Miscellaneous:Why It's Easy - And Hard - To Get A Postcard All The Way From Timbuktu - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/22/647059008/why-its-easy-and-hard-to-get-a-postcard-all- ( Read more... )

Food:

How Breakfast Became a Thing - https://priceonomics.com/how-breakfast-became-a-thing/ I always knew the breakfast thing was suspicious.

Healthcare:Treating children with electroconvulsive therapy - Read more... )

Archaeology:

'Oldest' Iron Age gold work in Britain found in Staffordshire - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-39113201

Food and Drink:Why tomato is the world's favoured fruit - Read more... )

History:A United Kingdom: The interracial marriage that made front page news ( Read more... )

Award Ceremonies:

Jackie Chan awarded honorary Oscar - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37253382 I suspect I may have shared this before.

History:Slum photographs spark charity appeal - Read more... )

Oh, you thought I was joking about the number of links ;)

Data visualisation:A Compendium of Clean Graphs in R - http://shinyapps.org/apps/RGraphCompendium/index.php?utm_content= ( Read more... )

Films:

Why a Bollywood film has been accused of distorting history - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-37273221

Health:These charts show how much of your life you will spend being sick ( Read more... )

Miscellaneous:Miss Fa'afafine: Behind Samoa's 'third gender' beauty pageant - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37227803Read more... )

Still late, but now some are from September

History:

How John Hersey's Hiroshima revealed the horror of the bomb - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37131894

Miscellaneous:Wie Vornamen die Schweiz erobern und wieder verschwinden - Read more... )

Still late, still August, still mostly Olympic

Culture:

The Tibetan nomad traditions defying the modern world - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-36938787

Geography:Louisiana Flooding: Is This the State's New, More Accurate Map? - Read more... )