Smashing picture of the embattled Mr Brown on the Beeb.

Hobbit (Denham) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “‘What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this festival of all festivals; when the whole earth was so overrun with ghosts, boggles, bloody-bones, spirits, demons,…

we make money not art: “Fabian Seibert at Suelzkotlett designs rather dangerous accessories. His Lugosi 20 Suicide Bracelet comes with a sharp blade and is easy to use: wear slit on pulse, break off blade, insert blade, cut wrist. Here you go: a stylish suicide for just 160 euros. And if you did use it…

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The evolution of intelligence | Natural genius?:“people with a single copy of the gene for Tay-Sachs, or that for Gaucher’s, or that for Niemann-Pick should be more intelligent than average. Dr Cochran and his colleagues predict they will be so by about five IQ points. If that turns out to be the case, it will…