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'Dragon Girl' Amber Luke says people told her she 'ruined' her good looks

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An Australian woman who totally transformed herself from a ‘innocent’ girl next door to a heavily tattooed adult model has revealed how her extreme ink and body modifications have changed her life. Amber Luke, 27, also known as ‘Dragon Girl’, has spent $250,000 on tattoos, piercings and surgery to achieve the look she wants – but says she faces discrimination in public and at work as a result. He told Brisbane radio show Robin, Terry & Kip last week that having 600 tattoos, which cover 99 percent of his body, sometimes makes his daily life challenging. A woman who transformed herself from a ‘innocent’ girl next door to a heavily tattooed adult model has revealed how her extreme ink and body modifications have changed her life Amber Luke, 27, is pictured here before she spent $250,000 on tattoos, piercings and surgery to become the ‘Dragon Girl’. She said she faced discrimination in public and at work because of her appearance “I get a lot of tattoos, but I don’t harm a

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke has lost a bit of her brain. How do people survive and thrive after a brain injury?

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In a recent interview, Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke talked about being able to live “absolutely normal” after two aneurysms – one in 2011 and one in 2013 – caused brain injuries. He went on to undergo two brain surgeries. An aneurysm is a bulge or balloon in the wall of a blood vessel, often accompanied by a headache or severe pain. So how can people survive and thrive despite having, as Clarke puts it, “a little bit missing” from their brain? The key to understanding how brains can recover from trauma is that they are highly plastic – meaning our body’s supercomputer can reshape and remodel itself. Read more: Growing up in a disadvantaged environment can change children’s brains – and their reactions Our amazing plastic brain The brain can adapt and change in extraordinary ways. You do it now as you form new memories. It’s not that the brain has evolved to deal with brain trauma or stroke or aneurysm; our ancestors usually died when that happened and may not

Human-like robots trick people into thinking they have a mind of their own

Study co-author Agnieszka Wykowska poses with the “self-aware” iCub robot. (Image credit: Italian Institute of Technology) (opens in a new tab) A human-like robot that has been programmed to interact socially with human companions is tricking people into thinking that mindless machines are self-aware, according to a new study. The digital cheater, which the researchers dubbed the “iCub,” is a child-sized humanoid robot created by the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa to study social interactions between humans and robots. This state-of-the-art Android, which is 3.6 feet (1.1 meters) tall, has a human-like face, camera eyes that can maintain eye contact with people, and 53 degrees of freedom that allow it to complete complex tasks and mimic human behavior. Researchers can program iCubs to act very much like humans, as demonstrated in his 2016 appearance on Italy Has Talent (opens in a new tab) when the robot performs Tai Chi moves and wows the judges with its wit

'They're the perfect couple': Harry and Meghan's wedding cellist wowed 1.9 billion people, then went home to study

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Plain text size Larger text size The text size is very large You can feel how quickly Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s star is rising when he tells you that his days as a music student ended less than 24 hours ago. After performing a final recital for his advanced diploma at London’s Royal Academy of Music the night before, the 23-year-old British cellist was free to continue his stint as one of the hottest properties in classical music. Credit: Today, he’s sitting in a corner office at his record company headquarters in King’s Cross, ready to talk about a new album and an Australian tour. He was wearing black jeans and a Paul Smith monochrome shirt with a pattern that, on closer inspection, was made up of hundreds of tiny faces. The old British menswear statesman and young cellist are both Nottingham natives and have become close friends. Kanneh-Mason was wearing a Paul Smith suit when he appeared and has lent his photogenic face to one of the label’s advertising campaigns. Even if you don’

Big Brother's Reggie Bird Urges People to "Really Vote" for Winner

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Chat to the hook by phone after being announced as one of the Brother Royalties vs New Competitors ‘ The Last Three winner, 2003 Reggie Bird—the last OG left in the game—says he feels “very good” about everything. “Second time round, who would have thought, hey!” he laughed. “I’m so excited, I can’t wait for the final.” Although it seems that Reggie Bird is the key to being the first two times winner Australian sister during a live broadcast on Tuesday, July 12, Bird himself didn’t feel so confident. He laughed. “To be honest, I had some tough competition, you know,” he said. “I just didn’t want to get that in my head and then be let down in the end there. And because people have to vote, that’s the biggest thing, to get me over the line.” Bird went on to say that he was “worried that people will be complacent” and that one of his rivals, Johnson Ashak and Taras Hrubyj-Piper, would sneak in and secure the win. “I’m facing stiff competition, and they just have to come forwar