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Friday, September 21, 2018

Ten Things of Coming and Going


Do people in love need to have sex?/Mumsnet
  1. Some 18% of respondents under the age of 30 have had sex fewer than 10 times in the past year, a survey of 2,000 people on websites Mumsnet and Gransnet has found.
  2. Gay dating app Grindr has taken a stand against discrimination on its platform and says no user is entitled to tear another down for "being who they are".
  3. Human dignity is a concept with remarkably shallow historical roots, says philosophy professor Remy Debes, and it is presently endangered.
  4. President Trump recommended building a wall across the Sahara to solve Europe's migrant crisis, Spain's foreign minister says.
  5. Martin Sellner is the European far right's newest poster boy who delivers a monologue about the evils of multiculturalism and how Muslims want to take over Europe. He insists that his movement is non-racist and non-violent, but the refugees his group actively persecute are not convinced.
  6. Two 15-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of planning to carry out far-right terrorism offences in Kent, in England.
  7. In Japan, tattoos have long been associated with the notorious yakuza crime syndicates and inked tourists can find themselves barred from traditional communal hot springs, or onsens.
  8. Warmer weather conditions in western Greece have led to the eerie spectacle of a 300m-long spiderweb in Aitoliko.
  9. A US restaurant is using marijuana to sedate lobsters before killing them. Charlotte's Legendary Lobster Pound, a restaurant in Maine, says the process is more humane as it lessens their pain before death.
  10. British TV host and comedy writer Denis Norden has died aged 96, his family has said.

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