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Guardian: Coffee drinkers have much lower risk of bowel cancer recurrence, study finds
People with bowel cancer who drink two to four cups of coffee a day are much less likely to see their disease come back, research has found.
People with the illness who consume that amount are also much less likely to die from any cause, the study shows, which suggests coffee helps those diagnosed with the UK’s second biggest cancer killer.
Looks like I picked a bad week to quit coffee…
Guardian: Medieval Christian misogyny shapes how we judge women today, says scholar
One of the first Christian authors to object was Tertullian, a Roman born around AD160. Other patristics – “fathers” of the early church – were persuaded by his theory that women who wore makeup were unnatural and even diabolical. Zhirnova added: “He’s thinking about it in terms of creation. So, God did not make eyeliner, therefore you should not use it. He has this hilarious argument, which is: if God wanted us to have purple wool, he would have given us purple sheep.”
In a fourth-century treatise on modesty, Saint Ambrose, a theologian and bishop of Milan, concurs with Tertullian. “Nothing counterfeit is pleasing,” he writes, adding that a woman’s beauty should be “natural and artless … nothing must be added for the sake of splendour”.
Interesting reading. I’m not sure how she separated speculation from fact.
Guardian: Canadian students hunger-strike for college to divest from Israel-linked firms
“McGill has ultimately pushed us to take this extreme form of action and put our bodies and our health and our lives on the line to make them know that it is absolutely unacceptable that they use our tuition money to invest in this way.”
The students are calling for McGill, one of the most prestigious universities in Canada, to divest about $20m from various companies.
Amine said the McGill administration had acknowledged the strike, and agreed to a public forum on the issue, before cancelling the meeting. The school proposed a private meeting in early March, the students said, which was turned down.
Dire Straits (YouTube): Down To The Waterline (What’s On, 22nd June 1978)
Dire Straits performing Down To The Waterline in a very early TV performance live on ITV’s What’s On in June, 1978.
I wasn’t familiar with this song. Quite the guitar work.
Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris (YouTube): Full Concert - Real Live Roadrunning (14.11.2006)
Enjoy the full concert “Real Live Roadrunning” only on the official Mark Knopfler YouTube channel: … [set list]
Can’t watch just one!
Last Updated: 23.Mar.2024 23:58 EDT