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...study, published Thursday in the British Medical Journal, involved 200 healthy 65-year-olds, who were divided into two groups: one was given a verbal description of the symptoms of advanced dementia; the other listened to the same description but also watched a two-minute video of an elderly woman with the condition being cared for in a nursing home by her two daughters. "Tell us, Ma, how many daughters do you have?" the children ask. "One? Two? You don't know?" (The entire video can be seen here...
...Watching a LOT of fashion mistakes go past whilst waiting for the bus," a British Twitterer pouts. "This is why I don't use public transport...
...Futurism," at London's Tate Modern from June 12 to Sept. 20, shows what happened when the Italians collided with French, Russian, British and American painters. After a visit to Paris in 1911, they borrowed the Cubists' fragmented forms and variable viewpoints, while the Cubists became more louche and vivid under Italian influence. (See 10 things to do in London...
...attempted to scale Mount Everest in 2005, he suffered a heart attack 1,000 ft. from the summit (29,029 ft., or 8,848 m, above sea level). Three years later, exhaustion foiled a second attempt at virtually the same height. But on May 21, the 65-year-old British adventurer (and third cousin of actors Joseph and Ralph Fiennes) finally scaled Everest, making him the first man to conquer the world's highest peak and cross the North and South Poles unaided. "I get vertigo and don't like looking down," he says of his time at the summit...
...current form can do so by voting for Geert Wilders," he said. His PVV party, like other political outliers, is expected to benefit from mainstream voter apathy. The Trotskyite anti-capitalist movement of Olivier Besancenot could muster 10% of France's vote, for instance, and the anti-immigrant British National Party could win its first seat...