How 'Big Sugar' bribed Harvard scientists to demonise fat.

Sending the World's Most Important Graph to the Elephants' Graveyard

Labour 'moderates' were able to infiltrate the far left Momentum group (aka Corbyn's stormtroopers). Here's their leaked report.

The strange story of a dead cockroach  at Texas A&M University.

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The French civil servant with only 10% of a brain. (I know that sounds like base political satire, but actually it’s a serious scientific article about a bloke in France who is missing 90% of his brain.)

This couple should get an agent and sell the film rights to Richard Curtis.

Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Roots of Black Lives Matter

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This Oxford University study is fascinating. I've read books on this subject before that came to similar conclusions, but I think I'm right in saying that this is the most detailed study so far ( Read more... )

Worried that you might avoid tax? This helpful guide shows you how to avoid avoiding tax.

Does going to court to change your dead millionaire father's will so you pay less inheritance tax count as "avoiding tax"?

Interesting reviews of all the Gollancz SF Masterworks so far.

5 Misconceptions About #GamerGate and the Truth Behind the Myths

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Immigration will add a city the size of Birmingham to our population every 18 months for the next 75 years.

Pictures paint a thousand lies. And facebook makes it easy for idiots to propagate them. (Thank you to parrot_knight for that one.)

The internet. Not just about porn, kittens on skateboards and idiots.

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Young people lack workplace skills, say British Chambers of Commerce. Schools don’t do enough to engage with the business community, in my opinion. Many are only interested in academic success, sport, music and drama, and think about employability skills once a year if that. So this survey comes as no surprise to me.

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"About 2%" of catholic priests are paedophiles, says the Pope.

The CV is a crap way to recruit staff.

"If it weren't for the wretched EU, Germany would be our strongest European ally."

Manuel Noriega sues Activision over Call of Duty.

New Zealand may abandon two pretty fundamental legal principles.

"Diversity" no longer means what it should.

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The oldest village post office in the country is just up the road from us.

Dr Seuss campaigned for the US to enter WW2.

What an 'Enterprise-gets-hit-by-weird-energy-blast' scene looks like without the camera shake. Watch for the spinning Uhura!

Isn't christianity great!

Downmarket British newspaper libels bestselling American fantasy author. He doesn't ( Read more... )

40 Maps That Explain the Middle-East

What 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' would look like as a Lucasarts point-and-click adventure.

H.R. Giger has died.

Did you spot the Monty Python reference in Game of Thrones? What do you mean, you don't speak Low Valyrian?

I love this illustration of AD&D module G1 'Steading of the Hill Giant Chief'.

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...which is on the Cornish side of the Tamar and (I think) near a minor battle. Cornwall was overwhelmingly Royalist.

A lazy young roundhead from Luckett
Used to carry his gun in a bucket
The road into town
Was held by the Crown
He couldn't be bothered, so **** it.