Andres Alquiga and Diana Tupiza place the paw print of their pet as a symbolic witness to their marriage QUITO: When Diana Tupiza and Andres Alquinga decided to get married, they selected a rather unusual witness for the civil wedding ceremony: Luna, their Pekingese pup who stamped her paw print on the marriage certificate.With recently…
Alec and Hilaria Baldwin have pulled their Hamptons home from the market again after years of trying to sell (Getty image) Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, have once again taken their Hamptons home off the market after several attempts to sell it over the past few years.According to Realtor.com, the listing for the…
Japan does not use modern nails to repair centuries-old temples. Instead, master craftsmen rely on an ancient woodworking technique (Representational AI photo) Centuries-old temples in Japan are still repaired without using modern nails, screws or metal brackets. In Japan, master carpenters instead continue to follow an ancient woodworking technique that has been passed down generations…
Dubai’s Emir is so wealthy that he bought a 63,000-acre estate in the pristine Scottish Highlands, yet has visited only five times in twenty years The billionaire ruler of Dubai has expanded his huge 63,000-acre estate in the Scottish Highlands to include ten luxury properties, a hunting lodge and three helipads. However, he has visited…
‘Write in such a way that you can be readily understood’ In 1962, a team of structural engineers faced a serious problem at the newly built international terminal of an American airport. The signs guiding passengers to baggage claim, exits, and customs were filled with complicated official language. Tourists got lost, children became separated from…
‘An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep’ In May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, facing destruction from the advancing German army. By every visible measure of military equipment, battlefield position, and numbers, the Allied forces were…
Artistic rendering of Penrose super-radiance: electromagnetic waves with selected rotation patterns are amplified as they interact with a system that appears to rotate at superluminal speeds. (Credit: Dalila Pasotti and Hadiseh Nasari) Physicists have successfully recreated some of the extreme physics of black holes inside a laboratory by building a stationary device that can copy…
Second pregnancy changes the brain in surprising new ways A woman’s brain changes in very different ways during her second pregnancy compared with her first, helping her adjust to the demands of raising a larger family.The discovery comes from a study by researchers at Amsterdam University Medical Center, published in the journal Nature Communications. Scientists…
Two Asian praying mantises are spreading across Europe, and scientists warn they may now threaten native wildlife Two giant Asian praying mantis species are rapidly spreading across Europe, leading scientists to officially classify them as invasive threats to native wildlife.These fast-breeding predators are steadily moving north, helped by rising global temperatures and the warm conditions…
In an old interview posted on YouTube, Bezos recalled brainstorming on a laptop in the passenger seat while MacKenzie Scott drove him across the country Before Amazon became a three-trillion-dollar global company, its entire business plan was written on a laptop sitting inside the passenger seat of a borrowed 1988 Chevy Blazer.The idea for the…
