Pitch Perfect 2Pitch Perfect 2’s Anna Kendrick is an expert in playing twitchy high-achievers with a hint of control freakery. In real-life she’s an endearing dork. She talks to Henry Barnes about passionate fans and Hollywood gender equality
Anna Kendrick catches me engrossed in a Vanity Fair spread on sex robots. A guy in California runs a factory that makes life-size erotic automata. You can buy them “natural” or hairless, busty or flat-chested. Read More...
Alex Bellos's Monday puzzleScienceCan you solve it? Bigger! Faster! Heavier! – quiz10 problems about big numbers
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We use numbers every day to describe the world – distances, weights, speeds, debts, populations, and so on. Yet most of us struggle to have an intuitive sense of what these numbers mean. How big is big? How fast is fast?
Today I’ve set a different challenge to my usual mathematical puzzle. The 10 questions below are a test of estimation skills, common sense and general knowledge – but also of our feel for numbers. Read More...
Libya celebrates the death of Gaddafi – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Across Libya, citizens and fighters react to the death of the ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi Fri 21 Oct 2011 07.44 EDT First published on Fri 21 Oct 2011 07.44 EDT An anti-Gaddafi fighter holds a picture of Libya's ousted leader Photograph: Chine Nouvelle/Rex Features Read More...
