Articles from ‘elocal magazine’

It’s not every day that you see a US$1,000 motorcycle that’s ready to ride as it comes. That’s exactly what we have here in the form of the X-Pro MC-N025, a unique, commuter bike that comes from … China. Yep. · The likes of Benda and CFMoto are just a handful of reputed Chinese motorcycle manufacturers. The vast majority of the country's motorcycle sector continues to print imitation motorcycles at the most economical possible cost, and even…

Las Vegas was a small railroad town when Nevada formally established it in 1905. Five years after its founding, the U.S. census recorded only 800 residents. Yet by the 1950s, it was known as a gambling tourist haven, where visitors could see a show with celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. in between trips to the baccarat tables. · Although Nevada’s legalization of gambling in 1931 opened the doors for this transformation, that…

What can you cook with beans? For Ali Honour, who has three decades’ experience as a chef, it’s the wrong question. “What can’t you do with beans? I haven’t found the answer to that yet,” she says. “And I hope I never do. I hope I die asking that same question, while I’m eating my beans.” · For Honour, getting involved with the campaign Beans is How – which aims to double global consumption of beans, as well as other pulses and legumes, by 2028…

Men tend to be happier with life when they're married, as many studies have identified over the last few decades. But new research shows they also become fatter. In fact, they're more than three times more likely to be obese than men who remained unmarried. · In research to be presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025) in Spain in May, Polish scientists looked at the data of 1,098 men and 1,307 women with a median age of 50,…

A rice wine native to the Philippines has grabbed the attention of researchers looking into new, natural ways to slow biological aging. But it's not the wine itself – sorry – in the spotlight, but what's left over after the liquid is ready to bottled. · The wine known as "tapuy" is made using a disc-shaped starter culture called "bubod" – made up of starch and beneficial microorganisms – which, when added to cooked native glutinous rices,…

A 2,500-year-old tomb with vibrant red wall paintings has been unearthed at the ancient Tarquinia necropolis in Italy, the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape for the province of Viterbo and for Southern Etruria announced on February 6. · Located about 45 miles northwest of Rome, the necropolis was started by the Etruscans, who lived in the region from the 8th to 3rd century BCE and had a great deal of influence on the…

Over a year and a million kilometers' worth of real-world testing has returned impressive results for Spanish company Fersa's "fuel efficient wheel hub," which cuts fuel burn by at least 3% and saves operators around US$3,500 per truck per year. · Logistics companies spend insane amounts of money on fuel each year – it's a huge line item in fleet-wide operational expenses. So quite apart from the environmental benefits, a clever fuel efficiency…

Yvonne van Dongen questions whether the Human Rights Commission is fit for purpose after endorsing puberty blockers for children despite global safety concerns. · She asks: Can an organisation that promotes unscientific ideology still be trusted? · Van Dongen describes the submission as a “model of obeisance to trans ideology”, aligning with gender-affirming organisations like the Professional Association of Transgender Health Aotearoa, the…

Public health doctors are raising concerns about what they call government “overreach” after being instructed that all public statements must be approved at a national level. · The directive, delivered by National Public Health Service director Dr Nick Chamberlain, has sparked fears that doctors will no longer be able to speak freely about critical health issues in their regions. · Medical officers of health, who are trained doctors…

The most important element in European foreign relations throughout the 1920s and during the early 1930s was the desire at all costs to avoid another war. There was among European statesmen a widespread conviction that another war would be infinitely more destructive than the Great War had been, and any alternative seemed preferable. · 1. Hitler’s War · The First World War revealed that Germany was the most powerful state in Europe. In the…