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1:1 ping pong ball replica

I made a near-perfect replica of a ping pong ball out of clay. ■

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Robert Longo at the Albertina

An exhibition of the huge photo-realistic charcoal drawings of Robert Longo opened today at Vienna’s Albertina. The skill is mind-boggling. Catching my eye was Freud’s couch pillow and a meticulous drawing of a Pollock drip painting. ■

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Alcohol risk made simple

The chance that alcohol damages our health increases rapidly with the amount consumed. Drinking under 140ml a week is estimated to keep the chances of damage below 1/100. The only way to make it zero risk is to not drink any. ■

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Alertness to commercial interests is an essential health defence

Acknowledging that the profit motive warps health information to generate sales can help us lead healthier, more rewarding lives, at lower risk and lower cost.

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UPDATE: Men’s wellbeing charity defends controversial alcohol partnership

Public health professionals have expressed disappointment at a partnership between the UK Men's Sheds Association, which supports social and creative community spaces, and alcohol multinational Diageo.

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Alfred Kubin, the aesthetics of gloom

Life is”a dream and a fear” mused Austrian artist Alfred Kubin, an outlook shown in a new doomscroll of his pen and ink drawings. It seems less the “Aesthetics of Evil”, as the Albertina Modern exhibition is called, but that of unremitting gloom. “I do not work for pleasure, but to forget the disgust I […]

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Avoid pressuring others to drink alcohol

Labels don’t tell us to avoid pressuring other people to drink alcohol. But there are many good reasons to avoid alcohol, not least avoiding harm to our physical and mental health. ■

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Alcohol-free beer in the EU*

At 8.1% France had the EU's highest percentage of its beer production which is alcohol-free last year, according to Eurostat. Germany, which produced three times as much beer, came a close second.

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Alcohol can cause brain damage and dementia

Drinking more than a small amount of alcohol increases the risk of developing dementia in later life and can cause early-onset dementia and brain damage.

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Alcohol Review – issue 105, August 2nd 2024

In this issue: Dementia experts back alcohol price control; Dismay at wellbeing charity alcohol deal; Spain drafts framework to protect minors; German beer market 8% alcohol-free; Indian surrogate ad rules close

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