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Bed & bath: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathsTop amenities: Beach and garden views, two spacious decks, stunning stone hearth fireplaceNearby attractions: UBC Botanical Gardens, Museum of Anthropology, Locarno BeachSitting steps from sandy Locarno Beach, this luxury log home is worth making a trip for, with vaulted ceilings, a stunning stone hearth fireplace, and a piano plus karaoke machine indoors. Wood finishings and stone floors throughout create a rustic charm that feels like an upscale, remote cabin far from civilization, but the location will say otherwise, with easy access to the beach, tree-lined trails, cultural sites, and downtown shopping. With three bedrooms…

Does it seem like more people around you are in their own little audio world? Are you buying AirPods to upgrade old ones every couple of years like you’d replace a worn-out wallet? Companies that make headphones and earbuds, including some of the world’s largest tech companies such as Apple, Samsung and Sony, can expect boom times ahead, according to a new report. S&S Insider, a market research firm, predicts that worldwide sales of these portable audio products will nearly double from where they were last year, $58.41 billion, to $114.81 billion in 2032. In the US, sales are expected to…

The Knicks’ late 1990s-uniforms are iconic, tied forever to the team’s gritty playoff runs and Madison Square Garden’s electric atmosphere. These jerseys kept the classic blue, orange and white color scheme but added a sharper, more aggressive trim that matched the physical style of basketball being played.These unis remind us of the bruises and blood spilled in the Garden during the battles with Miami, Indiana, and Chicago. But instead of embracing that history, the Knicks have leaned into forgettable alternates in recent years, including collaborations with KITH that feel more like cash grabs than what the people want.While those jerseys…

While there’s growing evidence that psychedelic drugs can effectively treat severe mental health conditions, especially in cases where traditional treatments have failed, they still come with downsides.Their hallucinogenic effects can be scary and overwhelming, with dosing sessions lasting several hours. Good treatment is heavily reliant on the individual’s mindset going into a session and the environment in which they receive it. And though it’s rare, psychedelics can sometimes worsen existing mental illness.Mindstate Design Labs is one of a slate of new companies aiming to make safer psychedelics by removing the classic “trip” associated with them. The company is using AI…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back, but New York Times reporter Adam Liptak and former Washington Post editor Marty Baron say the Trump administration is using federal power to control speech and the press.

“The Golden Bachelor” Season 2 Cast: L to R: Andra, Maia and NicolleCourtesy of ABC/DisneyThe Golden Bachelor is back on ABC after a two-year hiatus. The new season, premiering Wednesday, Sept. 24, will introduce viewers to Mel Owens, the show’s new leading man. Who are The Golden Bachelor Season 2 contestants vying for Owens’ heart? Owens is a newcomer to The Bachelor franchise, having been chosen for Season 2 after a friend encouraged him to apply for the show. A former NFL player for the LA Rams, he later became a lawyer specializing in sports-related injury cases. During this period,…

A couple of months ago, the founders behind YC-backed social app Candle were in “pivot hell,” cycling through more than a dozen ideas after joining Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 batch, while the clock on their seed money ticked down. Alex Ruber, previously an engineer at Apple, and Parth Chopra, formerly an engineer at Asana and Twitter, had built multiple projects together, including Encore, a conversational AI shopping tool that got them into YC and with which they raised $2 million. However, while the tech worked, the unit economics didn’t, according to Ruber. “The secondhand shopping space is a tough market…

The nonagenarian actor Dame Joan Collins may have been on to something when she declared “age is just a number”.The deepest dive yet into the biology of a supercentenarian has revealed that even extreme old age can be reached without the brain necessarily faltering or the usual illnesses mounting up.Doctors in Spain conducted a comprehensive suite of tests on Maria Branyas Morera, who was the world’s oldest person before she died at 117 years old last year.They discovered that while her body showed clear signs of extreme old age, a number of biological factors protected her from the diseases that…

Months before the publication of his latest book, Max Porter went on holiday with Cillian Murphy and a mutual friend. “I said, ‘I’ve just finished another novel,’” recalls Porter. “And they said, ‘You’ve only just done one.’ I said, ‘Well, I bang them out fast, then edit them slowly.’” He ended up reading it out aloud, giving them their first glimpse into the “sensejumbled” head of a teen delinquent named Shy, resident of a “shite old mansion converted into a school for badly behaved boys in the middle of bumblefuck nowhere”.Murphy had become close friends with Porter after starring in…