Month: January 2025

The teens, identified by news outlets as Honor Ward and Beau Liddell, passed away after visiting a waterfall at Wappa Falls in Yandina, on Australia’s Sunshine Coast, on January 19.

According to a press release from Queensland Police, emergency services arrived at the scene after receiving reports that a 17-year-old girl, Honor, fell off a waterfall at Wappa Falls and failed to resurface around 2:30pm local time.

Beau, who had been at the waterfall with Honor, jumped into the water to try and find her, but police say he then also failed to resurface.

Queensland Fire Department and Police divers began a search and rescue mission at approximately 2:50pm, but it wasn’t until 3:30pm that Honor’s body was found in the water by emergency services.

Four hours later, Beau’s body was found in the water, also unresponsive and deceased.

Both Honor and Beau were former students at the Sunshine Beach State High School, which has said it is ‘heartbroken’ by the loss of the two former students.

Loved ones of both teenagers have spoken out in the wake of the tragedy, with Beau’s father, Adam Liddell, saying his son was ‘liked by everyone’.

“Everyone’s just destroyed at the moment,” he told ABC News.

The grieving father said Adam’s bid to try and help Honor was a reflection of who he was as a person.

“He’d put himself in danger just to help someone,” he said, adding that Beau was one of four siblings.

Honor’s friend, Phoebe Loynd-Andersson, told ABC that Honor was ‘always there for everybody, no matter what she was going through herself’.

Honor got caught in the rapids at the falls (ABC)

“As soon as I met her, she just immediately took me in, and I was just one with her and the group — we all just loved her,” Phoebe said.

“[She] just wanted to be there for other people and she would encourage people.”

Warning signs at Wappa Falls alert visitors to ‘heavy currents, deep water and submerged boulders’, however Adam has argued that there could be ‘more done’ to prevent any similar incidents in the future.

Honor and Beau are not the first people to have died at the swimming spot; at least three other people have lost their lives at Wappa Falls since 2007, ABC reports.

Like, just give me my burger, I don’t need you to fill the table with dry ice or light a ring of fire behind it.

And having the actual food doing the messing about seems like a next level.

But when this ‘zombie’ meat ‘crawled off’ a dinner plate, it wasn’t a weird stunt by the restaurant and the horrifying moment had customers screaming in a viral clip.

Thankfully, it wasn’t the first sign of the zombie apocalypse, but it has absolutely freaked people out.

The science behind the ‘moving meat’

There’s a good explanation for all of this that isn’t ‘the dead have risen’, and even if it was the beginning of the end, you’d be quite glad that patient zero was a chunk of meat with no ability to bite anything.

As for why this particular cut of meat appears to have continued twitching after death, it’s apparently because it’s a fresh cut of flesh being exposed to a lot of salt.

Snopes did a bit of a fact check on this and it seems the neurons were still active in this chunk of meat, meaning it reacted to the sodium ion that can be found in salt and soy sauce.

Yeah, like some kind of science experiment on your dinner plate.

So, the exposure to salt makes the still existing muscles in the meat contract even though it’s dead, allowing the meat to appear as though it’s still alive and flopping around like a zombie.

It’s also suggested the meat we could see in the video had come from a frog, so no wonder it was hopping mad about having been killed and plated up.

Plus, it could be that this footage came from a restaurant doing something called ‘ikizukuri’, where live seafood is prepared.

A great leap for freedom. (Facebook)

It’s normally a process for fish, but it can be done for frogs as well.

So there you have it, this actually could have been precisely what happened to make it seem as though the ‘zombie’ meat was actually moving.

There’s no free will left here, just the rote mechanical triggering of mechanisms soon to decay into uselessness and be consumed to grant some other being a scant few hours of energy before it must consume again.

I’ll just have my meal without the science, thanks.

The incident is one of the most shocking in US political history, with images captured on the day of the tragedy going on to be viewed by millions of people around the world.

Perhaps someone who was more familiar than anyone else with recordings taken on the fateful day was Abraham Zapruder, the man who would capture some of the most detailed footage of the assassination.

What is the Zapruder film?

