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BBC
Best moments from the Oscars: A payback kiss, a surprise win, and a call out to 'Mommy': It's the biggest night in Hollywood - here are some of the top moments from Sunday night's show.
Low-paid workers to get right to 80% of salary in sick pay: Those currently earning less than £123 a week are currently not eligible for sick pay.
Singing Butler painter Jack Vettriano dies aged 73: The artist, best known for The Singing Butler, was found dead at his apartment in the south of France.
'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number': Thousands of pounds were stolen after EDF gave his mobile number to scammers, says Stephen.

CBC
N.S. rapidly losing some of its most affordable apartments, while cost soars for new ones:

Some of Nova Scotia's most affordable rental housing is quickly becoming less so, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation data analyzed by CBC News. At the same time, the newest rental housing may be too expensive for many people.

Manitoba's pleas for Amazon, Walmart to clamp down on online machete sales ignored:

Amazon and Walmart Canada haven't responded to two separate letters from the provincial government, which ask it to "comply with the intent" of provincial legislation when selling machetes and other long-blade weapons online, the government confirmed.

4.1-magnitude earthquake strikes off B.C.'s Southern Gulf Islands:

New York Times Science
Vesuvius Erupted, but When Exactly?: Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the fire.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 Successfully Lands on the Moon: Firefly Aerospace’s robotic vehicle became the second privately built spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon. It could soon be joined by two more private lunar landers.

Vesuvius Turned One Victim’s Brain to Glass: Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, a new study confirms.

How Fungi Move Among Us: Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient.

It’s Like Virtual Reality Goggles for Your Mouth: Scientists tested a device that helped volunteers taste flavors meant to represent distant samples of coffee, lemonade, fried eggs, cake and fish soup.


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The oldest known human art is also the oldest known human attempt to record Nature.  This painting is 34,000 years old and was found in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, which is the subject of Werner Herzog’s film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog used a 3D camera to capture how the shapes of the walls were incorporated into the paintings.

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