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Readers recommendMusicReaders recommend: songs about buses - resultsTraffic was heavy, horns were honked, but the wheels rolled on towards your awe-inspiring omnibus of routes and storiesListening to and choosing bus songs has been a lot like riding them – an epic journey of terrains, sights, sounds and smells. I've experienced lengthy uncertainty, frustrating delay and white-knuckle ride excitement. I've moved through the gears of every imaginable mood swing. I've felt tension and tedium, seen tragedy and romance, enjoyed surprises and humour, and endured heartbreak and regret. [Read More]

Biology This article is more than 7 months oldSynthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advanceThis article is more than 7 months oldExclusive: Breakthrough could aid research into genetic disorders but raises serious ethical and legal issues Analysis: advances leave legislators needing to catch up Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, in a groundbreaking advance that sidesteps the need for eggs or sperm. Scientists say these model embryos, which resemble those in the earliest stages of human development, could provide a crucial window on the impact of genetic disorders and the biological causes of recurrent miscarriage. [Read More]

Fashion weeksThis year activists demonstrated against the use of cashmere and leather, but fashion is fertile ground for protests, as Katharine Hamnett proved 40 years ago when she shocked Margaret Thatcher with an anti-cruise missile T-shirt Last Friday, on the first day of London fashion week, a woman dressed as a goat screamed as passersby on a busy London shopping street looked on, aghast. “I had pieces of fake hair attached to me, which were torn off to imitate the suffering in the production of cashmere,” says Lucy Ferguson, who played the part of the goat. [Read More]

SEMANTIC ENIGMASArigato in Japanese and obrigado in Portuguese. Are these words related? I know the Portuguese once had a strong influence on Japan, including the use of loan words, for example tempura and igirisu (Enlish). Bjorn Haglund, London England It's purely a coincidence with no etymological foundation. Arigato is merely the shortened form of arigato gozaimasu. David Lane, Venice, US Yes, they are related.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shRYGtYwIuM&feature=player_embedded :) Micaela, Lisbon Portugal [Read More]

‘When people clap at the end of my shows, sometimes I don’t believe them’ … Pam Tanowitz. Photograph: George Etheredge‘When people clap at the end of my shows, sometimes I don’t believe them’ … Pam Tanowitz. Photograph: George EtheredgeDanceInterviewChoreographer Pam Tanowitz: ‘I’m a neurotic Jew, waiting for something bad to happen’Lyndsey WinshipDespite her work being described as the greatest dance theatre of the century, Tanowitz can still be found ‘backstage, throwing up’ before shows. [Read More]

Homeland: episode by episodeHomelandHomeland season five, episode three – Super PowersThe Drone Queen heads down a Mathison-shaped rabbit hole this week as she tries to work out who put the hit out on her in the only way she knows how ‘I’ve already gone off them. Three days ago.’Just three weeks in, and Homeland is throwing the Drone Queen off the deep end. After learning that the car bomb in Beirut last week was actually meant for her and not her new boss, Düring, Carrie decides to take herself off lithium and open her mind (as she sees it) to stare into her own personal abyss and work out who’d like to kill her. [Read More]

Alan Pulido is seen next to the Tamaulipas state governor, Egidio Torre Cantú, after Pulido’s rescue. Photograph: Stringer/ReutersAlan Pulido is seen next to the Tamaulipas state governor, Egidio Torre Cantú, after Pulido’s rescue. Photograph: Stringer/ReutersMexico This article is more than 7 years oldMexican football star Alan Pulido disarmed kidnapper in daring escapeThis article is more than 7 years oldOlympiakos player snatched in Ciudad Victoria on Saturday night State prosecutor says striker called authorities with captor’s phoneThe Mexican footballer Alan Pulido, who was kidnapped and held for 24 hours over the weekend, escaped his captors by disarming and taking a mobile phone away from one of them, then calling the police, according to an official summary report obtained by the Guardian. [Read More]

Papi, London E8: ‘They don’t want to scare away passers-by.’ Photograph: Karen Robinson/The GuardianView image in fullscreenPapi, London E8: ‘They don’t want to scare away passers-by.’ Photograph: Karen Robinson/The GuardianGrace Dent on restaurantsFoodReviewThe hype is hot but the cooking is serious If you didn’t get round to visiting Papi in any of its previous incarnations, in the guise of the Hot 4 U pop-up, well, I can’t really blame you. After all, life was making it jolly difficult to eat out at the time, and you were very possibly staring forlornly at an NHS Covid app and wondering if that ping meant another nine full days of baked bean Brevilles, or you had just given up on “the outdoors” altogether. [Read More]

OpinionJohnny Depp This article is more than 1 year oldThe Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial was an orgy of misogynyThis article is more than 1 year oldMoira DoneganThe backlash to #Me Too has long been under way. But this feels like a tipping point In text messages to friends, Johnny Depp fantasized about murdering his then-wife, the actress Amber Heard. “I will fuck her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead,” Depp wrote. [Read More]

Bluey This article is more than 1 year oldThe cartoon where it happens: Lin-Manuel Miranda guest stars as horse in new Bluey episodeThis article is more than 1 year oldThe Hamilton creator has said the series was his most-watched show of the pandemic, and now he has a surprise voice credit The creator of smash hit musicals Hamilton and In the Heights, and winner of multiple Tonys, Grammys and Emmys, has finally fulfilled another of his dreams: to guest star in the Australian animated series Bluey. [Read More]