UK media this week furiously debates why one of its greatest ever sportsmen appears so unloved. Surmount cycling’s Everest to win the Tour de France, not once, but now four times surely makes any rider one of the all-time greats across all of sport. Yet this weekend’s coronation

Because sometimes the lure of the planet’s biggest English-language “news” site is just too shiny. Happiness has a formula. Yes, another one [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4716514/Google-executive-devises-scientific-formula-happiness.html] . This time, courtesy of a cash-mountained ex-Googler called Mo; > So what is the magic formula, I hear you

Tricky ground here, hey. This book [http://sethsd.com/everybodylies/] doing the rounds right now across media sofas comes from an obsessed google trends data explorer. Knowing the wizened insider axiom, “all buyers are liars”, I couldn’t help but be intrigued. The mismatches interviewers gravitate towards were unsurprisingly relationship

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Here’s a cheeky concept I came across watching a truly woeful BBC-filler show on brains. To show that our mind shuts things we see out and fills in from memory or guesswork, the viewer was invited to take in everything from a flickering image of two people on baby-bikes.

One the five largest icebergs ever seen by man appeared this week. The finger of land that curls towards S America from Antarctica saw the giant float free from (‘calved’ in the lingo) the Larsen C ice-shelf and drift into the Weddell Sea. Called A68 (after the Antarctic quadrant [https:

Alright, so I love the vibe to transmog [http://salespodder.com/the-more-seductive-referendum-phrase-pushed-instead-of-change/] . There’s a widely used, now debunked as a myth, Aussie “survey” finding that when current students enter the workforce, two-thirds of them will do jobs that don’t exist today. Despite the absence of any such original

Here’s an interesting concept from aviation. The speed reached by a plane on a runway at which it is not possible to abort the take-off is calledV1. It’s a critical moment. Known as the “commit to fly” speed. This whole area holds a quiet fascination. Wikipedia alone at