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January 29, 2005
Cardboard and Steel, part 4
A beautifully drawn Penny Arcade strip.
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January 24, 2005
BBC Radio now providing on-demand streaming for 95% of shows
It could be that hundreds of thousands of people find the raucous nature of the Chris Moyles show too abrasive for first thing in the morning but just the soundtrack for afternoon tea.
Or maybe they enjoy Moylesy's unique brand of radio presentation so much that they go back to listen to the same shows twice. Either way, an astonishing 350,790 people went online last month to listen to the programme on demand rather than when it was broadcast.
It is one of the many successes of the BBC Radio Player, which will be re-launched tomorrow to make around 95% of the corporation's radio output available after it is transmitted, at any time of the day.
Radio when you want it (The Independent)
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January 20, 2005
Tiny car goes fast
A very funny piece about engine abuse...
The motor was running a little rough (a slight understatement) and we're sure we bent at least one valve, or, more likely, blew the head off of a couple. Guess we should have followed Mark's rules (see sidebar). Needless to say it was the best $19.95 we ever spent. We gassed the Neon back up and limped back to the ever-smiling counterperson.
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January 14, 2005
Wife-and-husband suicide pact
Blackburn said that as his wife's condition worsened, she had kept asking him to do something.
"I told her I could not. She said it was the most loving thing I could do for her."
He said he had put his arms around her for 20 minutes as she died.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Suicide pact husband spared jail
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January 12, 2005
BBC: Volunteers are to undergo torture to see if faith eases pain
Dr Alison Gray, a spokeswoman for the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: "The experience of pain depends on biological factors such as the amount of tissue damage and release of natural pain killers - endorphins - in the brain.
"We know anecdotally that religious believers can tolerate great pain when there is a specific purpose, and I would speculate that this would operate via endorphin release.
"Religious practices such as prayer and meditation release endorphins and would in theory increase the pain threshold.
BBC NEWS | Health | Torture to uncover brain secrets
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January 7, 2005
Benefits of the bubonic plague
This is not the first research to suggest people's genes could determine their susceptibility to HIV/Aids.
One study even suggested that people whose mother and father were both descended from ancestors who survived the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century appeared to be immune to HIV.
Dr Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the research, said: "Individual risk of acquiring HIV and experiencing rapid disease progression is not uniform within populations.
BBC NEWS | Health | Gene determines risk of HIV/Aids
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January 4, 2005
In remembrance of the earthquake victims
Old Man in Sorrow (On the Threshold of Eternity)
Vincent van Gogh
Oil on canvas
81.0 x 65.0 cm.
Saint-Rémy: April-May, 1890
F 702, JH 1967
Otterlo: Kröller-Müller Museum
Vincent van Gogh: Old Man in Sorrow (On the Threshold of Eternity)
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BBC: An act of God?
The sweeping devastation and intense horror wrought by the south Asia tsunami will shake the faith of many "believers". How could a God, or some other force for good, have orchestrated a natural disaster with such dreadful consequences?
Here, believers from the Hindu, Christian, Muslim and Buddhist faiths, and an atheist, explain how they have come to terms with the events in south Asia.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | An act of God?
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