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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

Nice little collection of AVRO Vulcan photographs.

Sajid Javid is probably a better politician than standup comedian, but nevertheless this is quite funny.

Wearing skirts is considered to be indecent in Morocco...

...and in Plymstock, Devon.

Strange tales from the bad old days of search engine optimisation.

How much did the coalition government manage to reduce the welfare bill by?

"The next time you see a mob gibbering and shrieking and demanding someone's dismissal, don't hunker down. Speak up. Someone has to, for Heaven's sake."

And this is the person behind the lynching. "A very flawed accuser."

Who can stop the wind turbines?

Uncle Bryn on Gareth Bale.

Worried that you might avoid tax? This helpful guide shows you how to avoid avoiding tax.

Does going to court to change your dead millionaire father's will so you pay less inheritance tax count as "avoiding tax"?

Interesting reviews of all the Gollancz SF Masterworks so far.

5 Misconceptions About #GamerGate and the Truth Behind the Myths

Five Actors Who Almost Played Aragorn (Russell Crowe?)

Whatever happened to Football Manager legend Freddy Adu?

No, unemployment is not the "underlying cause" of ISIS.

"Why are people in Scotland saying I murdered someone called Lucy?"

UKIP Cornwall's website gives Cornish web designers a bad name.

The latest SJW idiocy in SF / Fantasy literature.

I miss 'The Thick of It'. Luckily Green Party leader Natalie Bennett can easily fill the 'incompetent politician gives car crash interview' hole...

The appalling compensation for those people imprisoned through a miscarriage of justice.

It's really cold in New York at the moment.

Evidence used by Henry VIII to support the break with Rome turns up in a library not far from us.

Why we shouldn't clamp down on zero-hour contracts.

Nick Hewer won't be on The Apprentice next year. This is a massive shame.

His greatest moment. "Anyway, I'll leave it with you..."

Examining "poverty" claims.

An explanation for Russell Brand that does actually make sense.

How important is climate change really?

The KGB thought about trying to recruit Tony Benn, but decided against because he was too "stupid".

Spreading lies on social media. Depressingly easy.

Finding love on social media. Heart-warmingly possible.

Deborah from Pulp's 'Disco 2000' has died.

A cautionary tale about building ultra high-end PCs. (Thanks to wellinghall)

The Super Bowl's Ten Worst Halftime Shows.

Open plan offices. Bad idea.

A new series of The Clangers!

Paul Krugman on Scottish independence. (And it's nice to see that even neo-Keynesians have come around to my way of thinking on the Euro.)

Prices, Paul Krugman, and Consistency

This is why poor kids don't grow up to be interior designers.

Is Apple quietly killing off its best product?

Why US forests are fuelling Europe.

Logic and theology.

Five ways that films get gunfights wrong.

Interesting account of 9/11 as it happened, as seen by White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer.

Universities must convert widening access into graduate jobs. I see that the university at which I will be lecturing is the second best in the country at promoting social mobility while the one I studied at is the second worst.

This is why all those Scottish independence campaigners were protesting outside BBC Scotland.

The best moments from Friends, animated as 8-bit style GIFs.

Why don't children want to learn the violin? (Do they have to ask the question? If you can play the guitar, you are cool. Also, a highly paid career is open to you. If you can play the violin, you probably look uncool and violinist salaries are terrible. I used to audit one of the world’s great orchestras, and except for their superstar conductor, ALL of the musicians’ salaries were really low. Supermarket checkout girl low.)

Who killed lard?

What would the political map of Europe look like if all the nationalist parties got their way?

Today is the 75th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland.

The Aswan Dam and other Doomsday Weapons

If it gets warmer, isn't that a good thing, on balance?

18 Signs You're Reading Bad Criticism of Economics

Hogwarts Ofsted report

Really rather beautiful GTA V timelapse video.

Sitting straight is bad for backs. (This is seven years old and strikes me as bloody obvious.)

The Shadow Education Secretary's car crash Paxman interview - with added Thick of It

This is a nicely told life story.

How to do the moonwalk.

A good Xbox One versus PS4 comparison

Really nice ocean waves simulator.

Objectively assessing the political stance of UK thinktanks and newspapers.

What scared H.P. Lovecraft.

Top 10 reasons to stay in the European Union

Austrian muslims complain that Lego Jabba's Palace is racist because it looks like Hagia Sophia.

How routine PC upgrades may lead to your credit cards being stopped

Someone in southwest England is felling wind turbines.

Stuck for a present idea for the lady in your life who likes both 1980s children's television and prog rock?

The game of tag that's continued for 23 years.

Make your own pulp SF covers with the Pulp-O-Mizer!

Obituary for the Guinea Worm

Does defense really win championships?

"Deck the Halls with Macro Follies" - "The greatest collection of economic holiday hits ever assembled!"

Client feedback to marketing agencies as posters. (Much better than it sounds.)

Sir Patrick Moore had some financial difficulties in the last few years of his life. So Brian May bought his house for him. (Please, please, please BBC, don’t give The Sky at Night to that wanker from Manchester with the bad dress sense and the creepy lips. Give it to Chris Lintott and Brian May. Queen, not D*Ream.)

Famous movie scenes in Lego. (I think The Godfather is the best.)

ESPN presenter argues that Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III isn't "really" black because he has a white fiancee and he's a Republican. (For this, he has been suspended for 30 days by ESPN. This is the same punishment they gave to a basketball commentator (whose wife is Asian-American) who asked “Is there a chink in his armour?” about a Chinese basketball player. The former behaviour seems much worse to me.)

Gerard Depardieu moves to Belgium and farts in the general direction of President Hollande.

Bradley Wiggins is, without doubt, the coolest man on the planet right now. And a random security guard might be second.

Football management - what they apparently _do_ teach you at Harvard Business School.

The Doha climate change talks failed. That doesn't matter since they would have had a trivial effect anyway. What matters far more is the Doha trade talks.

I wonder at what point the Labour Party website will remove this page...

Famous British eugenicists. (Including Marie Stopes, who disinherited her son for marrying a short-sighted woman.)

Strong contender for worst album cover of all time. On the other hand, it does feature a cat.

Spot the hidden Dalek!

If video games were realistic.

Spanish wind turbines kill "6 million to 18 million birds and bats annually".

Doctor Who Van Gogh t-shirt, by Truffle Shuffle

Best Photo of the Month

The next Total War game will be Rome 2!

A Song of Ice and Fire and Minecraft

Lifeguard fired for helping drowing man

Evolution of the F1 Car 1950 - 2012 (really nice piece of animated graphic design)

Explaining the British government's economic policies and the current economic situation.

Neil Gaiman is working on a Sandman prequel.

Christopher Tolkien's first interview in something like forty years. He was a cantankerous old fart then. Do you think he's improved...?

The first photo ever uploaded to a website. (You mean you didn’t know that CERN has its own girl band? And what’s more, they’re pretty good. And now would totally be a good time for a commercial release for “Mr Higgs”.)