A fan of the democratic president at the time, Ukrainian immigrant Zapruder had planned to record Kennedy’s motorcade through Dallas, finding himself an elevated spot near Dealey Plaza. From his position, Zapruder was able to capture the motorcade as it travelled down Elm Street in colour.

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While Zapruder was recording, President Kennedy was fatally shot by lone assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

The gruesome footage captures the moment JFK was shot in detail, as well as the heartbreaking aftermath in which his wife Jacqueline Kennedy could be seen gathering fragments of the president’s skull as a Secret Service agent climbed onto the car.

Given the detail in which Zapruder’s film depicts Kennedy’s death, it’s not surprising to learn the 26 seconds of footage became crucial to the subsequent investigation.

It was a key piece of evidence during the 1963 Warren Commission, which concluded Oswald acted alone and even earned Zapruder the title ‘forefather of all citizen journalists’ in the press.

JFK seen with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy on the day of the assassination (Bettmann/Getty Images)

An image taken just moment before the President’s sudden death (Bettmann/Getty Images)

What happened to Abraham Zapruder

As the man who captured a crucial piece of evidence, Zapruder was called to give testimony during the Warren Commission and later 1969 trial of Clay Shaw.

It’s believed that Zapruder had been deeply affected by Kennedy’s killing, with a 2013 story in The Guardian saying the images had ‘haunted’ him in the following years.

“I have seen it so many times,” he said in his testimony at the Warren Commission, adding: “In fact, I used to have nightmares.

“The thing would come every night – I wake up and see this.”

The camera used by Zapruder to capture Kennedy’s assassination (Tom Williams/Roll Call/Getty Images)

As well as handing over the footage to government officials, he would also sell it to LIFE magazine editor Dick Stolley, who recalled how Zapruder was worried the film would be ‘exploited’ if it fell into the wrong hands.

“[Zapruder was] very worried that [the film] would be exploited or used in a way that he would find tasteless and awful if it fell into the wrong hands,” Stolley told PEOPLE of the exchange.

“You could see it — this was a man in absolute torment.”

Zapruder died in 1970 from stomach cancer at the age of 65, having reportedly never used a camcorder again.

The bizarre rings were found on the outskirts of what is now Melbourne, with the meaning behind them long unknown, though scientists have finally uncovered the reasons behind their creation in the first place.

Sadly for any extra-terrestrial fans, the answer isn’t anything otherworldy, though it is an eye-opener.

A new study that was published earlier this month in Australian Archaeology has revealed that the ancient rings were originally created by Australia’s Aboriginal Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people, centuries ago.

These large rings that were found in the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country in the suburb of Sunbury have long been a mystery, as similar rings have been found in the UK and even Cambodia.

It is believed that ancient people living in these areas would dig out and put together earth, that would then form large circles that would measure hundreds of metres in diameter.

Despite nearly 100 being found, it is thought that hundreds of these rings were across Australia, which would have been destroyed during European colonisation.

The remaining rings now hold significant cultural and historical importance to Aboriginal groups in the country, as a reminder of their history.

Researchers and elders of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung culture explain that it reflects on the occupation, colonisation, self-determination, adaptation, and resilience of the people.

Scientists behind the study believe that fully understanding the earth rings involves understanding Aboriginal culture’s insight into the land, and the effect that their ancestors had on the region.

They noted that previous studies suggested that they were ‘sacred locations’, but found that not much from cultural values and landscape perspectives were documented.

Many rings were found in Australia, though some have been discovered in the UK and Cambodia as well (Caroline Spry et al., Australian Archaeology (2025))

Now, a unique excavation of one of these rings has found that it was created anywhere ‘between 590 and 1,400 years ago’, and that Aboriginal people of the time cleared land and plants while scraping soil and rock to create the ring mound.

Stones were arranged by layering rocks too, as the published findings found that campfires would be lit here, while stone tools would be used to move things in the ring.

It is believed by researchers that they could be used on plants and animals, also potentially being used to scar human skin in ceremonies.

