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Queen Mary of Denmark just transformed diamond bracelet into a tiara at King Carl Gustaf’s party

Queen Mary of Denmark just transformed diamond bracelet into a tiara at King Carl Gustaf’s party

Published by Daniella Wilson

All eyes were on the beautiful Queen Mary of Denmark when she celebrated King Carl Gustaf of Sweden’s 80th birthday at Stockholm’s Royal Palace on Thursday night. Looking resplendent in a Japanese-inspired purple floral dress with a keyhole neckline, the 54-year-old royal accessorised to perfection with glittering silver drop earrings and a beautiful tiara as she went arm-in-arm with her husband King Frederick X. © Getty ImagesQueen Mary of Denmark celebrated King Carl Gustaf of Sweden’s 80th birthday at Stockholm this week Upon closer inspection, however, the queen’s statement headpiece was actually a historic bracelet from the Danish Royal Property Trust. The DIY tiara was crafted from a diamond floral bracelet that previously belonged to Queen Louise of Sweden. The sentimental item boasts a rich history; it was originally given as a wedding gift by King Oscar I and Queen Josephine of Sweden to the future Queen Louise in 1850. The piece was most recently sported by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, who abdicated the throne in 2024. Margrethe was often pictured wearing the special …

How Trump’s EPA head has transformed the agency — and sided with polluters : NPR

How Trump’s EPA head has transformed the agency — and sided with polluters : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency are being chased out and departments drastically reduced or eliminated. Efforts at the EPA to slow climate change and reduce pollution are constantly being decreased. The head of the EPA, who is behind this change of direction, is Lee Zeldin. President Trump has described him as our secret weapon. Zeldin isn’t known for the kind of personal drama and big personality that some other members of the Trump administration are. But he’s been very successful in carrying out the dramatic changes in Trump’s agenda to undo restrictions on companies that are polluters and on the chemicals in the air and water that harm our health and the environment. My guest, Elizabeth Kolbert, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental journalist and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her article in the current issue is titled “Can The E.P.A. Survive Lee Zeldin?” She’s also the author of the bestseller “The Sixth Extinction.” Our interview was recorded yesterday. Elizabeth Kolbert, welcome back …

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets | Paris

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets | Paris

Published by Sam Flores

When Corentin Roudaut moved to Paris 10 years ago, he was too scared to cycle. The IT developer had biked everywhere as a student in Rennes but felt overwhelmed by the bustling French capital. Cars were everywhere. Cyclists had almost no protection. But once authorities carved out space for a segregated bike lane on Boulevard Voltaire near his home in the 11th arrondissement, Roudaut returned to the two-wheel commute and did not look back. He now volunteers with Paris en Selle, a cycling campaign group, and has watched with wonder as the city has shaken off its car-centric reputation. “It was a process that started slow and really accelerated in the last 10 years,” Roudaut said. “At least in some parts of the city, we have a [cycle] network that is starting to be safe and pretty much complete.” Paris has embarked on a grand transformation since Anne Hidalgo became mayor in 2014, planting 155,000 trees, adding several hundred kilometres of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the …

Maradona’s former home is transformed into a soup kitchen in Argentina

Maradona’s former home is transformed into a soup kitchen in Argentina

Published by Sam Flores

BUENOS AIRES, March 31 : Every week, hundreds of people line up to fill a plastic container with food in an unlikely place: the humble home where Argentine soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona was born. The house in Villa Fiorito, a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, no longer belongs to the family of Maradona, who died in 2020 after a heart attack, but for the last month, its current owner has lent its dirt yard to a group of volunteers who light a grill and cook for neighbors. Last Thursday, Maria Torres stirred a stew in two large pots while several others peeled potatoes and chopped pieces of chicken. A mural painted on the house’s facade depicts the soccer player next to the words, “The house of god.” Poverty has been trending downward in Argentina, with official statistics showing it dropping to 31.6 per cent in the first half of 2025 from 52.9 per cent in the first half of 2024, when President Javier Milei sharply devalued the peso and inflation spiked. …

Watch Errol Morris’s Tune Out the Noise Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing

Watch Errol Morris’s Tune Out the Noise Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing

Published by José Betancourt

You can’t beat the mar­ket. That, at least, is the advice we all encounter ear­ly on when first we try our hand at invest­ing. Home­spun though it may sound, the idea has aca­d­e­m­ic roots: the Effi­cient Mar­ket Hypoth­e­sis, as the econ­o­mists call it, holds that the prices in any finan­cial mar­ket already reflect all avail­able infor­ma­tion rel­e­vant to what’s being trad­ed with­in them. In the case of the stock mar­ket, for exam­ple, every­thing known — or indeed, know­able — about the future prospects of a par­tic­u­lar com­pa­ny is already incor­po­rat­ed into its stock price, or might as well be. If the EMH is true, then it must also be true that nobody can beat the mar­ket, no mat­ter how deep their expe­ri­ence or devel­oped their instinct for pick­ing stocks. Nobel Lau­re­ate econ­o­mist Eugene Fama, who’s done more than any­one alive to refine the EFM and keep it in cir­cu­la­tion, appears as one of the inter­vie­wees in Tune Out the Noise, the Errol Mor­ris-direct­ed doc­u­men­tary above. So do a range of oth­er fig­ures, most­ly sep­tu­a­ge­nar­i­an and octo­ge­nar­i­an, …

