobility than their peers – and class background makes this worse: Monika Wisniewska/Shutterstock We know very little about the inequalities experienced by disabled people in the UK today. My research finds that disabled young people lag behind in employment compared to young people who are not disabled. Not …
A nice Cape Town image: Kitesurfer at the Blouberg Beach (Cape Town in the background) Image by Marti McFly Image automatically curated and published by www.free-mail.co.za – CLICK HERE to learn more about WP Robot for WordPress. Have you tried: Farking?
A cool Cape Town image: Cape Town pigeon — white background Image by Dunnock_D This is a very nice pigeon in Cape Town. The composite photo is made up of eight photos. Image automatically curated and published by www.free-mail.co.za – CLICK HERE to learn more about WP Robot for WordPress. Have you tried: Travelling to …
Obesity: neither genetics nor social background are very good predictors of your body weight – new research: There's still much we don't know about body weight. Christian Delbert/ Shutterstock There’s long been debate about whether genetics or the environment people are raised in is the biggest cause of obesity. Obesity rates have tripled since the …
Curious Kids: what is cosmic microwave background radiation?: Yaroslav Vitkovskiy/Shutterstock What is cosmic microwave background radiation? Did it happen after the Big Bang? – Sreehari, aged nine, Kerala State, India The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB for short), is light: the oldest and most distant light that we can see in the entire universe. It comes …
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Dementia: how to make sense of the link with people who struggle to hear over background noise: 'I can't hear what anyone is saying.' Christian Langballe/Unsplash, CC BY-SA The number of people living with dementia is projected to treble from 50 to 150 million worldwide by 2050. Although there’s currently no cure for the condition, …
ICC judges ignored Ongwen’s background in guilty verdict. Why it’s a mistake: Dominic Ongwen (centre) sits in the court room of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on December 6, 2016. Peter Dejong/AFP via Getty Images The International Criminal Court in The Hague has found Dominic Ongwen guilty of crimes against humanity and …
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Mass shootings in America have risen sharply in 2020 against a background of COVID and election chaos: Despite the US response to the coronavirus pandemic using sporadic stay-at-home orders and lockdowns, as at November 26 2020 there have been 578 mass shootings so far this year. According to data provided by the Gun Violence Archive, …
A nice Camps Bay Beach image: Elliston on Eyre Peninsula. The town harbour with the grain silos in the background. Image by denisbin Elliston. This superbly sited town on Waterloo Bay on Eyre Peninsula was named by Governor Jervois in 1878 when it was founded. Governor Jervois named 36 South Australian towns and they usually …
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South Africa in the news: Background Check: Martin Brok, Sephora’s New CEO: Martin Brok will assume the role of Sephora president and chief executive officer on Sept. 14, succeeding Chris de Lapuente, who has steered the world’s largest perfumery chain — and tripled its sales …: “South Africa” – BingNews LATEST: Details of closed door …
The background story to a statue of Gandhi and the University of Ghana: Gandhi's statue, which sat in this quad at the University of Ghana, caused great controversy. TG23/Shutterstock In December 2018, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi was removed from the University of Ghana’s campus in response to protests from students and staff. They argued …