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Quadrobics: should you get on all fours and act like an animal to get fit?

The latest workout craze is super-physical, ultra-exhausting and involves releasing your inner beast ...Name: Quadrobics.Age: New and sprightly. Conti...

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The consensus is clear: it’s genocide. Now will international law die in Gaza too? | Raji Sourani

There is a UN convention for exactly this kind of horror: the convention for the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. When will the wor...

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US players to give Ryder Cup money away after criticism

World number one Scottie Scheffler says he will use the money he is being paid to play at this week's Ryder Cup "to do some good in our local communit...

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Tories demand inquiry into claims Labour’s McSweeney misled elections watchdog

Starmer’s chief of staff used ‘false excuse’ for failing to declare donations to his former thinktank, Conservatives claimThe Conservatives have...

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Noel Clarke ordered to pay initial £3m in legal costs to the Guardian after losing libel case

Mrs Justice Steyn says former Dr Who actor ‘has to bear responsibility’ for increased scale and cost of the litigationNoel Clarke has been ordered...

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What’s the Dog in Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’? A Longtime Mystery Is Solved.

What inspired that furry figure in the corner of Rembrandt’s celebrated painting? Researchers at the Rijksmuseum say they’ve solved the longtime m...

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Amara Reed PhD
Amara Reed PhD

Fashion Journalist

5.0

From a methodological perspective, Regular Expression Crossword Puzzles: Exercise Book offers innovative approaches to patterns. The interdisciplinary nature of the research, bridging Books and Studying & Workbooks, results in novel insights.

Review of Regular Expression Crossword Puzzles: Exercise Book

Lucas Martinez
Lucas Martinez

AI Research Engineer

5.8

This book came into my life at just the right time. I've been struggling with simulation in my work, and the practical advice in JavaScript is NOT a Toy has been transformative.

Review of JavaScript is NOT a Toy

Elliot Simmons PhD
Elliot Simmons PhD

Architect

4.5

The book introduces compelling arguments about Books, but lacks some nuance when discussing programming.

Review of Vulkan Essentials

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."