In conclusion, they wrote: “The results bring together Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people’s understandings of the biik wurrda cultural landscape and archaeological evidence for cultural fire, knapping, movement, trampling, and tool-use by their Ancestors at the ring.”

The scientists added that the ‘Sunbury Rings’ and its purpose may have faded, but they have instead being replaced by understanding the cultural importance of the area, which has been passed down through generations of the indigenous people.

Well, to be quite frank, it’s more of a bad head week for this lad, as his noggin has swollen to epic proportions following his hair transplant.

Kanah Flex explained that he underwent the popular surgical procedure last Thursday (16th January) at a London clinic where he claims a few celebrities have also had theirs done.

The dancer and artist – who was ‘discovered’ by FKA Twigs and Aaron Sillis while busking in 2014 – then took to TikTok to share an update on his hair journey.

But the comment section was ladened with unflattering comparisons to cartoon characters rather than compliments about his post-surgery look.

As well as saying Kanah resembled Will Ferrell’s character Megamind, others suggested that he was a dead ringer for Roger from American Dad, as well as Squidward from Spongebob.

The creative joined in with the jokes and also poked fun at himself, so it’s clear he’s not taking the comparisons to heart – and to be fair, he was just as gobsmacked by the size of his head.

“I know I’m looking crazy, but trust the process,” he told social media users. “Right now, I’m looking like an alien.”

In another video, Kanah then shared the details of what went down during his hair transplant two days after the procedure had taken place.

Kanah’s head exploded in size after he had a hair transplant (TikTok/@kanahflextv)

“For anyone that’s gonna ask, no – I did not go to Turkey to get my hair done,” he began. “I got my hair done in Wembley, to be exact. Kenton, Harrow.”

Discussing the ins and outs of his day, Kanah explained that he arrived at the clinic around 8.30am in the morning before having a consultation with the team.

After putting his name on the dotted line and signing a waiver, he then had a chat with the doctor who performed the hair transplant.

“We design what I need, we talk about everything I need,” the TikToker said, before revealing the focal point of his procedure was his crown, the highest point of the head.

Hair follicles were taken from the scalp at the back of Kanah’s napper, which is known as the ‘donor area’, before being implanted at the top of his head.

“My hairline was actually alright to be honest, it was literally just mainly my crown and my donor area,” Kanah continued. “If I brought my hairline forward it would have meant that they’d have to take more grafts – a graft is two hairs.

The London-based lad shared the details of his procedure on social media (TikTok/@kanahflextv)

“I got 4,000 grafts done, so that means 8,000 hairs have been implanted into my head.”

Kanah opted against lowering his hairline to avoid enduring further grafts as well as the potential of making his hair ‘less dense at the top’.

Before the surgery got underway, he explained that he was given a buzz cut – and he was pretty ‘excited’ about this part, as he had never seen himself bald before.

The dancer recalled how anaesthesia was then administered several times in various points around his head, saying: “I could just feel my head swelling, like a balloon. After a while I stopped feeling it.”

Little did he know, that wouldn’t be the last he’d see of the swelling.

Kanah – who says his hair transplant was ‘easy’ and finished in around four hours – has been sporting a headband since the procedure, which is supposed to prevent swelling from spreading to the face and eyes.

Patients usually wear them for at least three days to keep the area stable, as well as to reduce the risk of bleeding and oedema (fluid retention) by applying gentle but consistent pressure.

Dr Emrah Cinik, who runs a hair transplant surgery in Turkey, explained that this swelling ‘usually isn’t a health risk’ as it generally subsides within a few days, while it can actually ‘indicate that the body is healing’.

His website states: “Any surgical procedure, including a hair transplant, causes tissue damage that triggers an inflammatory response. This response leads to fluid and immune cell accumulation in the affected area, which can spread to the face, causing oedema.

“To minimise the pain of hair transplantation, anaesthetics are injected into the scalp. These fluids, along with certain solutions used for graft handling, can accumulate and contribute to oedema.”

However, you should consult a healthcare professional if the swelling persists or you start to experience any other concerning symptoms. Luckily, oedema does not affect the success of a hair transplant.

