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This is how this YouTube clip is introduced.  Really, I thought – has no one seen this YouTube gem which I defy anyone to watch without reaching for the valium. No matter how often I watch the "most terrifying" YouTube video, it just...

Wiltshire has an explorer – David Hempleman-Adams – who seems to do most of his exploring out of the county. Hempleman-Adams has made an intervention into the local solar PV politics (ie, should Wiltshire Council encourage or discourage it?).  The Council's policy is not to have...

... of ?? Well, you can complete the sentence for yourself, but my money's on the last two lines of Hilaire Belloc's 'Jim' (one of his cautionary tales for children) which were never far from the surface of things, even if...

On Saturday, there's a conference on Intangible Cultural Heritage in the UK: promoting and safeguarding our diverse living cultures.  It's at the Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay.  It's about time. The 2003 UNESCO Convention defines Intangible Cultural Heritage...

George M’s latest dyspeptic vision of the future – at least for benighted folk north of the Wall –  has been seen off by Brian Wilson for the “patronizing rubbish” it clearly is.  Wilson asks where are the progressive ideas in nationalist politics,...

You can access WWF Scotland's ageing, but still rather fine, Linking Thinking report here.  It was written by Stephen Sterling, Paul Maiteny, Deryck Irving and John Salter.  Is it for you?  Well, the authors say that if you, or your institution or organisation are: interested...

England's Department for Education has bowed to pressure from Ofsted and agreed to appoint 8 regional education commissioners (and a super, 'national' commissioner to keep an eye on the other 8).  Their role is to oversee the ~4000 free schools and academies in...

On Monday the 4th of August, at 2300, a small group of people from the village I live in met to plant an oak tree to "remember the start of the 1st world war in 1914".  This was the day and time the British...

The Economist's Schumpeter column reports that Deep Knowledge Ventures, a Hong Kong venture-capital outfit, has appointed an algorithm to its board of directors.  VITAL (Validating Investment Tool for Advancing Life Sciences), having run the numbers, gets to vote on which...

Why is it so difficult for most institutions to do well in both the NSS national student satisfaction survey, and in the green league?  Only Exeter has managed to get close to squaring this circle recently by being 13th in the green league (2013) and...