Helena Gilhooly, late 50s
‘I nearly collapsed on Christmas Eve in the supermarket. I started having a panic attack at the counter’
Running her own small jewellery-making business, Busybeaders, led Helena Gilhooly to develop some “bad habits:…
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‘Gateway to hell’: young reporter’s harrowing two years in besieged Gaza | Gaza
It is six o’clock in the morning on Saturday 7 October 2023. Half awake, I call out in a hoarse voice to my two sisters who are sleeping on their beds next to me: “Enas, Remas, wake up – you have school.”
We were not to know it yet, but…
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Tim Dowling: I’m under an azure Croatian sky – fretting about the roof back home | Life and style
I’m sitting on a terrace overlooking a sparkling bay. Directly in front of me fishing boats rock gently on the water and tidy white houses are piled on the hill opposite. I’m looking at my phone.
The video I’m watching is narrated by…
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Programming Space Game For X86 In Assembly Without An Operating System
In this video our hacker [Inkbox] shows us how to create a computer game that runs directly on computer hardware, without an operating system!
[Inkbox] briefly explains what BIOS is, then covers how UEFI replaces it. He talks about the…
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The Celebrity Traitors to I Swear: the week in rave reviews | Culture
TV
If you only watch one, make it …
The Celebrity Traitors
BBC iPlayer
Come all ye faithful … The Celebrity Traitors, including Claire Balding, David Olusoga, Joe Wilkinson and Paloma Faith. Photograph: BBC/Studio Lambert/Cody Burridge Summed up…
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The Freak: script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film to be published | Charlie Chaplin
He rose from the slums of Victorian London to become arguably cinema’s first great comic artist, with The Great Dictator and Limelight among his masterpieces.
Now the script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film is to be published, having…
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From Tron: Ares to Riot Women: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead | Culture
Going out: Cinema
Tron: Ares
Out now
Perhaps the most exciting thing for many about this new Tron film is that it has a score from Nine Inch Nails. It also stars Jared Leto as the embodiment of a super-advanced AI program sent into the real world on…Continue Reading
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Blind date: ‘After too many tepid, app-based dates, outsourcing my love life to a paper is obviously the way to go’ | Dating
Hannah on Ioan
What were you hoping for?
A fun evening with a stranger … hopefully good chat and not painfully awkward.First impressions?
Warm, friendly and charismatic.What did you talk about?
What didn’t we talk about? We discussed the dating…Continue Reading
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Researchers solve mystery of how bats prey on birds in flight – Euronews.com
- Researchers solve mystery of how bats prey on birds in flight Euronews.com
- Grisly recording reveals bat catching, killing and eating robin mid-flight The Guardian
- Bats Catch Migratory Birds and Eat Them in Midair The New York Times
- Bats hunt and…
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