Toast of the Toun
Voter ID in Britain is “far worse than any US state”. How the U.K. became one of the poorest countries in Western Europe.
After the Halloween horror in Korea, here are ten tips for surviving a crowd crush.
How Ukraine won the battle for Kyiv. There’s a harrowing 90-minute documentary on Mariupol: The People’s Story on iPlayer at the moment. It’s devastating to see the human impact, and to have the story of its destruction laid out all at once.
Doctors using AI catch breast cancer more often than either does alone.
The icy village where you must remove your appendix.
I binged on Fern Brady’s stuff on iPlayer last year, before she became the breakout star of the latest series of Taskmaster. Fern Brady Goes Viral has sadly dropped out of view for the time being, but there are excerpts on YouTube. Here’s a podcast featuring Brady on autistic meltdowns, understanding emotions and being the black sheep.
All 125 times a professor said “beef” in one lecture.
Crumbs. “A prankster spun a web of deception about the inventor of the electric toaster … one Scottish primary school organised a day of activities in his memory” [via Mefi]. Our kids have been at Scottish primary schools during the timespan of this hoax. This is all too close to home (appliances).