The top 3 ways dance can lower stress

There is something instinctual about dancing, an echo from our ancestors that calls to us like a forgotten song in early childhood. Dancing makes us feel ‘alive’. It can boost brain-power and allow us to overcome social anxieties, helping us form better social groups with workmates, family members, even complete ...

Tottenham Hot-spur: Club’s North London warehouse up in flames

Thick black smoke is billowing from a Tottenham Hotspur warehouse and can been seen for miles across London. Twelve fire engines and 81 firefighters along with police officers were called to the industrial unit where a blaze has been raging for more than two-and-a-half hours this morning. Half of the ...

A close up rear view of a professional male baseball player wearing a red baseball strip and safety helmet, holding baseball bat just about to strike incoming baseball. The action occurs during a baseball game in a generic floodlit outdoor stadium full of spectators. Baseball ground, scoreboard etc are all fictional.

How sports became the backbone of American life

With all the reality shows, New York-based sitcoms about friendship, and medieval-styled fantasy dramas about royal chairs, it’s easy to forget that the most-watched programs on TV in America are sports broadcasts. In fact, nineteen of America’s twenty all-time most-watched televised events are iterations of the Super Bowl—the only holdout ...

BREAKING GOOD NEWS: Gove backs down on animal sentience after public outcry

The government's move to recognise animal sentience in UK law after Brexit has been welcomed by welfare groups. Concerns were raised last week after the government voted to reject the inclusion of animal sentience in the European Union Withdrawal Bill. Prominent wildlife photographer Richard Bowler described the move as a "vote to ...

Film Review: Battle of the Sexes

“Male chauvinist pig versus hairy-legged feminist”, that’s how former world champion tennis player Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) pitches the titular exhibition bout between himself and twelve-time Grand Slam champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) in this disappointingly conceited biographical dramatisation from Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris. ...

Finnish Railways to recreate Murder on the Orient Express in real-life

Finnish National Railways (VR) is bringing Murder on the Orient Express to life on a long-distance passenger train on December 13th. The game is set on a 13-hour journey across the country, from Helsinki to Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland, in what is arguably the longest-running escape room in history. ...

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