UK Drivers to be banned from picking up mobile phones(tags:phones driving UK safety )Why Are Some Bilingual People Dyslexic in English but Not Their Other Language?(tags:languages dyslexia ) Who are governments currently borrowing from? And what will happen to it? ( Read more... )

Using architecture AI to design homes(tags:architecture ai )The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 monthsWorth remembering that the Lord of the Flies is about British Public School children.
(tags:behaviour GoodNews niceness history Ocean boys viaElfy ) Iridescent Tempered Chocolate(tags:colour chocolate ( Read more... )

Bright time: Why is the sun less active than other stars?(tags:sun space stars )All 400,000 gowns flown from Turkey for NHS fail UK standards(tags:pandemic Incompetence UK Turkey OhForFucksSake )Plays! Going! Wrong!(tags:theatre fail funny viaEatSoylentGreen )UK's terrible tracing app is relying on an "Android herd immunity" strategy to overcome ( Read more... )

Farmers in the USA are dumping milk in the sewer because they can't sell it. A triumph of capitalism!(tags:capitalism milk food OhForFucksSake pandemic )Life on Mars creator confirms third and final series is in the works(tags:TV ) How the pandemic is hitting the publishing business(tags:business publishing pandemic Doom )Google knows if everyone is ( Read more... )

The Fishy Fix to a Methane-Spewing Crop(tags:rice fish methane globalwarming )Coronavirus: Govt set to release 'contact tracking' app which detects nearby virus carriers(tags:pandemic surveillance UK phones )NHS staff gagged over coronavirus shortages(tags:NHS OhForFucksSake Doom censorship )Edinburgh takes 'profoundly difficult' decision to cancel ( Read more... )

Why broadcast media has an expert problem(tags:experts media journalism UK )Storytelling should not be a thing only professionals do(tags:storytelling society )"I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat (but farm it right)"(tags:meat vegan environment farming )"Can we keep our Father Ted box sets?" ask Guardian readers(tags:transgender LGBT TV ( Read more... )

Technical Debt Is Like a Tetris Game(tags:Tetris programming design ) The messages in recent Doctor Who are *terrible"(tags:drwho writing OhForFucksSake )Gibraltar considers joining EU's Schengen open borders area to ease damage from Brexit(tags:Gibraltar borders europe )"And he asked specifically for eggs" - linguistic diversity in 15th century ( Read more... )

Girl, six, finds plea from Chinese prison slaves inside Tesco kitten Christmas cards(tags:Christmas slavery China Tesco uk ) The problem with people but understanding how frosted glass works. This causes problematic behaviour(tags:glass physics )Giant surveillance balloons are lurking at the edge of space(tags:surveillance balloon stratosphere ) ( Read more... )

How Ken Clarke got Jay Rayner's dad into The Tate (and how his parents appeared in Fiddler on the Roof - after they died)(tags:death theatre art ) "The Toy Show" -an illustrated story about a little kid called Michael who wanted to play with My Little Ponies.(tags:toys children mylittlepony compromise )Have a Russian klezmer cover of Rammstein's Du ( Read more... )

The difference between an expert's brain and a novice's(tags:brain mice )'Horrific' stats show how the vast majority of disability benefit fraud allegations are false(tags:disability fraud welfare OhForFucksSake )Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much(tags:Web advertising ( Read more... )