GamesEntering a crowded field, the Nintendo Famicom came to dominate the market in the 1980s, leaving a family orientated legacy that continues to be felt today When the Nintendo Famicom, known abroad as the Nintendo Entertainment System, was launched on 15 July 1983, it entered a market crowded with formidable rivals. Six other consoles were released in Japan that year, including the Sega SG-1000, which arrived on the same day and would later be redesigned as the Master System in the west.

Life and styleA fast way to unclog the system, or a crazy fad?What the doctors say· When we digest a high-fat, red-meat diet, or one too many gin and tonics, our bodies, according to Dr Richard Anderson, architect of the Clean-Me-Out programme, adopt protective tactics, secreting mucus along the alimentary canal to prevent toxin absorption. · If we eat the right food - mainly raw fruit and vegetables - this mucus should disperse.

A letter to ...Family‘Your wife has kept us at a distance’: the letter you always wanted to write We fought lots as children and happily caused chaos for Mum and Dad. As we got older, we became mates, thick as thieves. As adults, you were the one I would ring if I had a problem, or needed advice or just a chat. Later, I introduced my husband to our family and you got on so well that sometimes it felt as if it was you and him who were siblings.

Well actuallyHarsh overhead lights can give you the sunken, ghoulish appearance of the undead – and you really don’t need them Everyone hates overhead lights. Former creative director of JCrew and current Real Housewife of New York Jenna Lyons said she refuses to have them in her home. Drew Barrymore said nothing makes her angrier. On TikTok, overheads – or any light fixture that is attached to the ceiling – are often referred to as “the big light”, due in part to a 2022 video from Australian TV presenter Gemma Driscoll in which she shows off the various soft, colorful, eye-level light sources in her home while explaining in a firm voice: “I don’t have many rules for my house, but I do have one, and that is that we never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever use the big light.

Notes & TheoriesScienceCan't stand the rain? How wet weather affects human behaviourRainfall affects our mood, our propensity to commit crime and how hungry we feel – but why? It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring. He bumped his head when he went to bed, and he couldn’t get up in the morning. This was possibly because in the absence of sunlight his body was still producing the hormone melatonin, which makes you sleepy.

The ObserverBooksWriter Emily Rapp Black lost her leg aged four. In her new memoir, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg, she explains how the work of the Mexican artist, also an amputee, helped her develop a better relationship with her body Scroll down for a Q&A with Emily Rapp BlackDesnudo de Frida Kahlo by Diego Rivera hangs in a small museum in Guanajuato, Mexico. In this portrait, Frida’s torso is taut and slim; the sides of her waist curve inward, creating perfect hollows for each of your hands.

Los Angeles holidaysShot in more than 40 locations in LA, the musical La La Land is ‘a love letter to the city’, according to its producer. To coincide with the UK release, we asked a local writer to pick some of the film’s iconic settings Spoiler alert: some plot points are revealed in this article. Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange La La Land’s opening scene is a six-minute dance number to the song Another Day of Sun, that plays out amid LA’s notoriously bad traffic.

Australia news This article is more than 9 years oldMH370 families in drive to raise $5m to entice 'whistleblower' to solve mysteryThis article is more than 9 years oldDistraught families fear a cover-up and hope 'Reward MH370' campaign encourages insider to come forward Several families of those aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 launched a drive on Sunday to raise $5m for any insider who can resolve the mystery of the plane's disappearance three months ago.

ScienceObituaryRobert MahlerFacing the challenges of medicine and operaThe clinical scientist Robert Mahler, who has died aged 81, was a great-nephew of the composer Gustav Mahler. Born in Vienna, into a family assembled from the far reaches of the Austro-Hungarian empire, he was given a chemistry set and de Krief's The Microbe Hunters on his ninth birthday, and resolved to become a physician and biochemist, an ambition encouraged by his surgeon father.

OpinionAustralia news This article is more than 8 years oldA racist carrot reclaims AustraliaThis article is more than 8 years oldFirst Dog on the MoonOne morning, a carrot woke up and felt even more racist than usual. Then he discovered that Australia was facing an insidious threat Free speech! Illustration: First Dog on the MoonncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaJuforqmutOiqp%2BqlZp8c3yQbmaaqKJkfXh7wGapmpuZqMFur8CrqaisXaeypLjAoqSsZZGqwLW%2BwKWgmg%3D%3D