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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.

The winning images from Astronomy Photographer of The Year 2016. I think I like the one of M94 best.

600 discarded bodyboards collected from three Devon & Cornwall beaches in one month.

This looks quite cool, but be honest it would have to be the handwritten one and that's at least a $5,000 pledge.

Carry On Guardianing

We didn't evolve from aquatic apes.

The Kremlin wants Trump to win because they really believe that Hillary wants to start a war with Russia.

D&D's Most Greatest Weapon - The Peasant Railgun. (To get this, you need to appreciate that in at least some versions of D&D, passing an object from one person to an adjacent person is an action that is treated as almost instantaneous.)

North Korea's English language website

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BBC admits Bake Off is catastrophic social experiment

A pretty clever piece of political profiling and surveying from the Social Market Foundation.

Terror attack stopped by heroic activist who established a safe space in local mall.

A blog that examines the use of fonts in science fiction. What a time to be alive.

Labour's new shadow minister for domestic violence has personal experience of the issue - a police caution for domestic violence.

Typical day at the Labour Party conference.

Brilliant picture of Jeremy Corbyn at his own party conference protesting to bring back the position of Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health. Now, see if you can guess which politician it was who abolished the position of “Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health”…

Amazingly, there is an article on the website of Standard Life all about collecting tabletop games. Pretty good article too, although there are a couple of factual errors. They should have asked me! (One of the people interviewed described H1 Bloodstone Pass as “almost impossible to get hold of”. We had one in stock, although ironically we sold it last week to a bloke in Denmark.)

Epipens are really expensive in the US. Here's why.

Jewish Labour Movement heckled by Corbynistas at the Labour Conference. The speaker (not the heckler thank god) was a friend of mine at Magdalen.

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Three good things that Obama is doing in his last days as President.

What's the opposite of 'Grimdark' fantasy? Noblebright fantasy.

The Thoughts and Prayers App

A reasonable stab at classifying various types of leftists.

Interesting story about the man who was the janitor at the US Air Force Academy in the 1970s.

Jeremy Paxman reveals that University Challenge is edited to make the contestants look cleverer.

A rally good visualisation of where the two American political parties got their support from 1920 to 2012.

We're right to be worried about Theresa May.

Deciphering the Text Foundations of Traveller

You Don't Have To Be Stupid To Work Here...But It Helps

This article struck something of a chord. Actually that's an understatement.

If the article is TL:DR, here's the executive summary: Organisations recruit clever people, but then discourage them from using their intelligence. It could easily have been written about my former employer (one of the Big 4 global professional services firms). And it's one of the things that consistently bugged me the most.