An excellent summary of how badly the Brexit negotiations are going (tags: uk NorthernIreland Europe doom viaFrancescaElston ) Beluga whales adopt lost narwhal in St. Lawrence River (tags: whales ) Advocates hold birthday party for 30-year-old Boston gas leak (tags: gas ) Dietary fiber reduces brain inflammation during aging (tags: diet brain ( Read more... )

Why Whales Got So Big (tags: whales size ocean animals ) NYPD Officers Say There's Proof of Quota-Driven Arrests (And that it drives racist behaviour) (tags: racism police USA OhForFucksSake newyork ) Survivor Mom: Teaching Consent (tags: consent children ) How Famine Under the Nazis Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease (tags: history gluten ( Read more... )

Men better at Scrabble because women play to have fun (tags: gender competition psychology ) Android 8.0 Oreo, thoroughly reviewed (tags: android ) The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like. (tags: thefuture netherlands food agriculture farming ) Documenting three good things could ( Read more... )

'EU pension' planned for people who move between countries (tags: pensions europe ) UK in credit splurge as pay is squeezed (unsecured debt up 10%, spending power down 2%) So, how long until the country collapses into oblivion as people frantically try and keep their lifestyles propped up despite the economy falling apart?
(tags: debt uk ) John ( Read more... )

Engineers develop 'smart glasses' that automatically focus on what wearer sees (tags: glasses Technology ) Arrival director Denis Villeneuve is making the upcoming Dune reboot (tags: movies scifi ) Carrie Fisher's last Harrison Ford story isn't romantic, it's tragic (tags: relationships StarWars sad ) Make of Heaven a Hell: On the First Season ( Read more... )

4 maps that will change how you see migration in Europe (tags: immigration europe maps ) 19-Sep-82 11:44, Scott E Fahlman invents the ':-)' (tags: emotions history language internet ) Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey is funding Trump’s racist meme machine (tags: politics Technology VirtualReality ) Stanford researchers reveal details about ( Read more... )

French court suspends 'burkini' ban (tags: france women clothing law ) Plasma wings could change the way airplanes are designed and flown (tags: Technology physics airplanes ) Human-induced global warming started in 1830 (tags: globalwarming history ) Do you suffer from "The wrong emotion"? (tags: emotions happiness viaSupergee depression life ( Read more... )

• TV's changing? Not so fast….
  (tags: tv society )
• How getting a diagnosis can help someone to take control of their life.
  (tags: aspergers mentalhealth diagnosis )
• Meta-Shakespeare is the best Shakespeare
  (tags: shakespeare )
• On abusers, and their limits
  (tags: abuse )
• Scottish independence: The currency debate, claim by claim
  (tags: Scotland ( Read more... )

• The same actress playing different teenage girls for over twenty years.
  (tags: tv age )
• Gorgeous art of the same house in many different kinds of weather
  (tags: art weather )
• What it's like to work with a bear who's a _teensy_ bit of a diva.
  (tags: animals tv gameofthrones )
• The Archbishop of Canterbury is innumerate
  (tags: religion money credit ) ( Read more... )

• The spider that can process things too complex to fit in its brain all at once.
  (tags: intelligence spiders cognition )
• What the recent paper on statistical interpretations of quantum physics means. (I skipped the equations).
  (tags: science physics quantum )
• The cool twists of language
  (tags: language english )
• Should swearing be against the law ( Read more... )