guardian.co.uk Society:
As a mother of three boys, Hannah Evans is used to all the bruises and gashes ... it's just a case of when to go to A&EIt was the marble that got me thinking. A magnetic marble. It should have been whizzing round the track of (Read More)
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They keep our homes warm in style, and are a renewable energy source to boot. What's not to like about wood-burning stoves, asks Dominic Murphy Why buy one? It's potentially carbon neutral. Although burning logs releases CO2, (Read More)
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On the 10th anniversary of Paul Bowles's death, Paul Theroux remembers the writer and traveller who set him on his wayThe Sheltering Sky was Paul Bowles's first novel and, although he honed his art almost to his dying day – n (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
There’s been a lot of negative housing news lately, but some analysts say existing home sales for October, due to be reported Monday morning by the National Association of Realtors, will be strong, partly because buyers lunge (Read More)
Engadget:
Hey, it's Friday, and the Engadget Podcast crew is ready to blow out the week in news live -- and not only is there tech news to talk about, but we've got a hot new site to call home. It's all going down at 6:15PM EST, but th (Read More)
Gizmodo:
We've teamed up with the HD Guru himself, Gary Merson, to publish the absolute best five TVs you can buy right now. As you'll see (and might already notice above), there are some surprises on the list. Panasonic Z1 Panasonic (Read More)
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Google, accused by some as being a book thief, now has company — the Associated Press. The AP patted itself on the back in an internal memo that detailed how it scanned a copy of Sarah Palin’s book without permission, to ma (Read More)
The Guardian:
Author expects criticism of The Pregnant Widow, but insists it's "actually a very feminist book" that shows how his sister fell victim to the sexual revolutionMartin Amis's new novel The Pregnant Widow will explore his belief (Read More)
The Guardian:
Loved by the masses, but loathed by his peers – does Michael McIntyre's conservative humour explain his meteoric rise?Love him, loathe him, have genuinely violent feelings towards him, you just can't ignore Michael McIntyre. (Read More)
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Author expects criticism of The Pregnant Widow, but insists it's "actually a very feminist book" that shows how his sister fell victim to the sexual revolutionMartin Amis's new novel The Pregnant Widow will explore his belief (Read More)
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The subject reliably grabs attention, but the words in a good story are usually getting up to all sorts of other stuffNow then, Best Beloveds: the short story. If we're sensible and care about prose, we will agree that it's a (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
The latest news and best bets in our daily horse racing blog, plus day two of our weekly tipping competitionToday's best bets, by Will HaylerIt's straight down to business today with a number of interesting bets on offer. Fir (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
A handful of Labour MPs turned up on the day after the Queen's speech. And most of them could scarcely be bothered to stand up and ask a question. Nobody believes in this thing. It's not worth the parchment it's written on.Da (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by comparing it with last week's (Read More)
The Guardian:
Sydney nurse Benjamin Gilmour had to win the trust of local tribesmen to make his film, Son of a Lion, about Pashtun identityIf one of the plethora of film award ceremonies had a category for the most insane attempt to make a (Read More)
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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.Beginning Thursday, Yahoo will mine the short messages posted on Twitter to (Read More)
The Guardian:
Half of a key American duo from the golden age of tap-dancingJimmy Clark, who has died aged 87, was the "straight-man" of the renowned tap-dancing Clark Brothers. As the last "brother" tap act from the golden era of swing, Ji (Read More)
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As someone who works hard to get it right in my own novels, I'm very aware of just how difficult it is to depict wellAs the bad sex in fiction award shortlist lined up yesterday, the authors and their publishers scrambled to (Read More)
The Guardian:
The director of Shaun of the Dead, Edgar Wright, is not happy with the Times. Not happy at all. Wright, the long-time collaborator of Simon Pegg who also directed Hot Fuzz and Channel 4's Spaced, wrote a tribute on his blog e (Read More)
The Guardian:
After uncertain beginnings, Scotland's flagship contemporary dance group pulled itself up by the bootstraps and leaped towards worldwide acclaimIn short For years, Scottish Dance Theatre struggled to survive in the isolated a (Read More)