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Snoop Dogg arrived in Scotland on Thursday to begin the European leg of his I Wanna Thank Me arena tour. The Long Beach rapper was welcomed to Scotland by a bagpiper who played Snoop his 1999 collaboration with Dr. Dre, “Still D.R.E.” The Death Row Records boss took to Instagram to share a video of […]
Five years ago, paleontologist Amelia Penny struck gold in Scotland’s Isle of Skye when she noticed a fossilized jaw amongst the terrain during a field study 2017. Now, the near-complete fossil reveals a 170 million-year-old prehistoric flying reptile that is “the largest of its kind ever discovered from the Jurassic period,” according to the National Museum of Scotland. As […]
Katie Leung has opened up about her time playing Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films, saying publicists asked her to deny that she received racist abuse from fans. Appearing on an episode of the Chinese Chippy Girl podcast this week, Leung said she read racist messages from fans when her casting in 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was […]
Scotland made history Tuesday by becoming the first country to make menstrual products free and easily accessible for anyone who needs them. CNN reports the Scottish parliament has unanimously passed the Period Products Bill, which requires products like tampons and pads to be available in public facilities free of charge. According to government estimates, the legislation could cost about £8.7 million, or $11.6 million […]
Sean Connery, the man who helped James Bond become a household name, has died. He was 90. Per BBC, the Scottish actor had been “unwell for some time” and died peacefully in his sleep in the Bahamas. His son, Jason Connery, said that the actor had “many of his family who could be in the Bahamas around him” […]
A sperm whale that washed up on the shores of a Scottish island last week was discovered to have 220 pounds of trash in its stomach. As CNN reports via the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme, the young whale died last week after it washed up on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides, […]
The first release from the three-strong Nike BSMNT Air Max 90 City Pack is set to hit the streets imminently, putting the spotlight on Glasgow. Back in 2017, London-based creative community The Basement widened their scope and set the pace with their first Nike collaboration in the form of the Nike BSMNT Dunk Low. The […]
The same researchers who hinted that they might have found proof that the Loch Ness Monster is real now believe that Nessie might in fact be a giant eel. CNN reports that researchers studied DNA samples from the lake in Scotland where Nessie allegedly lives and discovered that “there are large amounts of eel DNA […]
Facebook users are on a mission to confirm the world’s most popular myths. Weeks after “Storm Area 51” gained national headlines, a man named Bryan Richards created another group that aims to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, aka Nessie. The event, which is titled “Storm Loch Ness, Nessie can’t hide from us all,” has […]
Researchers in New Zealand are hinting they might have found proof that the Loch Ness Monster is real. In a series of cagey quotes that should dampen the hopes of any crypto-crazy folks out there, lead researcher Neil Gemmell from the University of Otago said that they disproved several theories about the monster while possibly […]