Denise Richards is transformed in before-and-after photos of her facelift

Denise Richards is transformed in before-and-after photos of her facelift

Published by Daniella Wilson

Denise Richards has always been an open book, sharing her life honestly with fans through her social media and also reality TV shows. The actress, 55, recently opened up about undergoing a facelift for the first time, sharing intimate details about the experience in a refreshingly honest interview – and even allowing her surgeon to post striking before-and-after photos. In a joint Instagram post, her doctor, Dr. Ben Talei, praised Denise as “one of the most lovely and beautiful people to ever walk this earth,” describing the procedure as a comprehensive restoration designed to preserve her natural character rather than change it.  © InstagramDenise and her surgeon shared before and after photos of her facelift He highlighted subtle refinements, from forehead contouring and eyebrow organization to deeper structural lifting using advanced techniques, emphasizing a holistic approach to facial rejuvenation. Rather than shying away from the conversation, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum leaned into it. Speaking candidly to Allure, she explained why she chose to publicly discuss her facelift.  © InstagramDenise opened up candidly …

Harrison Ford’s self-built Hollywood Hills home he transformed during his carpenter days

Harrison Ford’s self-built Hollywood Hills home he transformed during his carpenter days

Published by Daniella Wilson

Harrison Ford has long lived in Wyoming, having purchased his Jackson Hole ranch in the early 1980s. However, before that, the Star Wars actor, 83, lived in the Hollywood Hills.  Located on Woodrow Wilson Drive, Harrison’s 2,500-square-foot home became not only his bolthole but a personal DIY project as he set about renovating the property himself. According to Architectural Digest, the Indiana Jones actor’s pad was originally built as a Forest Service lookout cabin. © Getty ImagesHarrison Ford renovated his Hollywood Hills home himself Harrison’s DIY project at Hollywood Hills pad Harrison owned the three-bedroom residence, which was built in 1911, while he was working as a carpenter between acting gigs. In this home, he installed bespoke cabinets, as well as a sundeck.  © GettyHarrison renovated his Hollywood Hills home before his career took off thanks to Star Wars “Everything I built is still standing,” the actor, who is married to actress Calista Flockhart, told Parade in 2020. When the property hit the market in 2006, it reportedly still had much of Harrison’s handiwork left …

GLP-1s like Ozempic transformed weight loss and diabetes. Is addiction next? : NPR

GLP-1s like Ozempic transformed weight loss and diabetes. Is addiction next? : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

People taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for diabetes were less likely to be diagnosed with substance use disorder, a new study shows. Maria Fabrizio for NPR hide caption toggle caption Maria Fabrizio for NPR There’s new evidence that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic can reduce the risk of addiction. A study of more than 600,000 veterans followed for up to three years found that those who started taking a GLP-1 drug for diabetes were about 15% to 20% less likely to misuse substances ranging from alcohol to opioids. The study, which appears in The BMJ, a medical journal, also found that GLP-1 drugs helped people with a history of substance use disorder. They were less likely to experience an overdose, drug-related hospitalization, drug-related death or suicide attempt. “The surprise was that it was working across various substances,” says Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, an author of the study and a clinical epidemiologist at WashU Medicine in St. Louis. That suggests a common “biologic signal” affected by GLP-1 drugs is involved in all addictive disorders, says Al-Aly, who also …

Iran Transformed | Arang Keshavarzian

Iran Transformed | Arang Keshavarzian

Published by José Betancourt

On February 28 Israeli warplanes assassinated Ali Khamenei, Iran’s leader, by dropping thirty bombs on his compound in Tehran. It was the opening salvo of the US and Israel’s joint war of choice. Within a day missile attacks and aircraft sorties had done grave damage across the country: in southern Iran airstrikes hit a girls school, killing at least 175 people, most of them children between seven and twelve. Mostly lost in the unrelenting news cycle were reports that the US and Israel had also bombed the historic center of Tehran, which houses the nineteenth-century Golestan Palace and the entrance to the city’s Grand Bazaar. A brief video clip of the aftermath showed a few disoriented men milling around, caught up in the fog of war. Nine weeks earlier that bazaar had been at the center of a very different upheaval. In late December shopkeepers, moneylenders, and merchants there took to the streets, igniting an immense wave of protests against the regime that was brutally repressed by Iran’s security apparatus. When they unleashed this week’s …

Anthropic says Claude Code transformed programming. Now Claude Cowork is coming for the rest of the enterprise.

Anthropic says Claude Code transformed programming. Now Claude Cowork is coming for the rest of the enterprise.

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Anthropic opened its virtual “Briefing: Enterprise Agents” event on Tuesday with a provocation. Kate Jensen, the company’s head of Americas, told viewers that the hype around enterprise AI agents in 2025 “turned out to be mostly premature,” with many pilots failing to reach production. “It wasn’t a failure of effort, it was a failure of approach, and it’s something we heard directly from our customers,” Jensen said. The implicit promise: Anthropic has figured out the right approach, and it starts with the playbook that made Claude Code one of the most consequential developer tools of the past year. “In 2025 Claude transformed how developers work, and in 2026 it will do the same for knowledge work,” Jensen said. “The magic behind Claude Code is simple. When you can delegate hard challenges, you can focus on the work that actually matters. Cowork brings that same power to knowledge workers.” That framing is central to understanding what Anthropic announced on Tuesday. The company rolled out a sweeping set of enterprise capabilities for Claude Cowork, the AI productivity …