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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Women tend to live longer than men. There are traditional explanations: Men smoke more. They drink more. They tend to engage in riskier behavior. But the fact that this lifespan gap holds true regardless of country or century indicates something deeper is also at play. A growing body of evidence suggests that women's relative longevity may derive, in part, from having double X chromosomes, a redundancy that protects them against harmful mutations. That theory was further bolstered Wednesday with the publication of the most sweeping analysis to date of the lifespan differences between males and females in more than 1,000 mammal and bird species... If a baby has a pair of X chromosomes, she's a girl. If the baby inherits an X chromosome and a Y chromosome, he's a boy. In birds, however, the situation is reversed. Female birds have a pair of unlike sex chromosomes while males have the like pair... For their study, Colchero, Staerk and their colleagues collected data on the lifespans of 528 mammal species and 648 bird species kept in zoos. The team found that most other mammals are like humans, with the females of nearly three-fourths of mammal species outliving their male counterparts. But in birds, 68 percent of species studied showed a bias toward male longevity, as expected from their chromosomal makeup.

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President Donald Trump warned Hamas to 'move quickly' and release the hostages or else 'all bets will be off' amid efforts to broker a peace deal to end the violence in Gaza.

Pensioner Joyce Todd warned the future Prime Minister then in 2015 that uncontrolled immigration was having a negative effect on her neighbourhood.

As the Israeli armoured personnel carrier clatters across Gaza, the only glimpse I get of the decimated hellscape outside comes through two tiny video screens.

The Daily Mail's travel reporter, Alesia Fiddler (pictured) faces her fears at this year's Alton Towers' Scarefest.

The 40-year-old pop star and the 53-year-old former Canadian Prime Minister sent social media into a meltdown in July when they were spotted together at a restaurant in Montreal, Canada .

It also has a dipping pond, vegetable garden and orchard and a visitor centre

DIY SOS star Nick, 63, took to social media to update fans on Katie's condition as he shared a hospital snap with his ill wife.

Max Verstappen was riled. His voice rose a note or two. His cadence quickened. He was furious with his pal Lando Norris for blocking him.

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: CBS News has a TL;DR video report, but Jeremy Stern's earlier epic Class Dismissed [at Collosus.com] offers a deep dive into Alpha School, "the teacherless, homeworkless, K-12 private school in Austin, Texas, where students have been testing in the top 0.1% nationally by self-directing coursework with AI tutoring apps for two hours a day. Alpha students are incentivized to complete coursework to "mastery-level" (i.e., scoring over 90%) in only two hours via a mix of various material and immaterial rewards, including the right to spend the other four hours of the school day in 'workshops,' learning things like how to run an Airbnb or food truck, manage a brokerage account or Broadway production, or build a business or drone." Founder MacKenzie Larson's dream that "kids must love school so much they don't want to go on vacation" drew the attention of — and investments of money and time from — mysterious tech billionaire Joe Liemandt, who sent his own kids to Larson's school and now aims to bring the experience to rest of the world. "When GenAI hit in 2022," Liemandt said, "I took a billion dollars out of my software company. I said, 'Okay, we're going to be able to take MacKenzie's 2x in 2 hours groundwork and get it out to a billion kids.' It's going to cost more than that, but I could start to figure it out. It's going to happen. There's going to be a tablet that costs less than $1,000 that is going to teach every kid on this planet everything they need to know in two hours a day and they're going to love it. "I really do think we can transform education for everybody in the world. So that's my next 20 years. I literally wake up now and I'm like, I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I will work 7 by 24 for the next 20 years to fricking do this. The greatest 20 years of my life are right ahead of me. I don't think I'm going to lose. We're going to win." Of course, Stern writes at Collosus.com, there will be questions about this model of schooling, but asks: "Suppose that from kindergarten through 12th grade, your child's teachers were, in essence, stacks of machines. Suppose those machines unlocked more of your child's academic potential than you knew was possible, and made them love school. Suppose the schooling they loved involved vision monitoring and personal data capture. Suppose that surveillance architecture enabled them to outperform your wildest expectations on standardized tests, and in turn gave them self-confidence and self-esteem, and made their own innate potential seem limitless.... Suppose poor kids had a reason to believe and a way to show they're just as academically capable as rich kids, and that every student on Earth could test in what we now consider the top 10%. Suppose it allowed them to spend two-thirds of their school day on their own interests and passions. Suppose your child's deep love of school minted a new class of education billionaires. "If you shrink from such a future, by which principle would you justify stifling it?"

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The incident came during a hard-fought clash in Yorkshire, with Thomas Frank 's side eventually winning 2-1 thanks to goals from Mohammed Kudus and Mathys Tel.

I also know from bitter personal experience that when the woman is the biggest breadwinner - as I was with my former husband - and when she is always away at work, choppy waters lie ahead.

After a bombshell court ruling last week, Michelle Mone is under pressure to repay millions of pounds to the UK taxpayer.

Practicing barrister Sham Uddin posted a video making the claims to his social media accounts just 24 hours after Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, targeted Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester on Thursday.

New video showed Tyler Robinson, 22, at a gas station in Cedar City, Utah one day after the right-wing influencer was shot.

The town is highly sought-after by footballers and other celebrities

The model, 53, has always been known for her incredible figure but she decided to try the jabs after she gained 20lbs last year and was scared of being fat-shamed.

Marcus Fakana, 19, tragically died after a car he was a passenger in smashed into another vehicle while it was being tailed by the Metropolitan Police in Tottenham, north London.

Everybody wants to be a cowboy - until they have to put in the work.