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More than a quarter of adults under 25 are completely teetotal. In London – the UK’s youngest and most ethnically diverse region – that figure rises to one in three. The Daily Telegraph
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Media innuendos.
Following the fatal shooting of three Muslim students near the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Fox News reported that their murder was “motivated by an ongoing dispute over a parking space, despite widespread speculation the victims were targeted by an avowed atheist because of their Muslim faith, police said.” Craig Hicks, who has …
Chocolate. A new excuse.
Good news! According to the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the Taub Institute at Columbia University Medical Center, scientists found a direct link between memory loss and a specific part of the brain. They believe that memory decline can be reversed by a change of diet. A component of chocolate increases blood flow to the …
Which accent is the world’s sexiest?
The British accent, which is the sexiest in the world, according to a new poll. In the Time Out survey of 11,000 people in 24 cities, 26.7% said the British accent was the most attractive, while only 7.7% plumped for the French one. (The Week) But which accent? Eliza Doolittle before she was schooled, or …
The French atrocity
“Against pencils, charcoal pencils and [speech] bubbles – they took out Kalashnikovs. What a declaration of weakness! When one does not have arguments, they fire a shot. So did they kill Charlie? No. They missed. Charlie will live, thanks to its readers.” (Liberation, Paris) “The terror attack on Charlie Hebdo is an attack on the …