Retail data shows 0.4% month-on-month increase in August, with 0.6% rise in non-foodUK shop prices rose last month, according to the latest data from the British Retail Consortium, in a sign that driver shortages and the costs of Brexit-induced red tap…
パラリンピック アーチェリー 岡崎は準々決勝敗退も5位入賞
東京パラリンピックで、悪天候のため順延されていたアーチェリー、車いすで障害の程度が重い女子個人「W1」の岡崎愛子選手は、準々決勝で中国の選手に129対132で敗れましたが、初めてのパラリンピックで5位に入賞しました。…
Boseが新ノイキャンヘッドフォン「QuietComfort 45」発表、約3万6400円で9月23日発売
米国時間8月31日朝、Boseは相次ぐリーク情報に続き、35 IIの後継モデルとして好評を博しているオーバーイヤーヘッドフォンの最新モデル「QuietComfort 45」を発表した。 Read More
Terrawatch: supercontinents and the search for habitable planets
Models of how the Earth could look in 250m years, with huge land masses and longer days, can help exoplanet huntersIt’s unlikely humans will be around to see it, but in about 250m years Earth’s land masses will have moved together to form the next supe…
The chronic stress survival guide: how to live with the anxiety and grief you can’t escape
Stress can feel like a baseline condition for many of us – especially during a pandemic. But there are ways to help alleviate the very worst of it, whether through support, sleep or radical self-careAt a time when all life’s challenges have been amplif…
The schoolday I’ll never forget: ‘Our teacher broke all the rules and took us for a wild day out’
My school had any number of petty classroom diktats, and there were severe penalties for naughty children. But one day our nature study teacher decided to break freeMy primary school, in the 1950s, was incredibly strict. We lined up when the bell rang …
‘A horn blew when human remains were found’: Wim Wenders’ six hours in the hell of Ground Zero
After 9/11 the director felt haunted by the twin towers attack. As his epic photographs of Ground Zero go on show for the atrocity’s anniversary, he remembers the horrors of that day – and considers its legacyAs a boy growing up in the rubble and ruins…
Afghanistan: MPs to quiz Dominic Raab over ‘worst crisis since Suez’
Foreign secretary faces grilling as Labour says he ‘had 18 months to prepare but was missing in action’Dominic Raab faces a grilling over what has been described as “the biggest failure of foreign policy in a generation” on Wednesday, as the government…
Lake Tahoe ski resort uses snow-making machines to fight wildfire
Staff defending building and equipment turned to repurposed water cannons as huge Caldor fire approachedAs the flames of California’s Caldor fire approached a popular Lake Tahoe-area ski resort, staff used every tool they could to protect the property,…
We can’t build our way out of the environmental crisis | George Monbiot
New infrastructure projects are all the rage, post-pandemic. But who benefits from a rising tide of concrete?Dig for victory: this, repurposed from the second world war, could be the slogan of our times. All over the world, governments are using the pa…