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Jocelyn Wildenstein’s was the face that launched a thousand trout pouts

For decades, Jocelyn Wildenstein – who has died, aged 84 disputed the obvious fact of her facial work. As recently as last August, she told a tabloid: “I haven’t had plastic surgery – I’m scared of what can happen and I don’t like to have something heavy.” A statement carrying all the conviction of a small child protesting they haven’t …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Who wants a pig organ? Patients sick and tired of waiting years for a transplant

India Today

LOUISVILLE, Ky. : The calls and emails started coming into NYU Langone Health and Massachusetts General Hospital soon after doctors began experimenting with pig organs in humans. “I think it’s worth the shot.” Now two U.S. companies aim to begin the world’s first clinical trials of xenotransplantation in 2025 – using pig kidneys or hearts to try to save human …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Tired of long organ waitlists, these patients are hopeful for a pig organ transplant

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The calls and emails started coming into NYU Langone Health and Massachusetts General Hospital soon after doctors began experimenting with pig organs in humans. Pig kidney recipient Towana Looney sits with transplant surgeon Dr. Jayme Locke on Dec. 10, 2024, at NYU Langone Health, in New York City. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit …

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1 month ago

Naked baboons and bloodthirsty sharks? Why not? says ‘Gladiator II’ VFX team

LA Times

With “Gladiator II,” Ridley Scott returns to the bloody world of his Oscar-winning swords-and-sandals epic. “He’s nuts,” Bakowski says with a laugh via Zoom, about the English director. Yet “Gladiator” still loomed large in the eyes of all involved — especially when it came to redesigning the film’s most iconic location: the Colosseum. He would roll for minutes upon minutes …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘We are not Disneyland’: Outrage in Rome over Airbnb ‘gladiator’ battles at the Colosseum

CNN

For travel tips, recipes and more insight on Italian culture, sign up for CNN’s Unlocking Italy newsletter. On one side of the arena is holiday rental giant Airbnb and the Colosseum Archaeological Park, which oversees the ruined structure, which is one of Rome’s most visited attractions. “But to avoid a demeaning use of our historical-artistic heritage, especially when it comes …

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1 year ago

Jim Jordan flees as Marjorie Greene launches into Hunter Biden sex trafficking rant: watch

Raw Story

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene interrupted Reps. James Comer and Jim Jordan on Wednesday as they tried to make the case to reporters that President Joe Biden had improperly benefited from his son's overseas business dealings. As Comer rehashed claims that there was something nefarious about Hunter Biden repaying his father for a loan that he'd made so that he could …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Furious Trump slams gag order ruling for stopping him 'telling the truth'

Raw Story

Former President Donald Trump reacted with fury after the D.C. Court of Appeals upheld Judge Tanya Chutkan's gag order against him in the 2020 election case — and he took to Truth Social to claim that it is preventing him from "telling the truth." "An Appeals Court has just largely upheld the Gag Order against me in the ridiculous J6 …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Mystery origin of Egypt’s mummified baboons finally cracked | Explained

The Hindu

In 1905, Louis Lortet and Claude Gaillard travelled from France to Luxor, an Egyptian city on the banks of the river Nile, to investigate the discovery of mummified monkeys in Gabbanat el-Qurud, a.k.a. Following suit, Dr. Kopp and her team obtained DNA samples from 14 baboon specimens preserved in museums between 1855 and 1978, and one mummified sample from Gabbanat …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Erotic images vanish from Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Facebook page after Raw Story questions

Raw Story

Several sexually explicit images disappeared from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s campaign Facebook page following questions about them from Raw Story. Asked by Raw Story if Greene’s staff or Facebook removed the images, Nick Dyer, Greene’s deputy chief of staff, said, “I suppose they did. RELATED ARTICLE: Baboons, self-owns and smut: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Facebook page is a hot mess …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Baboons, self-owns and smut: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Facebook page is a hot mess

Raw Story

A year later, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is still learning a hard lesson about basic social media safety. Screen grab from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Facebook Another was a screen grab of a social media post with the picture of Greene and the words, “If you’ve ever seen monkeys in the zoo, you’ll recognize the face they make before they …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will

LA Times

After studying humans and other primates for 40 years, Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky has concluded that many factors beyond our control influence our choices and behaviors, leaving free will to be negligible in any context. “Determined,” which comes out today, builds on Sapolsky’s 2017 bestseller “Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst,” which won the Los Angeles …

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1 year, 3 months ago

‘Zoo poo’ could save NHS £1bn a year

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Prof Stafford, who is chairman of molecular microbiology at the University of Sheffield, said: …

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1 year, 4 months ago

In rural Zimbabwe, a group of grandmothers counters alleged election intimidation, bias on WhatsApp

Associated Press

DOMBOSHAVA, Zimbabwe — Four grandmothers wearing bright yellow headscarves, T-shirts and skirts huddled around a cellphone in Zimbabwe’s rural Domboshava area. With a swish and a click, 64-year-old Elizabeth Mutandwa posted the video on a couple of community WhatsApp groups, and followed it up with some election campaign information from the party she supports in next week’s election — the …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Man rides with wife, 5 children as pillion passengers on bike, video is viral

