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3 weeks ago | 
racingpost.com | Alistair Jones
The Classic action in Britain moves to Epsom this weekend with the Betfred Oaks (4.00) taking place on Friday and the Betfred Derby (3.30) the following afternoon. We've taken a look at previous runnings and picked out the key factors to help you find the winner.
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4 weeks ago | 
phys.org | Alistair Jones |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
Imagine waking up in a foreign country where you do not speak the language and have no understanding of social etiquette, much less the norms or expectations for engaging with others. This would surely be stressful. In fact, extensive research has found that people do experience stress when interacting with individuals from backgrounds that are different from their own.
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1 month ago | 
pcgamer.com | Alistair Jones
The ThunderX3 Flex Pro is a strange chair, mostly because I'm not entirely sure it knows what it wants to be. A professional-looking chair with few frills, it's at its best not when you're sitting bolt upright concentrating on a meeting or working diligently at your keyboard, but when you're almost dangerously reclined, gamepad in hand as you relax at your desk. The flexibility to allow you to switch between those two approaches is one of the Thunder X3 Flex Pro's biggest selling points.
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1 month ago | 
leicester.news | Alistair Jones
Reform UK has successfully defeated candidates from all the major parties in Leicestershire. The final elections to Leicestershire County Council saw the largest change in representation since the city and Rutland were made unitary authorities on 1 April 1997. The Conservative party, which had run the county council since then, took their heaviest beating, losing 27 seats. Like the first elections to the new county council, the result is no overall control.
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2 months ago | 
racingpost.com | Alistair Jones
The first Classic of the Flat season is upon us with the Betfred 2,000 Guineas taking place at Newmarket on Saturday (3.35) and we've taken a look at previous runnings and picked out the key factors to help you find the winner.
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2 months ago | 
racingpost.com | Alistair Jones
One week on from the Randox Grand National at Aintree, the Scottish equivalent takes place at Ayr with Willie Mullins set to have a strong hand as he chases a second British trainers' championship. We've taken a look at previous runnings and picked out the key factors to help you find the winner.
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2 months ago | 
leicester.news | Alistair Jones
Central government has come up with a plan for local government (again). Larger local authorities (again). And unitary authorities (again). There is a clear fixation on making local councils bigger, but do the reasons why hold up? If we go back to the Redcliffe-Maud Report into local government, from 1969, the plan was to introduce unitary local authorities, with a maximum population of around 250,000.
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2 months ago | 
racingpost.com | Alistair Jones
Jump racing's most famous contest, the Randox Grand National (4.00), takes place this weekend. We've taken a look at previous runnings and picked out the key factors to help you find the winner. ExperienceNo fewer than 23 of the last 29 winners were making their National debuts. Since the days of Red Rum in the 1970s, only ten winners had contested the previous year (finishing P4F9F3FF01).
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Mar 22, 2025 | 
racingpost.com | Alistair Jones
Bangor2.15: Too Cool ForshruleThe sudden improvement that TOO COOL FORSHRULE found last week was over fences but it was his first handicap and he didn't go unbacked. He's off the very same mark for this return to hurdles. Regal And Royal has presumably been waiting for the forecast drier ground and fitness might not hold him back after a lengthy absence. Speiriuil and handicap debutant Yhprum's Law are preferred of the remainder.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
eurekalert.org | Alistair Jones
By Alistair JonesSMU Office of Research – Even by the standards of medical terminology, photoplethysmography (PPG) is a mouthful. Yet it is widely used in clinical settings as a non-invasive, optical technique for measuring the oxygen saturation level in the blood, and the pulse rate, as vital signs of a patient. It is commonly encountered as a clip-on oximeter attached to a finger. First developed in the 1930s, PPG emits light to illuminate the microvascular bed of the skin.
