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Droitwich, UK, is a bit revealing.

That idea across there. Just look at it.

That is technically impressive, Hassaan, and thanks for sharing. One recommendation: I wouldn't have the demo avatar saying things like "really cool setup you have there, and a gre…

I confess to some scepticism. The lady concerned seems to be a dedicated big cat believer, with seven sightings already[0]. If other witnesses had been present, I would be more acc…

Is there a free and high quality application that offers editing, mixing, synthesiser and the whole range of tools useful for music creation? A sort of Blender for sound?

The writer suggests that a page about a moth is unlikely to provide an opportunity for pushing contentious views. The edits show there was disagreement earlier this year about the …

Do I detect some Aussie tongue in cheek here... "Mr Renwick was quick to protest his innocence. “You’ve got the wrong feller,” he told reporters."

The adult person under investigation has been named by the media. There is also a 16-year-old, who is too young to be publicly identified.

The novice is less likely to learn from a direct reading of Plato's Republic than to absorb Socrates's arguments and ingest enormous amounts of food for thought. The novice will th…

Csikszentmihalyi says that attention "is an energy under our control, to do with as we please". If only it were true that we have attention under our control. There are so many thi…

For many people, sleep seems to be the #1 productivity booster. Certainly, the research seems to suggest focus suffers significantly thanks to lack of sleep - not to mention IQ. Ne…

From Carlyle's French Revolution: "No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there …

There's a pile of lovely Brazilian music using seven-string guitars. It's often used as a counterpoint to samba melodies and in the style known as 'choro'. Yamandu Costa is worth a…

It is possible that the resolution gained more votes because of the trade war. In general, Members of the European Parliament have less understanding of business and trade than bus…

Some of the questions necessarily involve a pen and paper. eg "copy this picture" and link the circled characters.

I get the impression from the article that they weren't expecting an anaerobic space: "Archaeologists lifted up a piece of concrete flooring while exploring the foundations of the …

They do appear as "Roman camp" on an OS at the right scale - try the website, where you can sign up for free for a week. Or the Heritage Gateway website mentioned by ascorbic. Ther…

Just so. The reality for most people is that other people are the primary consumers of attention. So the problem is rather old.

I take issue with some of the statements on the front page. 1. "Children are motivated most when they discover the meaning behind a subject of their own accord." Not in my experien…