How to detect a bomb - wave your arm

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Afternoon all, We have stories of bravery, of longevity and of patterns in history today. When the British troops were on patrol in Afghanistan somebody had to be up front checking for explosives in the ground. That person was 20-year-old Chris Scott. He explained his tactic to us. The Taliban would always leave some sort of marker near to where they had planted a device, so they could remember where the bombs had been placed. If anything looked suspicious, Chris would lie down on his front on the floor and try to reach out with his hand as far as possible. He did this to try to get the blast area away from his face. The role of looking after the platoon, he explains, made him feel important. The man who found 100 bombs

There's a town where people live 10 years longer than most Americans and don’t tend to get chronic illness until very late in life. In that town almost half of the residents are Seventh Day Adventists. Coincidence? Well it seems they have a pretty healthy lifestyle. One of the leaders of the church back in the 19th Century said she had dreams and conversations with God advising against salt and alcohol. She also called tobacco a slow insidious, malignant poison in 1864. That was 100 years before the US surgeon general first broached the topic. Loma Linda: The secret to a long healthy life?

Acclaimed war photographer and film-maker Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya in 2011. But, six years before, he went to India and Sri Lanka to document how people had dealt with the Tsunami.

Here’s what he saw:

Tim Hetherington: Views after the wave

Finally, a game of spot the difference with Lowry’s industrial landscapes from more than 50 years ago and China today. Here’s a Salford street scene in 1959:

And a similar smog, but this time in present-day China:

And here’s a detail from Lowry’s painting Rising Street:

And a real life cyclist of 2014 called Cai Su Yun in Nanjing:

OK, they aren’t exactly the same but you get the point. Why China sees itself in Lowry's paintings of industrial Britain     In case you missed it... ... here are few articles we published over the weekend: A Point of View: Has modern art exhausted its power to shock? A Jewish festival in a town without Jews Inside the 'world's most dangerous' hospital         Meanwhile... See what a graffiti artist did to a town when everyone else moved out Check how many noughts are in a quintillion And Boolean logic is everywhere         That's it from us today.