August 2019

The little-known spinal injury ‘costing the NHS millions’

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“I didn’t know there was a ticking clock above my head” Failure to identify and treat a little-known spinal condition probably costs the NHS hundreds of millions a year, according to a leading consultant. Cauda equina syndrome requires surgery within hours to avoid damage to the bowel,

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Inside The First Netflix Movie To Get The Obamas’ Stamp Of Approval

When Netflix met with veteran documentarians Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar to acquire their new film “American Factory” in January, fresh off the film’s acclaimed premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, there were also executives from Higher Ground Productions in the room. “They told us who they were, and we had never heard of it,”

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Wildfire on Canary Islands forces evacuation of 5,000

Authorities in Spain’s Canary Islands say a wildfire that is throwing flames 50 meters (160 feet) into the air has forced emergency services to evacuate more than 5,000 people. Canary Islands President Ángel Víctor Torres says 1,100 firefighters are being deployed Monday on Gran Canaria, a mountainous volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean archipelago off

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In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music

While the rest of America was roaring to jazz during the ’20s, in a small corner of the South, where back roads snake through early-morning mist and porches are used for melody-making as much as sitting in rocking chairs, another form of music was quietly taking root. In the heart of southern Appalachia, at the

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Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite

SAN FRANCISCO — In George Orwell’s “1984,” the classics of literature are rewritten into Newspeak, a revision and reduction of the language meant to make bad thoughts literally unthinkable. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words,” one true believer exults. Now some of the writer’s own words are getting reworked in Amazon’s vast virtual

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