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Keep Calm and Carry On

BBC News: Soothing words and stiff upper lips Millions of copies of the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster were printed on the eve of World War II, but never displayed. Now the message has taken on a new lease of life in our troubled peacetime. The simple

Boozy shrew

BBC News: Small shrew is heavyweight boozer. A tiny tree-shrew that lives on alcoholic nectar could - pound for pound - drink the average human under the table, scientists have discovered. Malaysia's pen-tailed tree-shrew waits until nightfall to binge on fermented nectar from the bertam palm. Despite the

The price of fuel

(Gas station at the corner of Ballas and Clayton, St Louis MO.)

The other kind of UFO

Quite the rash of Unidentified Flying Object articles on the BBC News website on Wednesday! The Ministry of Defense (MoD) declassified some files on alleged UFO sightings between 1978 and 1987, they can be downloaded for free for the first month only from the National Archive in their UFO section.

Pudgy hedgehog

BBC News: Atkins diet hedgehog slims down. An overweight hedgehog has shed nearly a quarter of its body weight after adopting a high protein diet similar to the Atkins plan. George the hedgehog weighed 2.2kg (4.8lb) when staff at the Wildlife Aid Centre in Leatherhead, Surrey, discovered him

Pocket change

BBC News: Brass in pocket. The backs of the one, two, five, 10, 20, and 50 pence pieces and the pound coins have been redesigned. The main change in the design of competition winner Matthew Dent is that the coins all feature different parts of a single image, the Royal

Time shifts

My laptop is back! It got done early, I'm really pleased. The space bar doesn't squeak and the keyboard feels totally different and much nicer. BBC News: Venezuela and the politics of time. The move to put the clocks back half an hour adds Venezuela to

Today is "No Music Day"

BBC News: How No Music Day struck a chord. No Music Day is on the 21 November. This is the third year to have one. The first in 2005 was almost a private affair. Other than me [former KLF frontman Bill Drummond] sorting out in my head why I needed

Custard Creams for the win!

BBC News: The strange appeal of the custard cream. The custard cream is the nation's favourite biscuit, suggests a survey. So why has it endured so long? They don't make them like they used to, it seems. The old-fashioned custard cream biscuit has annihilated its newer,

Cocoa for health

BBC News: Cocoa nutrient for 'lethal ills'. A nutrient in cocoa called epicatechin appears to lower the risk of four common killer diseases, work suggests. Among the Kuna people of Panama, who can drink up to 40 cups of cocoa per week, rates of stroke, heart disease, cancer

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