Interactive: Know your garden bird song
Listen to our garden birds audio interactive to learn to identify species by their songPaddy Allen
Painting, once thought a da Vinci, sells for $1.5 million
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – A painting by a follower of Leonardo da Vinci, which was once thought to be done by the Renaissance master himself, sold at auction for $1.5 million, three times its estimate price.
Swedish author Larsson’s legacy under attack
STOCKHOLM (Reuters Life!) – Former colleagues of best-selling crime fiction author Stieg Larsson have caused a furor in Sweden by questioning his talent as a writer and casting public doubt on whether he penned his books alone.
‘Overweight’ senior citizens live longer
People in their 70s who are classed as overweight live longer than those thought to be a healthy weight, researchers say. While people who are moderately overweight seem to live the longest, being very overweight (obese) or being underweight is linked to the worst impact on people’s lifespan. What do we know already? Working out [...]
Film-makers uncover lost source of Roman aqueduct
ROME (Reuters Life!) – Two British film-makers believe they have solved a mystery that has foxed archaeologists for centuries: the source of a 1,900-year-old aqueduct which supplied the ancient city of Rome and even the early Vatican.
How to embellish a jumper with beads
Sally Cameron Griffiths has given up buying new clothes for a year. Instead she’ll be altering her existing wardrobe, starting with a plain black jumperI love clothes, but I’ve given up buying new ones for a year. My reasons are similar to my colleague Patrick Barkham’s: shrink my carbon footprint, save money, and stop buying [...]
Lucky Heather: why a Mills biopic looks increasingly likely | Stuart Heritage
Last year she danced on ice. Now it looks like the former Mrs Macca may realise her dream of being immortalised on film – courtesy of Reese WitherspoonYou may think that, because she’s proved to be slightly better at ice skating than Bobby Davro, the social rehabilitation of Heather Mills is now complete. But that’s [...]
Prokofiev’s “War and Peace” original critical hit
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – An original version of Sergei Prokofiev’s opera “War and Peace,” brought to the stage in a joint Scottish-Russian collaboration, has had its world premiere to critical acclaim in Scotland.
The Books Podcast: JD Salinger, the Apple iPad and Barbara Ehrenreich
Reading listThe Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (Hamish Hamilton)For Esme – With Love and Squalor by JD Salinger (Hamish Hamilton)Smile Or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich (Granta)A Scattering by Christopher Re…
Homeopathy: At 10:23 tomorrow we will prove there’s nothing in it | Martin Robbins
Hundreds of homeopathy sceptics around the UK are stocking up on pills ready to take overdoses at 10:23 tomorrow. Martin Robbins explains why he is one of themTomorrow, I plan to travel to the centre of London where I will take a huge overdose – in public – consuming an entire bottle of pills. I [...]