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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(Mostly) Star Trek ship recognition chart

Doctor Who video game easter eggs

I like these NASA posters

"Woman forced to remove burkini on Nice beach by armed officers" (Really? Or was this a setup? I mean, who goes to a stony beach, lies down in a burkini without a book or even a towel to lie on? It doesn’t quite stack up to me.)

United Nations ( Read more... )

Seven Fantasy / SF Epics That Can Inform You About The Real-World Political Scene

The Jewish Chronicle gets hold of the report into Labour anti-semitism that the Corbynistas tried to bury

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Getting onto Stanford's MBA course. (I’m not involved in admissions, but I can’t imagine that any of my MBA students had to do anything ( Read more... )

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

One of our local ( Read more... )

The Class of '92's Lost Genius

"Actually it was *Advanced* Dungeons and Dragons that I played”, clarifies Gove.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of Uganda.

14 tips for aspiring humanities academics.

To a leftard, "all lives matter" is racist.

Some idiot left the floodlights on all night before the Euro2016 final. Moth-based hilarity ensued. (By half- ( Read more... )

Why bad ideas refuse to die.

Whatever happened to William 'The Refrigerator' Perry?

No, the British did not "frantically" google what the E.U. is hours after voting to leave it.

New Robin of Sherwood audio drama with original cast. (We’re working our way through the boxed set in preparation!)

Gordon Murray has died. No, not the bloke who designed the ( Read more... )

The latest target of the PC police - Gilbert & Sullivan.

"Controversy as Chester Zoo opens 'Wrexham Scally Enclosure'". (I should point out that Homo Wrexhamius Scalliensis Chavus is pretty much confined to the southern part of Wrexham, not the nice bit where I’m from…)

Why Gandhi is such an asshole in Civilisation.

The Curious Case of the (Medieval) ( Read more... )

Testing Godwin's Law

The McLaren F1 needs a 20 year old Compaq laptop

The pilot episode of Korgoth of Barbaria. Why didn’t this make it as a series? It’s great!

The Game of Thrones title sequence, done with slime moulds

Those Finns sure like their metal.

"Dr Heimlich saves choking woman with manoeuvre he invented."

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Here's a clever way to make interstellar travel real.

"Around 50% 'hold authoritarian views'". Sounds shocking. What’s more shocking is the ignorance of the researchers (three politics professors no less, albeit from second rate universities) as to what constitutes “authoritarian”. Authoritarians would presumably favour powerful state control, right ( Read more... )

"Stabbing victim pulls knife out of own neck, kills terrorist"

Celebrating "the diversity of world culture" is now racist, apparently.

Then and Now photos of my hometown of Wrexham

Recommending someone for an award is now a heinous crime, apparently.

A 1984 television programme shows us how to send an email.

Interesting article for those of you, like me ( Read more... )