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In 1993, my best friend and his father died in a car crash. I was 16, and it was hard to take. Your song Dreams seemed to help us make some sense of it. What inspired you to write it? TopperJKIt started as a poem about how every time I took a step closer to my dreams of singing and writing songs, they seemed to move further out of my grasp. There were various incidents. When I was singing covers in a club someone told me I’d never amount to anything more. When I was unemployed a guy saw that my middle name was Gabrielle…

For Michel Talagrand, who won the Abel mathematics prize on Wednesday, maths provided a fun life free from all constraints – and an escape from the eye problems he suffered as a child. "Maths, the more you do it, the easier it gets," the 72-year-old said in an interview with AFP. He is the fifth French Abel winner since the award was created by Norway's government in 2003 to compensate for the lack of a Nobel prize in mathematics. Talagrand's career in functional analysis and probability theory saw him tame some of the…

Last Updated: March 20, 2024, 14:23 ISTUP Man's Car Turned 'Chopper' Seized, Understand What is Section 207 Of Motor Vehicle Act? (Photo: Zee News)Discover how a man from Uttar Pradesh landed in trouble for modifying his car to look like a chopper and violating the Motor Vehicle Act.Police in Uttar Pradesh have halted the ambitious plans of a local resident in Ambedkar Nagar who ingeniously transformed a car into a makeshift helicopter!Ishwar Deen, the innovative creator, invested over two-and-a-half lakh rupees into his…

Film-makers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy have a restless creativity and alertness to ideas which continues to be uniquely valuable. Now they have made a vivid, intense, true-crime drama about the inner life of the late Rose Dugdale, the wealthy English heiress and debutante who was radicalised at Oxford, joined the IRA and in the early 70s was involved in an art theft from a stately home in the Irish republic – and also helped drop homemade bombs from a stolen helicopter on to a police station.Baltimore should really…

A Florida man’s agonizing migraines turned out to have a terrifying cause: actual brainworms. In a recent case study, his doctors describe how he developed a parasitic infestation of tapeworm eggs in his brain, possibly caught from eating undercooked bacon. Thankfully, the man was successfully treated.The M3 MacBook Airs are as Good as Ever, and That’s the ProblemThe strange medical tale was detailed last week in the American Journal of Case Reports. It was written by doctors from the University of South Florida and the…

The English musician accepted, along with his bandmates, an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) medal, but he returned it in 1969 “in protest against Britain’s involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against ‘Cold Turkey’ slipping down the charts.”The “Nigeria-Biafra thing” he mentioned in the letters he sent to Queen Elizabeth, the Prime Minister, and Central Chancery refers to the Nigerian Civil War. Meanwhile, “Cold Turkey” is a song that John wrote in 1969,…

Shifting from giant accelerators 26 km (16 miles) across to brain surgery theaters, a particle detector first developed by physicists at CERN is being used by scientists in Germany to treat brain tumors with greater precision and safety.Destroying head and neck tumors is relatively simple. You dose them with the right chemicals or blast them with powerful enough radiation, and job done. The problem is figuring out how to kill the cancer cells without killing the patient.One effective way of treating such tumors is by…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeVinnie Jones has said he turned down the chance to reprise his X-Men character Juggernaut in the upcoming Deadpool and Wolverine film in part due to the “mental toll” of wearing the character’s suit.The former footballer, 59, first played Juggernaut in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand.In that film, he faced off against Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, who is returning for the new Deadpool…

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Neutron experiments helped reveal the one-carbon enzymatic mechanism that synthesizes vital food sources for cancer cells that depend on vitamin B6, providing key insights into designing novel drugs to slow the spread of aggressive cancers. Credit: Jill Hemman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of EnergyScientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are advancing cancer treatment research by designing drugs that target the metabolic pathways cancer cells rely on for growth. By mapping the structure of a key enzyme with neutrons and X-rays,…