Posted on June 10, 2024
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The ObserverBiography booksReviewThe Throbbing Gristle co-founder communes with electronic pioneer Delia Derbyshire and 15th-century mystic Margery Kempe in her account of female artists who fought to be heard
First, some introductions. Cosey Fanni Tutti – her name is a pun on the borderline misogynist Mozart opera Così fan tutte (literally “that’s what women do”) – is a multimedia artist who first made her reputation as part of 1970s art collective COUM Transmissions and their sonic heirs, Throbbing Gristle.
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Posted on June 10, 2024
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James Wong on gardensGardening adviceHere are four good ways to help plants withstand outside attacks – all cheap, easy to apply and natural
Plants are amazing things. Tethered to the spot, unable to run or hide from environmental threats, they have instead developed an arsenal of chemical weapons to help shield themselves from the everyday onslaught of the outside world. With a few tips and tricks you can hijack these defence compounds and put them to use with the other plants in your plot to help them withstand almost everything the summer might throw at them.
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Posted on June 10, 2024
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What is a feminist image? A century of female photographers – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A wealth of imagery – from Caribbean schoolgirls and disembodied doll parts to the Nicaraguan revolution – features in this celebration of women behind the camera at New York’s Museum of Modern Art
Main image: Turning the table … Untitled (Woman and Daughter With Makeup), 1990 Photograph: Carrie Mae Weems Thu 11 Aug 2022 07.
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Posted on June 9, 2024
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ResearchAs rare as hen's teeth? Not any more, say scientistsIf you thought hen's teeth were the rarest thing in nature, think again: researchers from Britain and the US have succeeded in growing teeth in a chicken.
Far from being rarer than students who turn up at 9am lectures or lecturers who like giving them, a hen with teeth does occur naturally, scientists based at the universities of Manchester and Wisconsin have found.
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This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the release of In Utero, Nirvana's third and final album. To mark the occasion, test your knowledge of Seattle, Sub Pop, Soundgarden and other things related to grunge that don't start with an S
Posted on June 9, 2024
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| Christie Applegate
John Oliver recapJohn OliverThe Last Week Tonight host explains: Teddy bears ‘are everything that he’s not: cute, lovable, and covered in thick, natural hair all the way around’
John Oliver returned to the Last Week Tonight studio for the first time since spring 2020 on Sunday night, with a segment about Alexander Lukashenko, the unpopular autocratic leader of Belarus facing increasing unrest.
Despite widespread national protests against his nearly 30-year rule over the past year, state-approved exit polls said Lukashenko won a 2020 election with an 80% majority.
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Posted on June 9, 2024
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MetalInterviewSystem of a Down's Serj Tankian: 'If something is true, it should be said'Kevin EG PerrySystem of a Down’s political activism helped change the course of Armenian history. But – facing censorship, assassination threats and a divided band – at what price for its frontman?
Of all the nights Serj Tankian has stood on stage surveying a crowd of 50,000 faces roaring his own words back at him, there is one that the System of a Down frontman will never forget.
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Posted on June 9, 2024
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A cafe in Sydney, Australia. Photograph: Loren Elliott/ReutersFrom the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify
by Kyle ChaykaFor most of the 2010s, I was a religious user of Yelp, an app for finding and reviewing restaurants and other local businesses. The red-and-white interface became a trusted source of recommendations when at home in New York or abroad.
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Posted on June 9, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
Civil rights movementObituaryTom Hayden obituaryCampaigner against injustice and critic of the Vietnam warWhen he was running, unsuccessfully, in the 1990s to be governor of California, Tom Hayden, who has died aged 76, complained ruefully to the Los Angeles Times that his image among the voters of his adopted state could be summed up in just four words: “60s radical Jane Fonda”.
He had been married for 17 years to Fonda, Hollywood royalty and a living symbol of what many loved and more despised about the New Left.
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Posted on June 8, 2024
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Dinosaurs This article is more than 11 years old'Fanged vampire parrot' identified as new species of dinosaurThis article is more than 11 years oldUS palaeontologist Paul Sereno says Pegomastax africanus ate only plants but used unusual teeth to ward off predatorsMuscles, skin, scales and quills are added to a skull cast of a heterodontosaurus, a new species of dinosaur unveiled at the University of Chicago YouTube/UChicagoGiven that it weighed only as much as a domestic cat and probably ate only plants, a new species of dinosaur recently unveiled by an expert at the University of Chicago is not likely to compete with Tyrannosaurus rex in the affections of many dino-fans.
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