THIS THIS THIS THIS SO MUCH THIS: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-14481061

Watch the video. What a great man.

Good blog entry. I often forget that the police officers here aren't armed...

Unarmed Officers on London’s Front Lines ( Read more... )

I love this photo.

If you're my FB friend, you're probably already bored to tears about this ( Read more... )

Today I learned that divorce was banned in Malta up untill today, when a referendum resulted in the official legalising of divorce ( Read more... )

Sometimes - often - ontd_political gets it spot on.

In this post we learn that Mazyar Keshvari, a spokesman for the (right-wing, anti-immigrant) Norwegian Progress Party is, himself, an Iranian immigrant. His manifesto reads like something spliced together with an eye solely on mixing up existing doctrines: support the gays, condemn the immigrants ( Read more... )

I walked past Robert Winston in a vintage car today. City Road, London. 'twas sort of cool.


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Yesterday's brick session slightly killed me. It went down like this ( Read more... )

Just a quickie.

Mostly I'm not posting because I've been working crazy hours and when I'm home I aim for bed. I post to FB a couple of times a day, and then mostly links to weird research papers.

Like these:

Do horses have a concept of person?
Coordinated movements prevent jamming in an emperor penguin huddle
Skeletal Fluorosis from Brewed Tea ( ( Read more... )

I refer to this article.

Ex-Bosnian Serb army head Ratko Mladic has made his first appearance at The Hague war crimes tribunal, saying he will not enter a plea to the "monstrous" and "obnoxious" charges ( Read more... )