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index.feed.received.today — 7 mai 2025

Pollen is everywhere. But do I have allergies or a cold?

2 mai 2025 à 17:36

The ‘worst allergy season ever’ in the US. A ‘pollen bomb’ in the UK. I asked experts how to tell if a runny nose is the result of allergies or a virus

Ah, spring. A time of thawing and rebirth, of blooms bursting forth from frost. Days become longer, warmer and – oh no, what’s this? A tickle in your throat. Pressure building in your sinuses. A runny nose. A sneeze. Another sneeze. Was there ever a time before sneezing?

But is it allergies or a cold? Beautiful as springtime may be, the emerging greenery can also expel waves of allergens. So how can you tell if your runny nose is the result of unruly pollen or a virus? Are you infectious or is your immune system overreacting to an outside stimulus?

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© Photograph: Carol Yepes/Getty Images

Is muscle soreness after a workout good or bad?

29 avril 2025 à 18:00

When it comes to workouts, how much pain – specifically, how much post-workout soreness – is actually a good thing? The answer: it depends

Humans have long glamorized suffering, hailing it as an essential ingredient of growth. In the ancient Greek tragedy Elektra, Sophocles wrote: “Nothing truly succeeds without pain.” In the 1980s, the actor and aerobics instructor Jane Fonda told people: “No pain, no gain.”

But when it comes to workouts, how much pain – specifically, how much post-workout soreness – is actually a good thing? The answer: it depends.

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© Photograph: da-kuk/Getty Images

How to pick a pope - podcast

The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood talks through the pomp and the politics of the conclave: the process to elect Pope Francis’s successor

On Wednesday, 133 cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to select the next pope.

It is called the conclave and it is one of the oldest election processes in the world. For days – perhaps even weeks – the cardinals in Rome will vote again and again until one candidate wins a two-thirds majority. Then, and only then, will they be named as the successor to Pope Francis.

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© Photograph: Fabio Frustaci/EPA

Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight

Human rights groups have called conditions in the country’s network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”

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Martyr’s Square in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, last month. The country remains divided after years of civil war following the 2011 overthrow of its longtime dictator, Muammar Gaddafi.

Test de Mayhem Mail – Le facteur perd les pédales (et ses lettres)

Par :Riggs
6 mai 2025 à 23:48
Quand le courrier part en sucette, il faut bien un héros pour remettre de l’ordre dans les boîtes aux lettres. C’est là qu’intervient Mayhem Mail, un petit jeu de plateforme-action en 2D qui vous met dans la peau d’un facteur bien nerveux, lancé dans une tournée infernale à travers 60 niveaux d’un seul écran chacun.
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Test de Fit and Fry – Quand le casse-tête sent un peu le brûlé

Par :Riggs
6 mai 2025 à 23:36
Vous aimez cuisiner et torturer votre cerveau avec des casse-têtes ? Fit and Fry a probablement attiré votre attention. Le pitch ? Vous devez caser des ingrédients de formes diverses dans une poêle, comme un chef qui jouerait à Tetris avec son dîner.
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Test de Mayhem Mail – Le facteur perd les pédales (et ses lettres)

Par :Riggs
6 mai 2025 à 23:48
Quand le courrier part en sucette, il faut bien un héros pour remettre de l’ordre dans les boîtes aux lettres. C’est là qu’intervient Mayhem Mail, un petit jeu de plateforme-action en 2D qui vous met dans la peau d’un facteur bien nerveux, lancé dans une tournée infernale à travers 60 niveaux d’un seul écran chacun.
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index.feed.received.yesterday — 6 mai 2025

The Zelenskyy-Trump deal – podcast

Is the mineral deal between Ukraine and the US a win-win? Andrew Roth reports

After the heated exchange between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office in February, the prospect of a deal between the US and Ukraine was uncertain.

“Every week, it feels like we get a new position from Donald Trump,” Andrew Roth, the Guardian’s global affairs correspondent based in Washington DC, tells Michael Safi. “Sometimes we get multiple new positions from Donald Trump in a single morning. Nobody really believed that that was going to happen until the two names were on the dotted line.”

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© Photograph: Telegram/@ermaka2022/AFP/Getty Images

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How to start … anything: expert tips for trying something new

5 mai 2025 à 18:00

From therapy to running and conversing with strangers, we asked experts what the basics are of starting anything new

The hardest part of any new habit or activity is starting it. Do you need special equipment? How do you know if you’re doing it right? What are the basics you need to master before you can take your practice to the next level?

In the series How to start, we ask experts to break down how to start, well, anything – including weightlifting, running, dating and talking to strangers.

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© Composite: The Guardian/Carmen Casado

© Composite: The Guardian/Carmen Casado

From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative, unsellable art – podcast

The artist Jeremy Deller can’t really draw or paint. Instead of making things, he makes things happen. And later this year, he is planning to unleash a bacchanalian festival that will be his most daring public artwork yet

By Charlotte Higgins. Read by Richard Coyle

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© Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

© Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Récap de nos tests du mois d’avril 2025

Par :Riggs
2 mai 2025 à 16:19
Après un gros mois de mars très riche en sortie, on s’est dit qu’on avait malheureusement encore une très grosse backlog de tests à finir sans compter un nombre impressionnant de sorties programmées. Bref, le mois d’avril fut chargé avec pas moins de 88 jeux et 2 accessoires en test. La note moyenne des tests est à 52,70 ce qui est assez classique, même si la note médiane à 56 indique qu’on a des extrêmes côté note entre du très bon et du très mauvais… NOTE MOYENNE 52,70 NOMBRE TESTS 88 NOTE MINI 1 NOTE MEDIANE 56 NOTE MAXI 95…
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‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’

2 mai 2025 à 11:00

A remark about Rule, Britannia! led to uproar but the star musician is concentrating on the joy and power of classical music. As his first book is published, he talks to Charlotte Higgins

Read an exclusive extract from Kanneh-Mason’s new book

I saw Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s cello case before I saw him – strapped to his back, making him taller. While we talked, the instrument sat beside us, like a temporarily silent twin. A few weeks before, though, I’d heard it sing in the Barbican, London, as he swept through Shostakovich’s first cello concerto with the Czech Philharmonic, the piece with which he won BBC Young Musician nine years ago.

It is hard to believe Kanneh-Mason is still only 26: he is touring with some of the best orchestras and conductors in the world, has an MBE, is a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and, for the two billion people who watched, is the young cellist who played at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding.

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© Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

© Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

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