Dragons' Den episode edited after ear seed complaints
Campaigners for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) complained the show promoted unfounded claims that product could help ME
ear seeds-tiny beads placed on the ears - so they stimulate pressure points
https://bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68119301 -BBC
Mystery Sorrento body case still baffles police nearly 60 years later
https://abc.net.au/news/2023-10-23/victoria-mystery-woman-cold-case/103008322
The case dates back to 1966 but contains no information about this photo or how it is connected to the case
The photo was taken in Italy and was dated April 10, 1961.
- ABC News
interesting story
1 - What happens if a radioactive source remains lost?
The search for the lost capsule in WA triggered an immediate and highly publicised search, but not all responses are as rigorous.
2 - In the 1970s, a small radioactive capsule with a caesium-137 source — originally part of a radiation level gauge — was lost in the Karansky quarry in Soviet Ukraine's Donetsk region.
3- The search for the capsule was eventually abandoned and the gravel from the quarry was used in the construction of an apartment building in Kramatorsk.
In 1981, a year after construction, an 18-year-old girl who lived in apartment number 85 died of leukaemia.
4 - A year later, her 16-year-old brother died of the same illness, followed by their mother.
Doctors believed the three deaths were a result of some genetic predisposition, but when a new family moved into the apartment and their son also died of leukaemia,
5 - his father pushed for an investigation.
Specialists arrived at the apartment with a dosimeter and discovered sky-high radiation levels.
A powerful gamma radiation was coming from the wall where, after further testing,
authorities found the capsule containing caesium-137.
6 - Dr Kempson said this source may have been more potent than the capsule lost in WA. -
END
source
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-02-03/radioactive-capsule-western-australia-wa-what-is-the-risk/101911004
Muscogee Nation and Georgia officials will cooperate on restoring the sacred
Hundreds of Indigenous people disinterred by archaeologists at the historic Etowah Mounds in Georgia
will be returned to their descendants
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https://ictnews.org/news/muscogee-nation-and-georgia-officials-will-cooperate-on-restoring-the-sacred
Altruism in birds?
When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds.
Our goal was to learn more about the movement and social dynamics of these highly intelligent birds, and to test these new, durable and reusable devices.
Instead, the birds outsmarted us.
As our new research paper explains, the magpies began showing evidence of cooperative “rescue” behaviour to help each other remove the tracker.
Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov has been found dead at an Indian hotel, two days after a friend died during the same trip.
They were visiting the eastern state of Odisha and the millionaire, who was also a local politician, had just celebrated his birthday at the hotel.
Antov was a well known figure in the city of Vladimir, east of Moscow.
Last summer he denied criticising Russia's war in Ukraine after a message appeared on his WhatsApp account.
The millionaire's death is the latest in a series of unexplained deaths involving Russian tycoons since the start of the Russian invasion, many of whom have openly criticised the war.
Reports in Russian media said Mr Antov, 65, had fallen from a window at the hotel in the city of Rayagada on Sunday.
Another member of his four-strong Russian group, Vladimir Budanov, died at the hotel on Friday.
