Memory, Identity & The Past Memory is very crucial for functioning in this world. Without memory it will be very difficult for us to operate effectively in the world. We require past knowledge to carry out our day to day activities. Where is the supermarket located? Have I already bought milk for the week? How…
Manchester is yet again shaken by a traumatic incident after a terrorist attack on a synagogue by Jihad al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent, wearing what appeared to be an explosive vest armed with a knife. Two victims were killed, one by friendly fire from the police, who also shot the attacker. The city…
Another USA government shutdown has started with the prospect (at the minimum) of lay-offs – 750,000 federal employees expected to be placed on enforced leave, with pay withheld until they return to work, essential workers like military and border agents may be forced to work without pay, parks will be closed, rubbish pile up and…
Conservationist Dame Jane Goodall, a world-leading expert on chimpanzees, has died aged 91. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio said that she “inspired millions to care, to act, and to hope”, and called her a “a true hero for the planet”. Biologist Stephen Jay Gould said her discoveries “revolutionised science” and Roger Fouts, a psychologist who studies the…
Patricia Crowther, known as the “high priestess of the Moon Goddess”, and considered the spiritual heir to Gerald Gardner, the founding father of modern Wicca, has died at 97. She made it her mission to dispel myths about witches and their practices. “Witchcraft simply means the craft of the wise people.” She was adamant that…
Julie Andrews, is an amazing 90 today – ‘crisply accented, sweetly tuneful and girlish in her most famous movie musicals, but always with a sense of humour about her angelic image.’ She won the 1965 Oscar for playing a “practically perfect” English nanny for Walt Disney and mischievously drove around Los Angeles with a “Mary…
Emma Watson, Hermione in the Harry Potter films, and more recently in Beauty and the Beast and Little Women, has caused some merriment by taking to the public airwaves to announce she was giving up acting because she disliked the attention it attracted. Shades of Prince Harry. She has also been getting skewered by…
Nicole Kidman and her husband musician Keith Urban are to split as their marriage heads for the 20 year mark. They have been kept apart recently with her back-to-back filming and his touring schedules; with some speculation about her recent daring roles ‘with some of the kinkiest sex scenes of her career’ perhaps causing problems…
Larry Ellison, a giant of the tech world, co-founder of Oracle, now doubling his fortune via AI, is expanding in a worrisome fashion along with his son David into buying vast expanses of the US media – from TikTok’s US assets, to Paramount, preparing bid for Warner Brothers Discovery as well as HBO and CNN,…
Selena Gomez, actress, singer, owner of a $2 billion cosmetics company and the most-followed woman on Instagram, married record producer Benny Blanco yesterday in California. Born 22 July 1992 7.19 am Grand Prairie, Texas, she has had it tough with split parents, a poor childhood and multiple health problems in her adult life ranging from…
