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Spider named after The Very Hungry Caterpillar author Eric Carle

Image copyright Getty Images/Manchester Museum Image caption Spider experts think the jumping spider (right) looks a bit like the famous caterpillar A jumping spider has been named after Eric Carle, the author of children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The arachnid was found by naturalist Stefan Obenauer in a Hong Kong park, who contacted Manchester […]

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Stop & Shop Workers Just Launched A Massive Strike Across New England

Business / En Sound Media

Roughly 31,000 employees of the grocery store chain Stop & Shop launched the largest private-sector strike in the U.S. in years, walking off the job at 240 stores across New England on Thursday. Leaders at the United Food and Commercial Workers union declared the strike after months of negotiations with the company failed to produce

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‘I was playing at mass when the fire broke’

World / En Sound Media

Organist Johann Vexo was evacuated from Notre-Dame when fire alarms sounded. He had performed at the cathedral for many years and said was “a part of my life which is destroyed”. The 850-year-old gothic landmark was extensively damaged when the blaze took hold on Monday. President Emmanuel Macron has vowed the cathedral will be rebuilt

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London climate-change protesters to disrupt Heathrow Airport

Travel / En Sound Media

Environmental protesters who have blocked London roads and bridges for more than three days said Thursday they plan to take their civil disobedience campaign to Heathrow, Europes busiest airport, at the start of the Easter holiday weekend. The Extinction Rebellion group said it would mount a protest at the airport on Friday. The group vowed

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The robot supermarket shelf scanner and other news

Technology / En Sound Media

BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange was arrested by police in London after Ecuador withdrew his asylum. The first home delivery drone service has been launched in Australia, after years of test flights. Supermarket giant Walmart is to deploy autonomous machines across thousands

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Tiger Woods Celebrates Masters Win With The Sweetest Family Embrace

Sports / En Sound Media

Amid a frenzy of cheers and celebratory chants, a happy Tiger Woods strode off the 18th green after securing his fifth Masters win on Sunday to share the moment with his smallest, but no doubt most ardent, supporters ― his two children. Woods’ 10-year-old son, Charlie, ran into his father’s outstretched arms near the hole and was

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Hospitals Stand to Lose Billions Under ‘Medicare for All’

Politics / En Sound Media

Whether hospitals would be able to adapt to sharply lower payments is unclear. “It would force health care systems to go on a very serious diet,” said Stuart Altman, a health policy professor at Brandeis University. “I have no idea what would happen. Nor does anyone else.” But proponents should not expect to save as

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Treasury Issues Rules on Tax Breaks for Opportunity Zones

Finance / En Sound Media

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration released regulations on Wednesday that could help venture capitalists, Native American tribes and entrepreneurs benefit from a new tax incentive meant to encourage investment in struggling communities. Backers of that incentive, known as Opportunity Zones, had complained to the administration in recent weeks that its regulations could end up steering

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Sore knee? Maybe you have a fabella

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

Image copyright Imperial College London Image caption The arrow on the scan shows where the fabella is – behind the knee A little bone in the knee scientists thought was being lost to evolution seems to be making a comeback, say experts from Imperial College London. The fabella is found in some people buried in

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George Alagiah’s ‘guilt’ over disabled toilet use

Entertainment / En Sound Media

George Alagiah has spoken of his guilt at having to use disabled toilets while having no visible disability. The BBC newsreader, who has stage four bowel cancer, used the facilities in the past because of having a stoma bag attached to his stomach. When disabled people saw him using the toilets he would feel the

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