Max Verstappen has revealed that he will switch to racing under the number 3 for the 2026 season, with Lando Norris taking over number 1 after beating the Red Bull driver to the title by just two points.
Voor elke blessure gelden andere adviezen. Zo vraagt Tim (33) zich af hoe lang het verstandig is om te googlen naar symptomen over een pijnlijkle rib voordat hij naar de dokter moet.
Volgens online bronnen varieert de aanbevolen zoektijd van ‘maximaal vijf minuten’ tot ‘totdat je zeker weet dat het óf longontsteking óf een afgescheurde tussenribspier is’. Tim zit inmiddels op tweeënhalf uur en heeft al zeven mogelijk dodelijke aandoeningen gevonden, waarvan er drie volgens hem ‘best realistisch’ voelen. “Ik wilde eigenlijk stoppen,” zegt hij, “maar toen kwam ik op een forum waar iemand met precies dezelfde klacht uiteindelijk in het ziekenhuis belandde. Dat moet je dan toch even lezen.”
Het Nationaal Centrum voor Online Zelfdiagnose adviseert om pas naar de dokter te gaan zodra je zoekgeschiedenis begint te bestaan uit combinaties als ‘ribpijn + hoe lang nog te leven’ of ‘is het erg als pijn uitstraalt naar plekken waarvan ik niet wist dat ik ze had’. Tot die tijd is geruststellend verder panikeren op Google toegestaan, mits je af en toe een glas water drinkt.
Met de ZelfZorgWijzer-app van Zilveren Kruis heb je altijd en overal hulp bij gezondheidsvragen bij de hand. Stel je vraag in de app en krijg snel inzicht in je klacht. Of ga direct zelf aan de slag met oplossingen op maat.
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U.S. video game hardware spending fell 27% year over year in November to $695 million, according to market analyst company Circana. "This is the lowest video game hardware spending total for a November month since the $455 million reached during the November 2005 tracking period," Circana says. Furthermore, only 1.6 million units of hardware were sold in the U.S. in November, which is "the lowest total for a November month since 1995 (1.4 million)." The Verge reports: The rising costs of consoles probably didn't help. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series of consoles both turned five in November, but customers looking to pick up one of the consoles brand new are having to grapple with higher prices following price hikes this year. Those hikes have led to an "all-time November high" for the average price paid for a new unit of video game hardware of $439, Circana says -- a number that's up 11 percent from 2024. (In November 2019, the average price was $235, according to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella.)
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A little more than ten years ago, a particularly—shall we say—interesting painting restoration went viral, spawning memes and earning the piece the cringeworthy nickname “Monkey Christ.” The work, known as “Ecce Homo,” is a century-old portrayal of Jesus in a church in Borja, Spain, that a local octogenarian attempted to restore.
The attention “Ecco Homo” brought, which could be viewed as positive or not depending on your perspective, actually bolstered the town’s struggling economy and raised tens of thousands of euros for charity as people pilgrimaged to see the infamously bungled attempt. But it’s far from the only aging artwork to meet disastrous results when someone tried their hand at an update.
For Julian Baumgartner, a second-generation art restorer and owner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, there’s little he hasn’t seen. Crackling varnish? Check. Deteriorating stretcher bars? Check. Stapled edges? Say no more.
When an oval-shaped portrait fell into his hands, with its structural framework crumbling and its canvas stained, that wasn’t even the worst of it. This particular painting had also been unskillfully painted over to freshen it up, despite—as Baumgartner discovers—the fact that the “fix” actually completely changed the entire feel of the work. As he works, he illuminates how the amateur attempt to restore the work actually eliminated the subtle nuances of the artist’s original intention, and by extension, the sitter’s personality.
Baumgartner is based in Chicago and runs what is now the oldest restoration studio in the city. Using archival and reversible materials, he conserves and restores artworks by removing discoloration, camouflaging cracks, repairing holes, and much more.
Via his popular YouTube channel, Baumgartner chronicles the satisfyingly meticulous, step-by-step process he employs to breathe new life into paintings, whether made by anonymous artists to titans of art history. See more updates on Instagram.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Watch Julian Baumgartner’s Satisfying and Precise Process of Restoring a Historical Portrait appeared first on Colossal.
Onderweg naar een double tap-aanslag op de herdenkingsceremonie begeleid door de burgemeester, of misschien zelfs de begrafenis van het jongste slachtoffer, namelijk de 10-jarige Mathilda? Wat hun intenties ook waren, de Australische federale anti-terreurpolitie zag in ieder geval genoeg reden het vijftal met twee jeeps van de weg te rammen en klem te rijden, en bean bags door de ramen te schieten voordat ze languit op het asfalt geboeid werden. De details zijn nog spaarzaam, maar News.com.au (wiki) schrijft: "Heavily-armed police have detained seven men understood to be on their way to Bondi Beach, after intelligence suggested a “violent act” was possibly being planned." Daarentegen schrijft 9News weer dat "Police said they had received information that "a violent act was possibly being planned" but said they had not found any connection "to the current police investigation to the Bondi terror attack"." Ook meldt 9News dat de verdachten volgens ooggetuigen "firearms" bij zich droegen, maar dat is nog niet bevestigd door de politie. Hoe dan ook, ze kwamen niet om te surfen.
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