The orgasm gap: can Netflixs new sex ed show revolutionise womens lives?

 Posted on June 5, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1037 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

TelevisionThe Principles of Pleasure shows how sex gives women a worse quality of life than men. Its insightful – and troubling – expert interviews might just change that Sex can often be a disappointment – particularly for women. A recent study from the official publication of the International Academy of Sex Research shows that while gay and straight men climax about during about 85% of their sexual encounters, women having sex with women orgasm about 75% of the time, while women having sex with men come last (literally) at 63%. [Read More]

Costa Concordia captain 'distracted by guests on bridge' | Costa Concordia

 Posted on June 4, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  574 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Costa Concordia This article is more than 12 years oldCosta Concordia captain 'distracted by guests on bridge'This article is more than 12 years oldWitness claims captain's concentration was disturbed by conversation with visitor on bridge at moment of impact The captain of the Costa Concordia was distracted by guests on the bridge when he hit the Italian island of Giglio, according to a witness who claimed Francesco Schettino then played no role in guiding the holed cruise ship into shallow water, instead panicking and going to his cabin. [Read More]

Hes pretty smooth: Glenn Youngkin of Virginia may be a challenger for Trump

 Posted on June 4, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1860 words  |  Christie Applegate

Virginia votesVirginiaRepublican governor is anti-abortion, anti-trans and a ‘nightmare’ for Democrats It looked, sounded and felt like the start of a US presidential campaign. “The stakes are high and the consequences couldn’t be greater,” said Glenn Youngkin in a glossy video that showed the Virginia governor walking in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps at the 40th president’s library in Simi Valley, California, complete with Air Force One and a fragment of the Berlin wall. [Read More]

Natalia Bessmertnova | Art | The Guardian

 Posted on June 4, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  792 words  |  Christie Applegate

ArtObituaryNatalia BessmertnovaOne of the leading dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet for more than 30 yearsFor more than 30 years Natalia Bessmertnova, who has died in Moscow after a long illness aged 66, was one of the leading dancers of Bolshoi Ballet. She will be remembered especially for the roles created for her by her husband, the choreographer Yuri Grigorovich. Some idea of Bessmertnova's qualities can be gained from the attention she attracted during the Bolshoi's visit to London in 1963. [Read More]

Pacific islands warned of possible small tsunamis after earthquake near New Caledonia | Pacific isla

 Posted on June 4, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  300 words  |  Brenda Moya

Pacific islands This article is more than 8 months oldPacific islands warned of possible small tsunamis after earthquake near New CaledoniaThis article is more than 8 months oldChance of waves up to 1 metre in Vanuatu, while under 30cm likely in 25 island groups including Tonga and Tuvalu, US authorities say People across the South Pacific have been told to avoid coastal areas due to the risk of small tsunami waves after a 7. [Read More]

Rami Malek: Being offered the part of Freddie Mercury was a gun-to-the-head moment | Biopics

 Posted on June 4, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2212 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

The ObserverBiopicsInterviewRami Malek: ‘Being offered the part of Freddie Mercury was a gun-to-the-head moment’Tom LamontThe controversial new Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody is dividing opinion. But critics are united in the performance of Rami Malek as the charismatic frontman. Here he tells Tom Lamont why he risked all for the part of Freddie Mercury The Guardian’s product and service reviews are independent and are in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative. [Read More]

Sandra Blow | | The Guardian

 Posted on June 4, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1591 words  |  Brenda Moya

ObituarySandra BlowAbstract painter with an earthy touch, she balanced geometric shapes with a ferment of organic formsSandra Blow, who has died aged 80, found her direction as a painter in 1947, when the Italian abstract artist Alberto Burri became her lover. Burri's life after the war had been sackcloth and ashes, figuratively because he was a prisoner of war of the Americans, literally because under those conditions sackcloth and ashes were the only kinds of materials available to him to make art with. [Read More]

Former Chiefs coach Britt Reid jailed over crash that left girl seriously injured | Kansas City Chie

 Posted on June 3, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  689 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Kansas City Chiefs This article is more than 1 year oldFormer Chiefs coach Britt Reid jailed over crash that left girl seriously injuredThis article is more than 1 year oldReid was speeding and over alcohol limit at time of crashVictim was left with serious brain injuries after collisionFormer Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison for driving drunk and speeding last year. [Read More]

From Sound of Freedom to Ron DeSantis: how QAnons crazy conspiracy theories went mainstream | QAn

 Posted on June 3, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2526 words  |  Delta Gatti

The movement itself may have grown quieter – but its ideas have percolated into public discourse, freed from their ridiculous premise by Colin DickeyIt is the nature of conspiracy theories to turn tragedy into grist, to transform grief and human suffering into an abstract game. The latest horrifying example came out of news late July that Barack Obama’s chef Tafari Campbell had drowned in the waters off Martha’s Vineyard. What was a terrible accident and a tragic loss for Campbell’s family and friends was almost immediately seized upon by the paranoid corners of the internet as proof that somehow Barack and Michelle Obama had been involved in an assassination. [Read More]

Im monomaniacal, I get slightly obsessive: actor Tobias Menzies on tennis, moon landings an

 Posted on June 3, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2483 words  |  Brenda Moya

The ObserverTobias MenziesInterview‘I’m monomaniacal, I get slightly obsessive’: actor Tobias Menzies on tennis, moon landings and people watchingTim LewisTobias Menzies has always relished a challenge, whether it’s playing Prince Philip, or a New York therapist – or just keeping up with Brad Pitt As a child, the British actor Tobias Menzies was a talented junior tennis player. At the beginning of the Covid pandemic, he decided to see if he could get his game back. [Read More]