TelevisionInterviewLizzy Caplan on Fleishman: ‘Seeing a woman having a midlife crisis is usually explosive’Elle HuntShe built a cult following in Freaks and Geeks, was a fetish expert in Masters of Sex – and is now stealing the show in modern malaise hit Fleishman Is in Trouble. Does it really mirror much of her life?
Seventeen years ago, when Lizzy Caplan was 24, it was foretold: she was going to be a star. Read More...
Pass notesRecyclingThanks to the war in Ukraine, there is a shortage of agricultural chemicals. As each adult produces enough pee annually to fertilise 145kg of wheat, perhaps bodily waste is the answer
Name: Peecycling.
Age: As a term, dates to about 2006; as a practice, centuries old.
Appearance: All yellow.
If this is about peeing while riding a bicycle, I’ve tried it and it doesn’t work. This is about saving and storing your urine. Read More...
US news This article is more than 14 years oldPolar cancer survivor dies 10 years onThis article is more than 14 years oldJerri Nielsen FitzGerald, whose self-treatment while stranded at south pole inspired book and TV movie, dies of cancer at 57An American doctor who treated herself for breast cancer while stranded at the south pole 10 years ago has died from the disease.
Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, whose one-woman battle against cancer was reported around the world, was the only doctor at the Amundsen-Scott south pole station in June 1999 when she found a lump on her breast. Read More...