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Genetic handedness

BBC News: Gene for left-handedness is found. Scientists have discovered the first gene which appears to increase the odds of being left-handed. The Oxford University-led team believe carrying the gene may also slightly raise the risk of developing psychotic mental illness such as schizophrenia. The gene, LRRTM1, appears to play

The Beast of Dartmoor

BBC News: Mystery surrounds 'big cat' photo. A photograph of an animal taken on Dartmoor is "almost certainly" not a big cat, according to a local expert. The picture was taken by falconer Martin Whitley, who stumbled across the creature by accident near Hound Tor. The

Cheese mines of Wales

BBC News: Cheddar matures 300ft down mine. Big Pit, Wales' working mine museum, is lending its mine shafts to a firm creating a Welsh cheddar cheese. A Blaenavon company which makes four types of cheddar says the temperature 90m (300ft) underground is ideal for its 40kg (90lb) blocks of

Cupboard for sale

BBC News: 'Table-sized flat' for Â£170,000. A flat roughly the size of a snooker table has gone on sale for Â£170,000 [$340,000] in London's upmarket Chelsea. The former janitor's storeroom measures 11ft by 7ft and has a cupboard place

A nice hot cup of tea

BBC News: Black tea 'soothes away stress'. Scientists have evidence behind what many tea drinkers already know - a regular cuppa can help you recover more quickly from everyday life stresses. The study of black tea - instead of green or herbal varieties - found it helps cut

Plane old recycling

BBC News: Where old aeroplanes go to die. It was 38 years ago this weekend that the 747, the "jumbo jet", first rolled out of a factory in Everett, Washington State. It was famous for one thing - being big - and phrases like "the size of

Right-sized fashion

This is extraordinary sensible. BBC News: Madrid bans waifs from catwalk. Madrid fashion week, one of Spain's most prestigious shows, is banning underweight models on the basis of their body mass index (BMI). UN health experts recommend a BMI of between 18.5 and about 25, and some

Blogging without breaks

Wall Street Journal: No day at the beach. In the height of summer-holiday season, bloggers face the inevitable question: to blog on break or put the blog on a break? Fearing a decline in readership, some writers opt not to take vacations. Others keep posting while on location, to the

High heels and hospitals

BBC News: Experts warn of high-heel danger. Women are paying the price for fashion in the form of broken bones and sprained ankles, a doctor has warned. The warm weather has led to a spate of injuries caused by women falling from their high-heeled sandals. Rupert Evans, an accident and

War of the Windows

BBC News: Web perils advise switch to Macs. Security threats to PCs with Microsoft Windows have increased so much that computer users should consider using a Mac, says a leading security firm. Sophos security said that the 10 most commonly found pieces of malicious software all targeted Windows machines. In

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