Andrew Brown

1 week ago | msn.com | Andrew Brown

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1 week ago | msn.com | Andrew Brown

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Andrew Brown

WE MAY have reached peak John Gray: the philosopher’s latest jeremiad, in The New Statesman, contains a sentence that sums up an important strain of his thinking: “Nude sunbathing — one of the fads of the new Nietzscheans — may be tricky in the irradiated dusk of a nuclear winter.”This reminds me of an excellent Northern Irish joke about a Paisleyite preacher who prophesies that there will be “weeping and gnashing of teeth”. An elderly lady asks about the people who have lost their teeth.

1 week ago | scitechdaily.com | Ruben Meerman |Andrew Brown |UNSW Sydney

Surprisingly, when you lose weight, you’re literally breathing out fat in the form of carbon dioxide. This process accounts for the vast majority of weight loss, debunking common myths among even health experts about fat transformation. Credit: SciTechDaily.comMost health professionals lack a clear understanding of how body fat is lost, often subscribing to misconceptions like fat converting to energy or muscle.

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Andrew Brown

ONE way or another, I have written leaders at least once for every broadsheet newspaper in London, except the Financial Times. For younger readers, “broadsheet” was a style of printing newspapers on large sheets of paper, now represented only by the FT and the Telegraph. It was meant to mark out the serious papers from the silly ones, and to distinguish news from entertainment, a link that has been decisively broken by the Telegraph today.