In his latest update shared yesterday (19 January), Kanah said the swelling was ‘going down to his eye’, while adding: “I look like I just did ten rounds with Mike Tyson.”

Get well soon, lad – let’s hope his new head of hair is worth it.

As a 29-year-old, I feel personally attacked by Gen Zers – born from 1997 to 2012 – who have pointed out something I do all the time.

Dubbed the ‘millennial pause’, it’s what happens when you click record on your camera and briefly pause before you start speaking in the video.

Explained perfectly by video-making software company Biteable, it said: “The millennial pause is a term that has been coined to jokingly refer to the pause that a lot of Millennials leave at the beginning of their talking head videos.

“Attention spans are so short now, especially on platforms like Shorts and TikTok, so when you leave that Millennial pause in your videos a lot of your viewers lose interest.

“Pausing before you start a video clip is totally normal, but edit that pause out before you go ahead and post it.”

What do Millennials have to say about the Millennial pause?

Although the term is simply poking a bit of fun at Millennials, it’s safe to say that we are not impressed.

Over on social media, one person said: “It’s honestly so sad that people’s attention spans are so short that they are losing interest from a millisecond of a pause at the beginning of a video. Kind of ridiculous if you ask me.”

“I am ok with people who can’t wait for 1 to 2 seconds to leave,” a second agreed.

“If I recording a talking head video, and someone loses interest in 1 second, then that person is not the right audience for a talking head video. They are looking for an action video.”

Even one Gen Zer said: “I’m a genz and I can’t keep up with how fast media spits out information nowadays. Plz keeping pausing, millennials, I’m here for it.”

Taylor Swift does the Millennial pause

Content creator Nisa (@nisipisa) shared a video of Taylor Swift, 35, doing the Millennial pause and many of her fans only just realised.

“I am obsessed with the fact not even Taylor ‘the’ Swift is immune to the inevitable Millennial pause,” the TikToker said.

The Avengers do the Millennial pause

Taking to TikTok, user Melia (@suprememelia) shared a clip of the cast of The Avengers all doing their version of the so-called Millennial pause.

The likes of Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson all do their version of it as Gen Zers joked: “I thought you were supposed to say ‘is this thing on’ or ‘is it recording’ then acting awkward for five seconds.”

Watching Littler – known by his nickname ‘Luke the Nuke’ – play, it’s often easy to forget just how young he is. The Warrington native cruised past Michael van Gerwen, a big name in the darts industry I’m told, in order to win the Championship earlier this month, playing as though he has decades of experience under his belt.

Despite being a pro at a sport typically played in pubs, Littler would have to be knocking back soft drinks while he practices as at just 17 years old, he’s not even legally able to get himself a pint.

This will all change from tomorrow (21 January) when the teenager reaches his 18th birthday, a milestone which is commonly seen as the moment you finally become an adult.

Being one of the world’s most recognised darts players, this birthday will also bring more opportunity for Littler as he’ll now be able to decide whether or not he wants to accept alcohol or gambling sponsors.

As we mentioned before, darts is a game commonly found in pubs, which means it shouldn’t come as a surprise that alcohol brands are willing to sponsor players. And given the fact that betting often goes hand-in-hand with sports, it’s no surprise either that gambling sites will pay big bucks to slap their logos on players’ shirts.

Due to the 18+ nature of both of these activities Littler has so far missed out on these sponsorships, instead sporting endorsements from the likes of Xbox, Target Darts, boohooMAN, KP Nuts and Sidemen.

So it’s hardly like he’s missing out.

Which means more sponsorship opportunities for the teenager (James Fearn/Getty Images)

But with age comes responsibility and Littler will from tomorrow be able to decide whether or not he wants to endorse any alcohol brands or gambling sites alongside his current sponsorships.

So if you suddenly see him rocking Fosters or Paddy Power logos on his shirt next tournament, now you know why.

Should he choose to take them on then Littler’s earnings could skyrocket even further, but given the size of the teenager’s following, he’s likely to rake in the cash regardless of the brands he choses to endorse.

