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With each new year brings a host of exciting sporting events for fans across the world, and 2021 is set to be a year that is even more poignant, with many of 2020’s biggest calendar highlights having been postponed due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Next year, we can expect to see the likes of the long-awaited Tokyo Olympics and delayed Euro 2020 tournament finally taking place, along with a host of the usual annual sporting events scattered throughout the year – making it an epic year for sportspeople and enthusiasts alike. If you’re partial to a bit of a...

Dan Shea: Do you have any quarantine jams you’d care to share with us?? Rajen Bhatt: You lovely purveyors of good tunes are urged to check out Iron Lung records (https://lifeironlungdeath.blogspot.com/?m=1) for not just hardcore and powerviolence but also the expanded distro of weird synthpunk, industrial, and even death metal that they have to offer. So much good stuff on there to be slayed at full volume under lockdown. Also must tip my hat to the fine folks at SGG in NYC who also have a plethora of tasty jams. Let’s fucking go! Kick ass! DS: What music are you...

Vladimir Nabokov writing in a notebook on the bed. Photo by Carl Mydans VLADIMIR NABOKOV  INTERVIEWED BY PENELOPE GILLIATT  (1966) BIOGRAPHY OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV by Penelope Gilliatt Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), the American novelist, was born in St Petersburg in Russia. He came from an aristocratic family which left Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1919, and studied Russian and French literature at Cambridge. Thereafter he lived in Berlin until the late 1930s, moved to Paris for a couple of years, and emigrated to the United States, taking out US citizenship in 1945. He published novels, written in Russian, in both...

We present the short story "The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock" by O. Henry. The story was originally adapted and recorded by the U.S. Department of State. Prince Michael of Valleluna sat in the park on the seat he liked best. In the coolness of the night, he felt full of life. The other seats were not filled. Cool weather sends most people home. The moon was rising over the houses on the east side of the park. Children laughed and played. Music came softly from one of the nearer streets. Around the little park, cabs rolled by. The trains...

Low Carb Long Menstrual Cycle? (& Inability to Lean Out), Learning Capoeira, Thoughts On Viome?, Chlorinated Chicken and Brexit, High Blood Sugars While in Ketosis? Make your health an act of rebellion. Join The Healthy Rebellion Please Subscribe and Review: Apple Podcasts | RSS  Submit your questions for the podcast here   Show Notes: —- News topic du jour: US obesity epidemic could undermine effectiveness of a Covid-19 vaccine “Scientists know that vaccines engineered to protect the public from influenza, hepatitis B, tetanus and rabies can be less effective in obese adults than in the general population, leaving them more...