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By Charlotte Kristensen For You Magazine Published: 07:01 EST, 24 February 2024 | Updated: 07:01 EST, 24 February 2024 A subtly sparkling elixir made from fermented tea, kombucha is believed to have originated in China as far back as 220BC. Now a supermarket staple, it’s also still handcrafted in small batches. With minimal sugar and less than 0.5% alcohol, it’s healthy too. Try these… Plants Kombucha Apple & Elderflower, £2.20, Waitrose.From health powerhouse Deliciously Ella, this delightfully refreshing tipple is a blend of granny smith apple and delicate florals Remedy Kombucha Wild Berry Drink,4 x 330ml, £5.50, Tesco.From a husband and wife…
Listen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here.This week, The New York Times published news of the death of Charles V. Hamilton, the political scientist who co-wrote the book Black Power in 1967 with his much more famous colleague and comrade, Kwame Ture, once known as Stokely Carmichael. Hamilton died months ago, and the news was apparently made public only after a close friend of Hamilton’s was notified by his bank.…
Duran Duran bassist Andy Taylor has praised King Charles for revealing his cancer diagnosis, saying the Royal’s honesty will save ‘millions of lives’.The musician is currently battling stage four prostate cancer and is two-thirds of the way through his latest ground-breaking treatment.Andy turned 63 on Friday, which will be his first birthday outside of the initial five-year life expectancy he was given after his diagnosis, which he credits to the advancement in medical science.Andy believes Charles will also profit from the same benefits and says being open about his condition will encourage others, particularly men, to do likewise.Speaking exclusively to…
Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage.Donald Trump has made no secret of the fact that he regards his party’s position on reproductive rights as a political liability. He blamed the “abortion issue” for his party’s disappointing showing in the 2022 midterms, and he recently blasted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s support for a six-week abortion ban. Trump seems eager to be the Republican who can turn this loser of a political issue into a winner.And we’ve just gotten a peek at how he plans to do it. Last week, The New York Times reported that…
A woman has been forced to forgo her Taylor Swift Eras experience after being offered a life-saving kidney transplant.On her way to Swift’s Sydney show on Friday, Queensland mother Tamara Gray received a life-changing phone call.‘I got a call from the hospital saying they had a kidney,’ she told 9News.The 35-year-old, who had been listed for a kidney transplant, never anticipated receiving a donation while on the way to Gold Coast Airport to catch her plane to the Sydney.‘I won’t lie, there was a split second that I considered saying no [to the kidney], but, you know, I’m not crazy,’ she…
This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here.Several years ago, the political scientist Michael Bang Petersen, who is based in Denmark, wanted to understand why people share conspiracy theories on the Internet. He and other researchers designed a study that involved showing American participants blatantly false stories about Democratic and Republican politicians, such as Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump. The subjects were asked: Would you share these stories online?The results seemed to defy the logic of modern politics or polarization. “There were…
By Nicholas Finch For Nca Newswire Published: 00:42 EST, 24 February 2024 | Updated: 00:44 EST, 24 February 2024 Thousands of Australians insured under Medibank are getting $50 back in their pockets under a $215m return to customers following the Covid-19 pandemic.All eligible customers will receive at least $50, though some could potentially get up to $360 back thanks to their level of coverage.‘On average it will be around $55 for extras only policies and around $165 for hospital and extras policies,’ Medibank said.All Medibank holders who have an active hospital and/or extras policy on June 30 will qualify for…
Listen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.Near the end of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments about whether Colorado could exclude former President Donald Trump from its ballot as an insurrectionist, the attorney representing voters from the state offered a warning to the justices—one evoking the January 6 riot that had set the case in motion.By this point in the hearing, the justices had made clear that they didn’t like the idea of allowing a single state to kick Trump out of the presidential race, and they didn’t appear comfortable with the Court doing…
The shock waves hitting the House of Windsor this year have been relentless, not least among them the news that King Charles has been diagnosed with cancer.So it was heartening to see him meeting Rishi Sunak at Buckingham Palace this week, getting on with his job. Discussions between them turned to the importance of raising awareness for cancer charities and the Prime Minister commented on how well the King looked.Rishi wasn’t the only one who thought so. The King’s appearance was a reassuring message of hope. He hadn’t lost his hair, as some of us feared, as a result of…
Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-nominated film illustrates how war can destroy that most precious of things—the innocence of a child’s soul.Studio GhibliFebruary 23, 2024, 12:45 PM ETOnce, in a windowless conference room, I got into an argument with a minor Japanese-government official about Hayao Miyazaki. This was in 2017, three years after the director had announced his latest retirement from filmmaking. His final project was supposed to be 2013’s The Wind Rises, a World War II movie about a man who loves building airplanes but struggles to accept the destruction they bring. The official was glowering, talking into his coffee cup about…