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The term ultra-processed foods may bring to mind sugary drinks or snacks, but chances are it fits more of the stuff in your fridge than you think. In a conversation from May, Mark Kelley talks to physician Chris van Tulleken about the health impacts.
CBC » The Current with Matt Galloway
- A new study challenges the belief that higher intelligence scores are associated with faster information processing.
- It also reveals a link between problem-solving ability and differences in brain connectivity and synchrony between the frontal and parietal lobes.
- The findings suggest that there is a tradeoff between speed and accuracy in cognitive processes, highlighting the importance of slower and more effortful thinking for solving difficult problems and making better decisions.
Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto ranked in the top 10 according to a long-running Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) latest survey, the Global Liveability Index 2023 ranking of 173 metropolises.
For 2023, the world’s 10 most livable cities according to the EIU are:
- Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹
For the second year, the Austrian capital took the title of world’s most liveable city in the world. - Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰
- Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺
- Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
- Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦
- Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭
- Calgary, Canada 🇨🇦
- Geneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭
- Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
- Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵 and Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿 (tie)
Least liveable of the cities ranked include Douala, Cameroon; Kyiv, Ukraine; Harare, Zimbabwe; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; Karachi, Pakistan; Lagos, Nigeria; Algiers, Algeria; Tripoli, Libya; Damascus, Syria.
Read the report » Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Global Liveability Index 2023
June is National Indigenous History Month and on June 21, for National Indigenous Peoples Day, we recognize and celebrate the history, heritage, resilience and diversity of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis across Canada.
The Guardian » Leshie Chandrapala is one of the hundreds of members of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group who have expressed their anger and frustration over a newly released video appearing to show a Christmas party at the Conservative party headquarters during Covid restrictions in 2020. Leshie told the Guardian: ‘we are living a nightmare’ and said she felt a ‘physical sickness’ after watching the video for the first time. Her father, Ranjith Chanrapala, 64, was a bus driver and died from the virus in May 2020. The video appears to show staff members drinking alcohol and dancing on 14 December 2020 at a gathering held by the campaign team of the unsuccessful London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, who has since been given a peerage in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list. 232 people lost their lives to the pandemic that day
Monday, June 19, 2023
The Olympic Games will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
The Paralympic Games will take place from August 28 to September 8, 2024.
- I used to hate facial hair…but then it grew on me.
- I only know 25 letters of the alphabet. I don’t know y.
- What do you call a magician who lost their magic? Ian
- Wanna hear a joke about a pizza? Never mind, it’s too cheesy
- I used to be addicted to soap, but I’m clean now.
- Why do seagulls fly over the ocean?’ ‘Because if they flew over the bay, we’d call them bagels.
More Dad Jokes here.
Happy Father’s Day.
Boris Johnson’s actions show he is “dangerous” because of his persistence in challenging “everything that’s supposed to protect us against politicians”, the former Conservative MP told James O’Brien.
Frank Paine, a 73-year-old South Bay icon and humble local legend whose life orbits around a two-block stretch of beach.
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ESA » Using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission, the image shows the average concentration of carbon monoxide for 1 May to 13 June. The extremely high concentrations, which are depicted in deep tones of orange, can be linked to active fires during the time. The image also shows how this air pollutant was carried as far as New York in the USA and over the Atlantic.
The Economist » As of June 14th, the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, a not-for-profit, estimated that a total area of 5.4m hectares had been set alight—roughly the size of Costa Rica. This makes 2023 so far the worst year for wildfire damage since 1995, when it was 7.5m hectares. The weather is partly to blame. May was the hottest since 1940. It was also seventh-driest. Such conditions desiccate vegetation and help fires start and spread. Although the absolute number of fires has been only slightly higher than normal, each fire has grown far larger than it usually would. The area ablaze in Quebec is 217 times greater, for example.
Alphabet Inc is cautioning employees about how they use chatbots, including its own Bard, at the same time as it markets the program around the world, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The Google parent has advised employees not to enter its confidential materials into AI chatbots, the people said and the company confirmed, citing long-standing policy on safeguarding information.
Ban will apply worldwide to all of media group’s online and print outlets, including the Guardian, Observer, and Guardian Weekly