Science and health journalist at AFP
(@en.afp.com), based in Paris
Daniel Lawler
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One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths
A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths
This is the cool side of the questionably expanded World Cup: learning that a ghost shipwreck full of korgs and moogs on Cabo Verde sparked a new music genre
(I would've headlined it Synthwreck)
www.theguardian.com/music/2016/m...
(I would also read original reporting on what happened to this ship)
Something I never thought I'd see on the Agence France-Presse news wire: Bandiana, a suburb east of the regional Australian town of Wodonga where I grew up.
Great exclusive by @en.afp.com's Australian reporters:
www.straitstimes.com/asia/austral...
🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Iran said on Sunday there was "no point" in peace talks with the United States, accusing it of failing to uphold its commitments and casting doubt on a deal that Donald Trump had insisted would be signed imminently ➡️ u.afp.com/Szcm
Doug Mack
PSA if you're in France and plagued by spam calls: I cannot recommend highly enough an app called saracroche. It has 16m dodgy numbers in its constantly updated database and it *just blocks them*. It's spared me an average of six spam calls a day since I installed it. Brilliant.
This story claims the Chinese show Singer gets 20 billion views an episode... With eight billion people on Earth, that... surely can't be right?
