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The deadly truth about a world built for men from stab vests to car crashes

It wasn’t until 2011 that the US started using a female crash-test dummy. Photograph: Kellie French/The GuardianIt wasn’t until 2011 that the US started using a female crash-test dummy. Photograph: Kellie French/The GuardianWomenCrash-test dummies based on the ‘average’ male are just one example of design that forgets about women – and puts lives at risk When broadcaster Sandi Toksvig was studying anthropology at university, one of her female professors held up a photograph of an antler bone with 28 markings on it.

The Great 2014 Celebrity Nude Photos Leak is only the beginning | Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay columnCelebrity This article is more than 9 years oldThe Great 2014 Celebrity Nude Photos Leak is only the beginningThis article is more than 9 years oldRoxane GayThere will always be another leak, because there is always curiosity in the bodies of naked celebrity women. There is always danger in being an Other Jessica Valenti on Jennifer Lawrence’s naked photo response The Emma Watson nude photos were a hoax, but still a threat Privacy is a privilege.

Willie Nelson: 'I dont believe in closing the border. We have a statue that says: Yall come in

Willie NelsonInterviewWillie Nelson: 'I don’t believe in closing the border. We have a statue that says: Y’all come in'Rebecca BengalAt 85, Willie Nelson still spends half the year on the road and is busy supporting Texan Democrat nominee Beto O’Rourke. And the giant of country music’s 2,500 song catalogue just keeps growing In the Boston suburb of Mansfield, Massachusetts, I am summoned to Willie Nelson’s tour bus a couple of hours before he takes to the stage at the Outlaw music festival.

An avid bowler, a beloved manager: details emerge of Maine shooting victims | Maine shootings

Clockwise: Bill Brackett, Bob Violette, Tricia Asselin, Steven Vozzella and Joseph Walker were named as victims of the Maine shooting. Photograph: Facebook, TwitterClockwise: Bill Brackett, Bob Violette, Tricia Asselin, Steven Vozzella and Joseph Walker were named as victims of the Maine shooting. Photograph: Facebook, TwitterMaine shootings This article is more than 2 months oldAn avid bowler, a beloved manager: details emerge of Maine shooting victimsThis article is more than 2 months oldEighteen people were killed in Wednesday’s shooting, the largest mass shooting of 2023 so far

Camus and his women

Biography booksReviewApart from his books, Albert Camus also liked writing love letters: he was an obsessive womaniser whose constant affairs drove his second wife to mental breakdown. Olivier Todd's new biography reveals all, says Peter LennonWhen Olivier Todd once asked Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus' old Saint Germain des Pres intellectual sparring partner, which of Camus' books he liked best he said: 'The Fall, because Camus has hidden himself in it.'

Caterpillar workers grisly foundry death blamed on training and work conditions | Illinois

Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty ImagesIllinois This article is more than 1 year oldCaterpillar worker’s grisly foundry death blamed on training and work conditionsThis article is more than 1 year oldWorkers say conditions at Illinois facility haven’t changed since Steven Dierkes was incinerated in pot of molten iron in June Just nine days into his new job at Caterpillar’s foundry in Mapleton, Illinois, Steven Dierkes, a 39-year-old father of three, fell into an 11ft-deep pot of molten iron and was incinerated.

Enigma Variations by Andr Aciman review meditations on desire

FictionReviewThe author of the gay cult classic Call Me By Your Name explores one man’s life through his erotic fixations Here is a novel that delivers on its title: these variations on a theme do amount to an enigma. André Aciman is a multilingual American writer and academic who grew up in Egypt, France and Italy, and is best known for Call Me By Your Name, the 2007 debut that became a bestseller and a successful film a decade after publication.

It isnt anti-democratic to bar Trump from office. Its needed to protect democracy | Stev

‘The justices’ job is not to worry about angering the Maga crowd. Their job is to focus on enforcing the text of the constitution and, along with it, preserving our democracy.’ Photograph: Seth Herald/Getty Images‘The justices’ job is not to worry about angering the Maga crowd. Their job is to focus on enforcing the text of the constitution and, along with it, preserving our democracy.’ Photograph: Seth Herald/Getty ImagesOpinionDonald TrumpIt isn’t ‘anti-democratic’ to bar Trump from office.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, star of A Man and a Woman and Amour, dies aged 91 | Movies

Movies This article is more than 1 year oldJean-Louis Trintignant, star of A Man and a Woman and Amour, dies aged 91This article is more than 1 year oldThe veteran of the French new wave starred in a series of auteur-driven films, before appearing in Michael Haneke’s Amour Jean-Louis Trintignant, the French actor closely associated with the European new waves of the 1960s and 70s, has died aged 91. His wife, Mariane Hoepfner Trintignant, announced the news to AFP.

Jessie J named best UK act as she collects four awards at Mobos | Mobos

Mobos This article is more than 12 years oldJessie J named best UK act as she collects four awards at MobosThis article is more than 12 years oldPrice Tag singer is big winner at 16th annual ceremony, with Adele, Tinie Tempah and Rihanna also honouredCritics had complained about Jessie J leading the nominations for the 16th Music of Black Origin awards, but the 23-year old – who is white – was the big winner at the ceremony in Glasgow on Wednesday night.