Authorities in New Zealand tried using songs by Barry Manilow and James Blunt to disperse protesters, reported Sky News. “Freedom convoy” demonstrators set up a camp on the grounds of the country’s parliament to protest against vaccine mandates. But when officials used a sound system to blast out songs by Manilow and Blunt on a loop, the protesters simply responded by dancing.
You’re more likely to get a date than meet an alien
Researchers have applied the Drake equation – a formula used to assess the chances of finding alien life in our Milky Way – to the mathematics of dating. They found that if you are an averagely-attractive Birmingham resident and happy to settle for a man with most of his own teeth aged 30-50, then the chance of you finding love is almost five times as likely as the chance of advanced alien civilisations existing within 1,000 light-years of Earth. “The Drake equation is just a way of narrowing things down,” a researcher told The Times.
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