Articles from ‘elocal magazine’

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Being immunised against shingles has been linked to a reduced dementia risk before and now a study suggests that the newer vaccine wards off the condition more effectively than an older one · The latest shingles vaccine may delay or possibly even prevent the onset of dementia more effectively than an older version. · Being vaccinated against shingles has been linked to dementia protection before. Now, it seems that a vaccine called Shingrix,…

Since 1896, the modern Olympic Games has been one of the globe’s most coveted and beloved sporting mega-events. During the 20th century, the games were used as a stepping stone for a nation, to assert its collective ambition to the world. · A catalyst for change, catapulting cities such as Seoul and Barcelona into the collective conscious, the games were also hijacked as a way to project distorted visions of humanity from the Nazi Olympics of…

A skinny snake between two mega-continents, the isthmus of Central America is easy to ignore on a map. Perhaps that’s why only 330,994 people from the UK visited the region in 2022. Given that official data includes the Dominican Republic, it’s safe to say that more Britons go to North America every fortnight than visit Central America in a year. · Only 30 miles separate the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea in Panama. A flight from top to…

“ENGLAND OR DROWN!” proclaimed the New York Daily News on its frontpages. It was August 6, 1926, the day that an American, Gertrude Ederle, was poised to become the first woman to swim the English Channel. · Only five men had ever swum the waterway before. The challenges included quickly changing tides, six-foot waves, frigid temperatures and lots of jellyfish. That day, Ederle not only made it across, she beat all of the previous men’s…

Several New Zealand athletes competed – and won medals – as part of ‘Australasian’ teams at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics. This country’s first official team competed at Antwerp in 1920. The first Games to be held after the First World War, the event was awarded to Belgium to honour that country’s enormous suffering during the war. The Games began with a requiem mass in Antwerp Cathedral, and for the first time at the Olympics doves were released…

Lithium is a finite resource, and the more we lock inside rechargeable batteries, the less we have to use. A new speedy method to free the element from such sources could be a game changer in terms of the material's availability. · Thanks to our modern day way of purchasing rechargeable everything – including cars – the demand for the lithium-ion batteries that power much of our consumer technology has been skyrocketing. Currently valued at…

Star Catcher Industries has secured US$12.25 million in seed funding for its ambitious plan to build the world’s first “space-based energy grid.” A network of satellites would gather energy from the Sun and beam it at higher concentrations to other satellites in orbit. · Collecting energy from sunlight makes even more sense in space – you get a constant stream of energy 24/7, without being at the mercy of the weather or taking up valuable land.…

For the first time, the fully mechanical heart made by BiVACOR, which uses the same technology as high-speed rail lines, has been implanted inside a human being. The feat marks a major step in keeping people alive as they wait for heart transplants. · The total artificial heart (TAH) was implanted as part of an early feasibility study overseen by the US Food and Drug Administration. According to a statement from the Texas Heart Institute where…

The American Democratic party has not ever been and certainly is not now truly democratic. The process by which President Biden’s apparent disability has been concealed and the method party leaders are using to replace him is more reminiscent of Plato’s lying guardians than it is of Aristotle’s democrats. · The ancient Greeks gave the world the first democracy. Aristotle, the greatest philosopher of antiquity and the man who summed up the…