Hank Azaria says he feels the need to apologize to ‘every single Indian person in this country’ for voicing Apu in The Simpsons. In an interview with the Armchair Expert podcast, Azaria has said the character show had contributed to ‘structural racism’ and that he hadn’t known any better during the nearly 30 years he … Read more
Competition for mates between prehistoric human women may have contributed to ‘concealed ovulation’ – a lack of any notable physical clues that a woman is fertile, experts say. Using computational models, US researchers found evidence that concealed ovulation in humans – which is generally unusual in the animal kingdom – evolved to allow women to hide their … Read more
Prehistoric competition among human females contributed to ‘concealed ovulation’ – a lack of any notable physical clues that a woman is fertile, experts say. Using computational models, US researchers found evidence that concealed ovulation evolved to allow females to hide their fertility status from other females. This would have helped avoid female conflict, perhaps driven by aggression … Read more
The words of Alan Garner’s widow, Sylvia, say it all: ‘Football has robbed me of my husband, my children of their father and my grandchildren of their grandad.’ On Tuesday, grieving members of the former Luton and Watford defender’s family attended Alan’s inquest. That it was held via videolink, because of Covid, was not the … Read more
Averil Hart, 19, (pictured) started her first term at the University of East Anglia in September 2012 The death of a teenage university student with anorexia could have been avoided and was contributed to by neglect, an inquest has concluded. Averil Hart, 19, who was a black belt in karate and academically gifted, started her … Read more
Averil Hart, 19, (pictured) started her first term at the University of East Anglia in September 2012 The death of a teenage university student with anorexia could have been avoided and was contributed to by neglect, an inquest has concluded. Averil Hart, 19, who was a black belt in karate and academically gifted, started her … Read more
Malin Andersson has told how she believes the physical abuse her ex-boyfriend Tom Kemp subjected her to while she was pregnant was a factor behind her daughter’s death at just one month old. The former Love Island star, 28, who gave birth to daughter Consy in December 2018, revealed Kemp ‘slapped and punched’ her while … Read more
The RMS Titanic may have only taken the exact fateful course that saw it holed and sunk by an iceberg on April 15, 1912 because a solar flare threw off the vessel’s compass readings, a study has proposed. According to a US-based meteorologist, the liner’s last night sailing the Atlantic was illuminated by the aurora borealis — … Read more
A controversial campaign rally held by President Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last month likely contributed to a rise in the number of coronavirus cases there, a top local health official said on Wednesday. Tulsa has confirmed hundreds of new cases of COVID-19 over the past two days, said Dr. Bruce Dart, health director for … Read more