Following the game plan: Merkel call latest pantomime act in No.10's Brexit's strategy(tags:UK Europe Doom ) A physics lecturer in why humanities courses are better at teaching critical thinking(tags:science humanities thinking academia )I had no idea France was so deeply intertwined with the economies of its ex colonies in Africa(tags:France Africa ( Read more... )

Beware The Curse of The Sweater!(tags:clothing belief weird )Martina Navratilova cries foul over her anti trans words being used to block LGBT rights in Montana(tags:lgbt OhForFucksSake )Rich getting richer while poor get poorer, official figures show(tags:uk inequality )Explained:What is the deal with the new Labour policy on a second Brexit ( Read more... )

At 18 storeys, Mj??sa Tower in Brumunddal to take title of world's tallest wooden building(tags:wood design architecture )Extinguishing fear memories relies on an unusual change to DNA(tags:genetics fear psychology memory )The doctors facing sexual harassment(tags:harrassment doctors )Empire star Jussie Smollett staged hoax attack over salary(tags: ( Read more... )

An interesting discussion of Citizen's Income (for once, read the comments) (tags: GuaranteedIncome libdem ) BBC iPlayer: Viewers now need TV licence to watch catch-up (tags: uk tv bbc ) A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point By Point (tags: tax apple eu ireland ) All Aboard the Most Ridiculous, Most Stupidly Huge Cruise Ship on ( Read more... )

What do you find when you fact-check all of the pro and anti Brexit claims? (tags: lies europe referendum uk ) An actually interesting poll on the EU referendum. I had to think about my answers. (tags: eu poll referendum uk ) Clifford Simak’s City - a science fiction classic that hasn't aged horribly (tags: scifi review dogs viaSupergee ) Your ( Read more... )

Hands-free phone use by drivers equally distracting (tags: phones driving cars safety ) Microsoft Finds Cancer Clues in Search Queries So, should they tell people that they might have cancer?
(tags: cancer data search microsoft ) Clinton and Sanders: Time to move on (tags: politics usa ) The best of Feminist Hacker Barbie (tags: feminism ( Read more... )

Sugar tax: What is the UK's most sugary drink? (tags: sugar drinking uk tax ) Reality Check: How soon can Turkey join the EU? (tags: turkey eu ) Why Osborne’s sugar tax is half baked (tags: sugar tax uk viaPatrickHadfield ) What's going on with the UK and sin taxes? (tags: tax uk viaPatrickHadfield ) I have never wanted to be Taylor Swift more ( Read more... )

• Lollapalooza have Paul McCartney and Metallica co-headlining. This is how they should deal with it.
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• The Top 10 Myths about TTIP
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• Northern Ireland continues to change for the better
  (tags: northernireland politics terrorism uk history )
• Every Nerd's Greatest Nightmare
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• Police pressuring rape victims to drop charges in order to keep their stats high.
  (tags: police rape )
• Court orders UK ISPs to block more piracy sites (Because that worked so well before)
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• Teenage girl's father launches court challenge to make Facebook block her.
  (tags: facebook )
• British terror suspects ( Read more... )

• Hilter's Christmas Photos, 1941
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• A rebuttal of various recent myths about Europe
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• Why Norway's approach to the EU wouldn't actually help the UK
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• Inside the Spartathlon - 245km in 36 hours.
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