“Luke is a generational darts talent and he’s already achieved remarkable things,” sports marketing consultant Daniel Tunna told The Sun last year.

“If he is at the summit of the darts world for 20 years, he could be well on the way to amassing a £40million fortune.”

No, I’m not making some mad reference about it being Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day, but the fact it’s the last week of The Traitors.

You can’t deny we’ve had a great run this season, from Alexander falling in the bush and Linda’s Oscar-worthy acting, to the death match. And I mean, even Charlotte’s fake Welsh accent.

But it seems we might still have a treat to come as fans think they’ve worked out a huge twist in the next episode that will completely change the game as we know it.

So, towards the end of the last episode on Friday (17 January), we got a bit of a preview of what the final instalments of the season will bring. And this included our queen Claudia Winkleman stunning the last of the contestants with a bit of a bombshell announcement.

At yet another round table scene, the presenter said: “I’m going to award one of you with an extraordinary power that has the potential to turn the entire game on its head.”

I know, sounds juicy right?

And of course, as we all do the painful wait for the next episode on Wednesday, there’s rumours flying around over just what power Winkleman is about to award.

Some viewers had noticed that during the recent episode, the cameras had given us a close-up on some of the many books on the shelves of the castle’s library.

People reckon it was deliberately done to give us a look of a book titled The Seer.

Making the observation, SuperTV wrote on X of the game ‘Werewolf’: “The Seer is arguably the most powerful and important Villager. The Seer targets a player, and the Moderator silently indicates whether that player is a Villager or a Werewolf. The Seer must then find a way to use that knowledge to help the Villagers, without becoming the next target themselves.”

Also known as Mafia, the game is what The Traitors is actually based on.

Could this be a clue of the ‘power’? (BBC)

So, if Winkleman does make someone ‘The Seer’, they might have the chance to uncover the Traitors’ identities. Although, that could make them more of a target as they try to persuade others.

Plus, it’s worth pointing out that in the final, those banished can’t reveal their identity so the Seer will have to hope they have their fellow Faithful’s trust.

But who knows what the producers are going to hit us with, one fan speculated the power could be ‘to unbanish or resurrect a faithful’.

Only two more sleeps to find out…

This bold move from the TV star will be for a new documentary exploring the issue and its effect on women and girls.

Pattison is going to direct, produce and distribute her own explicit video using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to superimpose her face onto the actor portraying her likeness.

Best known for appearing on Geordie Shore back in the day, the 37-year-old says she’s ‘wrestled with this decision’ for quite some time.

But she has ultimately (and bravely) decided to go ahead with it to give some insight into what actual victims go through.

Pattison will share the pornography in order to learn more about how this kind of deepfake content spreads and the processes involved in attempting to get it taken down.

“I am hugely passionate about women’s issues and have found myself increasingly disturbed by how prevalent the problem of deepfake porn is becoming,” the star said.

“This is just the latest trend in the abuse of women and having met some of the inspirational women who have put their lives back together after being victims of sexually-explicit deepfake abuse, I feel more strongly than ever that we need to stand with these women and continue to put pressure on the greater powers within the Government to catch up with the speed at which this technology is advancing.

“As part of the documentary, I have made the challenging decision to release my own deepfake sex tape online, which I directed and produced with actors to ensure the process was fully consensual from start to finish.”

In sharing the content on social media, Pattison has had to accept the fact it may live online forever.

Her documentary will release later this month (Joe Maher/Getty Images for BFC)

She continued: “Whilst I know this doesn’t compare to the distress and horror actual victims feel when they discover this content of themselves, I hope it will give some insight into what they go through.”

This will be part of a Channel 4 documentary titled Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape which is aiming to ‘bring attention to the imbalance of power and encourage society, lawmakers and tech companies to provide stronger protections and support for those who are affected’.

Pattison added: “My goal is to foster empathy and drive action, and to contribute to a larger movement for justice and change, so victims feel supported, understood and empowered to reclaim their voices and control.”

During the documentary she meets women who have found themselves subject to image-based abuse and deepfake porn.

Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape will be available to watch and stream on Channel 4 at 10pm on 28 January.