Why too many young men love Andrew Tate and why we need to understand that, not dismiss it | Sas

 Posted on April 2, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1071 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

OpinionAndrew Tate This article is more than 10 months oldWhy too many young men love Andrew Tate – and why we need to understand that, not dismiss itThis article is more than 10 months oldSasha MistlinMy cousin was one of the young men drawn in by the social media star’s mix of motivational messages and toxic sexism I have a teenage cousin who loves Andrew Tate. This became an issue recently when he posted one of his videos in the family WhatsApp group and I was dispatched by my mum to “have a chat” with him. [Read More]

Americans were horrified to be told to live like Europeans. Is it longer life expectancy they mind?

 Posted on April 1, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  768 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

OpinionUS news This article is more than 2 years oldAmericans were horrified to be told to live like Europeans. Is it longer life expectancy they mind?This article is more than 2 years oldArwa MahdawiAn article suggesting US citizens could learn something from a Europe racked, it said, by goods shortages has caused predictable outrage on both sides. But not all is better stateside I do hope European readers are going to be able to access this article. [Read More]

Curtain rises on Gielgud's gay scandal | Stage

 Posted on April 1, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  702 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The ObserverStage This article is more than 15 years oldCurtain rises on Gielgud's gay scandalThis article is more than 15 years oldCritic's play shows how the famous actor's arrest was part of the 1950s homosexual witch-huntsThe scandal that almost ended the career of Sir John Gielgud is to be brought to the London stage this month in a new play about the actor. In the autumn of 1953 the newly knighted actor was at the height of his fame and about to direct himself in a prestigious West End production when he was arrested in a public lavatory in Chelsea. [Read More]

Doctor jailed for secretly filming patients as they used the toilet | UK news

 Posted on April 1, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1060 words  |  Aldo Pusey

UK news This article is more than 9 years oldDoctor jailed for secretly filming patients as they used the toiletThis article is more than 9 years oldDr Lam Hoe Yeoh sentenced to eight years after police discover 1,100 images and video footage of victims as young as threeA doctor who used a network of hidden cameras to record patients, friends and colleagues on the toilet has been jailed for eight years. [Read More]

Friends, Romans, naked wolf-men ... why an ancient festival is still controversial

 Posted on April 1, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1005 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The past and the curiousScienceThe annual Lupercalia festival turned society upside down – and the location of its starting point is still hotly debated Scenes from films like Gladiator and series such as HBO’s Rome might lead you to think that the ancient Romans were liberal in their view of nudity. In fact the opposite was true. It was only during exceptional occasions that Romans were freed from their social norms – and the most spectacular occasion was the annual Lupercalia festival. [Read More]

Nature is hurting: Gojira, the metal band confronting the climate crisis | Gojira

 Posted on April 1, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1473 words  |  Valentine Belue

Gojira (from left): Mario Duplantier, Joe Duplantier, Christian Andreu, Jean-Michel Labadie. Photograph: Gabrielle DuplantierGojira (from left): Mario Duplantier, Joe Duplantier, Christian Andreu, Jean-Michel Labadie. Photograph: Gabrielle DuplantierGojiraInterview‘Nature is hurting’: Gojira, the metal band confronting the climate crisisMatt MillsWith stirring songwriting that considers grief, philosophy and ecological collapse, the French quartet have become one of the world’s greatest heavy bands. They discuss their journey so far Joe and Mario Duplantier grew up in a calm idyll – perhaps surprisingly for two of metal’s most forthright rabble-rousers. [Read More]

Silverchair Tomorrow: the song that blew open Australian rock | Music

 Posted on April 1, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  636 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Australian anthemsMusicSilverchair – Tomorrow: the song that blew open Australian rockAustralian anthems: Sophisticated it isn't, but the global success of this tune by teenagers from Newcastle had a massive impact on aspiring Australian musicians Tomorrow is not a complicated song, and it certainly isn’t original. When it was released in 1994, many critics savaged it. To this day, Silverchair’s most ardent fans continue to debate its artistic merits. But Tomorrow deserves recognition nonetheless. [Read More]

The 10 best mathematicians

 Posted on April 1, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1009 words  |  Kary Bruening

The 10 best ...CultureAlex Bellos selects the maths geniuses whose revolutionary discoveries changed our worldPythagoras (circa 570-495BC)Vegetarian mystical leader and number-obsessive, he owes his standing as the most famous name in maths due to a theorem about right-angled triangles, although it now appears it probably predated him. He lived in a community where numbers were venerated as much for their spiritual qualities as for their mathematical ones. His elevation of numbers as the essence of the world made him the towering primogenitor of Greek mathematics, essentially the beginning of mathematics as we know it now. [Read More]

The final cut | | The Guardian

 Posted on April 1, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1443 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The final cutWhat drives healthy men to have themselves castrated? Marina Cantacuzino delves into the bizarre world of cutters, eunuchs and men who hate their testiclesSome people can identify a defining moment in their childhood - an incident that brings an idea to mind which is then indelibly fixed in the psyche. For Gelding - an adopted alias for the American internet guru to all wanna-be eunuchs - that moment came when he was 12 years old and thrown against an older boy in a packed bus. [Read More]

Vincent van Goghs Prisoners Exercising: expressionism at its most despondent | Painting

 Posted on April 1, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  251 words  |  Kary Bruening

Anatomy of an artworkPaintingVincent van Gogh’s Prisoners Exercising: expressionism at its most despondentThe Dutch master depicts his fragile state of mind, trapped and unable to escape routine Going down …This 1890 work needs little explanation. Painted while Van Gogh was heavily depressed and in an asylum in Saint-Rémy, it is expressionism at its most downcast. Right round …The circular trudge of the watched-over men so perfectly captures the mental rat runs the artist felt trapped in; you can almost hear the shuffle-thump of those boots. [Read More]