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Bill Bailey [sums up] weirdly mixed British attitudes to bling-glitz: “We have this strange conflict, where we simultaneously say ‘I want to be you’ and ‘Who do you think you are?’, leaving us with a strange loop of ‘Who do you think I want to be?'”
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About the work of the ominously named “Civil Contingencies Secretariat”. Which sounds like an organization that would seize power in a military coup but is actually a bunch of civil servants who assess risk
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The IAU is preparing to vote on a naming scheme that would include eight classical planets and three “plutons”
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Craig Murray, gadfly to the UK Government, pronounces on Operation Bojinka Reprised. Not sure about his analysis, but the part about suspicious timing strikes a chord
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Blind people who use echo-location. Amazing, and yet not
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Londoners would seem to be surprisingly fond of buying meat