Lifting the lid on Japan’s amazing bento boxes
Miki Okamura Miki Okamura describes the duty of making lunch boxes as “the most important job as a mother” (Credit: Miki Okamura) Working mums have it tough in Japan – creating Instagram-worthy, healthy lunches is one of many pressures they say they face Each year, five billion lunch boxes are made at home in Japan. […]
Father’s Day: How Chris Adams has inspired his daughters to take up cricket
Mollie has also already ticked representing Sussex off the family checklist. “When Georgia used to play club cricket at Horsham, I remember saying I want to do that,” says Mollie. “I was too young to watch my dad play so it’s all come from Georgia and now it’s about me going out there and replicating […]
The low-cost mini satellites bringing mobile to the world
Sky and Space Global Arrays of tiny satellites will bring mobile services to billions who currently have no access Large chunks of the planet are still of out of reach of mobile phone signals – billions are still without access to digital communications. But this could change thanks to shrinking satellite sizes and costs. Lower-cost, […]
How your workplace is killing you
Getty Images The modern workplace can inflict dangerous levels of stress on employees. Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of Dying for a Paycheck, argues that these practices don’t help companies – and warns governments are ignoring an emerging public health crisis. In 2015, an analysis of almost 300 studies found that harmful workplace practices were as bad […]
Lolita star Sue Lyon dies aged 73
Getty Images Sue Lyon, who played the title character in Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 film Lolita, has died aged 73. The US actress, who was 14 when she starred in the screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. Her death was confirmed to The New York Times by her friend […]
Satellite links to optimise European airspace
Getty Images The European Space Agency and London’s Inmarsat company are moving to the next phase of their project to improve the efficiency of European airspace. The pair’s Iris programme would see air traffic controllers route planes via robust and secure satellite data links. At the moment, this management involves VHF radio voice messages – […]
Women regret casual sex less if they take the initiative
Getty Images Young women regret casual sex less if they take the initiative and the sex was good, according to a new study. Previous research has found that in general women regret one-night stands more than men. But researchers interviewed 547 Norwegian and 216 American university students, all of them heterosexual. The answers suggested that […]
The deadly germ warfare island abandoned by the Soviets
Alamy The Aralkum Desert is covered in a layer of toxic, salty dust (Credit: Alamy) During the Cold War, Vozrozhdeniya Island was a top-secret testing ground for deadly Soviet super-pathogens. Despite over two decades of abandonment, their legacy lives on. On the Kazakh-Uzbek border, surrounded by miles of toxic desert, lies an island. Or at […]
Women’s Super League: Fairytale farewell for Chelsea’s ‘pivotal’ captain Magdalena Eriksson
Whether Magdalena Eriksson will lift another Women’s Super League title is still yet to be seen but the Chelsea captain has already completed the “fairytale” ending. After six seasons with the club, winning 11 trophies along the way, Eriksson waved farewell to Chelsea supporters in their final home game of the season against rivals Arsenal. […]
Digital lessons for elderly by school kids ‘fabulous’
Primary school children have been giving lessons in selfie-taking, using apps and searching the internet to residents at a care home. Pupils aged between nine and 11 from Ysgol Coed y Gof visited Plas Bryn Care Home in Cardiff. Maggie, nine, said: “It’s really fun to teach people to use technology instead of people helping […]