January 2020

Coronavirus: how quarantine has fought disease through the ages

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Women put dressings on plague victims’ wounds, a painting by Jacopo Robusti, 1549 In China’s Hubei province, over a dozen cities are in lockdown in the hope of preventing further cases of the new Coronavirus. And Western countries are putting people returning from Wuhan, the city at the centre […]

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Rejoice! Ser Pounce From ‘Game Of Thrones’ Is Actually Still Alive.

Vaughan said that, along with Ser Pounce, Birds and Animals U.K. also trained the Inuit dogs that played dire wolves in the first season and Ramsay’s hounds. “They are all pet animals and many are now enjoying their days of retirement!” Vaughan said. Womble was also one of the cats that played Mrs. Norris in

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Trump Told Bolton to Help His Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Book Says

WASHINGTON — More than two months before he asked Ukraine’s president to investigate his political opponents, President Trump directed John R. Bolton, then his national security adviser, to help with his pressure campaign to extract damaging information on Democrats from Ukrainian officials, according to an unpublished manuscript by Mr. Bolton. Mr. Trump gave the instruction,

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‘Uncanny Valley’ Reveals What It’s Really Like To Work In Tech

Ask someone what working in Silicon Valley is like, and they’ll probably default to industry buzzwords and rhetorical talking points: unicorns, clouds, big data. In Anna Wiener’s new memoir about working in technology startups, “Uncanny Valley,” she uses her personal experience to define what this corporate jargon actually means. Wiener documents her path in her

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Netflix’s The Crown to end after season five with Imelda Staunton as Queen

Image copyright Reuters/Netflix Image caption Imelda Staunton (left) will take over from Olivia Colman as the Queen The Crown will end after its fifth series, in which Imelda Staunton will play the Queen, Netflix has announced. Staunton will take over from Olivia Colman, who is portraying the monarch in the third and fourth seasons. It

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