India TV News

How many people can be accommodated on a two-wheeler -- 2, 3 or 5! Well, a video has surfaced showing a man riding a bike with 7 people on board. The man was seen riding the bike with seven family members on a two-wheeler, posing a risk for himself as well as others on the road. When people noticed the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Lone baboon fights 20 wild dogs all by itself. Watch

Hindustan Times

Videos that capture interactions of various animals in the wild. One such video was recently posted on the official Facebook page of Latest Sightings that shows a baboon fighting bravely with twenty wild dogs. Most of the baboons scattered at the sight of the wild dogs, but to their surprise, one brave baboon stood his ground. Take a look at …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Baboons navigate a bridge to dodge lions. Can they outsmart the big cats?

Hindustan Times

A video of a few baboons hiding underneath a bridge to save themselves from a pride of lions has intrigued people. Shared on the official YouTube channel of the Latest Sightings, the video shows how the baboons outsmart the big cats. At one point, one of the baboons gathers some courage to climb on top of the bridge but as …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Childhood trauma can be healed through adult friendships, even in baboons: Study

Hindustan Times

Years of studies have demonstrated that having traumatic experiences as a child, such as having an alcoholic parent or growing up in a chaotic home, increases your chances of having poorer health and a lower chance of surviving. Drawing on 36 years of data, a new study of nearly 200 baboons in southern Kenya finds that adversity early in life …

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2 years, 7 months ago

How Elizabeth became Queen watching baboons at sunrise from Kenyan treetops

The Independent

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2 years, 11 months ago

How Elizabeth became Queen watching baboons at sunrise from Kenyan treetops

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Princess Elizabeth was watching baboons while taking photographs of the …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Police place baboon cutouts to solve monkey menace at Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre

India Today

To counter the monkey menace in a covid care centre in Chhatarpur, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police placed cutouts of baboons. The arrangements were implemented at the Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre, which has a 500-bed capacity. POLICE PLACE BABOON CUTOUTS TO COUNTER MONKEY MENACE The monkeys have been roaming around the centre and causing menace in the past few days. …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Male baboons live longer if they have more female friends, new research finds

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Male baboons live longer if they have more female friends. Pairs of female baboons, on …

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4 years, 3 months ago

South African Baboon Put in Jail For Invading and Raiding Homes for Food

News 18

Kataza already had a lengthy rap sheet with Cape Town authorities, so when he organized a band of others to raid a series of suburban homes, he was captured. Kataza is a baboon, one of a few hundred urban baboons who live around Cape Town and are often a nuisance when they invade properties looking for food. Kataza’s story is …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Watching animals helps. A lot. Here are the best webcams

LA Times

The San Diego Zoo Safari Park is closed for a while, but you can still watch koalas by webcam. You also can gaze at a view of Monterey Bay from the aquarium’s deck, and watch African penguins waddle around their habitat. Enjoy wildlife at the zoo San Diego Zoo Safari Park One of the best webcams at the park focuses …

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4 years, 10 months ago

Baboons on loose after escaping medical research facility

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A runaway baboon “and his …

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Jocelyn Wildenstein’s was the face that launched a thousand trout pouts

Who wants a pig organ? Patients sick and tired of waiting years for a transplant

Tired of long organ waitlists, these patients are hopeful for a pig organ transplant

Naked baboons and bloodthirsty sharks? Why not? says ‘Gladiator II’ VFX team

‘We are not Disneyland’: Outrage in Rome over Airbnb ‘gladiator’ battles at the Colosseum

Jim Jordan flees as Marjorie Greene launches into Hunter Biden sex trafficking rant: watch

Furious Trump slams gag order ruling for stopping him 'telling the truth'

Mystery origin of Egypt’s mummified baboons finally cracked | Explained

Erotic images vanish from Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Facebook page after Raw Story questions

Baboons, self-owns and smut: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Facebook page is a hot mess

Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will

‘Zoo poo’ could save NHS £1bn a year

In rural Zimbabwe, a group of grandmothers counters alleged election intimidation, bias on WhatsApp

Man rides with wife, 5 children as pillion passengers on bike, video is viral

Lone baboon fights 20 wild dogs all by itself. Watch

Baboons navigate a bridge to dodge lions. Can they outsmart the big cats?

Childhood trauma can be healed through adult friendships, even in baboons: Study

How Elizabeth became Queen watching baboons at sunrise from Kenyan treetops

How Elizabeth became Queen watching baboons at sunrise from Kenyan treetops

Police place baboon cutouts to solve monkey menace at Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre

Male baboons live longer if they have more female friends, new research finds

South African Baboon Put in Jail For Invading and Raiding Homes for Food

Watching animals helps. A lot. Here are the best webcams

Baboons on loose after escaping medical research facility