Scottish Premiership striker Kris Boyd has become the latest in a line of footballers including Wayne Rooney and James McFadden to have a hair transplant.
The Kilmarnock star was inspired to have the procedure after seeing the transformation of McFadden, who he said was “a lot balder” than himself, with hair “worse than mine”.
He had 1,762 grafts implanted over the course of two days in the Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) hair transplant at The Glasgow Clinic.
Spot the sheep along arts trail
A public arts trail featuring 70 sculptures of the Aardman Animations character Shaun the Sheep has been launched in Bristol.
The 5ft (1.5m) high statues will be dotted around key landmarks across the South West city to raise money for a hospital charity.
Artist, designers and businesses such as DreamWorks, Thunderbirds and Bagpuss creator Peter Firmin have decorated the sculptures.
Nutty squirrels solve puzzle
Squirrels have shown scientists they really know how to “use their nuts” when searching for food.
A group of five grey squirrels surprised researchers with the speed at which they solved a puzzle involving hidden hazelnuts.
The intelligence test was in the form of a box with 12 sunken wells, four of which were hollow. Nuts were placed in the four hollow wells diagonally across from each other, so that the least efficient way to look for them was by going from well to well in a clockwise or anti-clockwise sequence.
Rescue for man stuck in chimney
Firefighters in Arizona rescued a man who became stuck after trying to re-enter a house through the chimney.
It took 30 minutes for firefighters to free the 23-year-old, who was taken to hospital in a stable condition. The man’s friends locked him out of the house in Phoenix as a prank and he thought he could get back inside through the chimney, fire captain Aaron Ernsberger said.
Phoenix fire department video shows firefighters chipping away at a chimney wall and pulling the man out. The man, completely covered in soot, was able to walk but appeared to be limping.
Creative computers put to test
Can an algorithm pass for an author? Can a robot rock the house? A series of contests at a New Hampshire college is about to find out.
Dartmouth College is seeking artificial intelligence algorithms that create “human-quality” short stories, sonnets and dance music sets which will be pitted against human-produced literature, poetry and music selections. The judges will not know which is which.
The goal is to determine whether people can distinguish between the two, and whether they might even prefer the computer-generated creativity. “Historically, often when we have advances in artificial intelligence, people will always say ‘Well, a computer couldn’t paint a sunset,’ or ‘A computer couldn’t write a beautiful love sonnet’, but could they? That’s the question,” said Dan Rockmore, director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth.
Musical revival for harpsichord
A harpsichord which entertained the elite of Italy in the mid-1500s has been restored by a South Dakota museum and will soon bring its sound to 21st century ears.
The National Music Museum in Vermilion, which acquired the instrument in 2009, worked with Chilean-born musician Catalina Vicens, who specialises in historical keyboards and percussion instruments, to produce the harpsichord’s first full-length recording.
The crowd-funded project resulted in a 20-track disc of compositions that Vicens said would have been performed in Naples when the instrument was in its youth.