Solar minimum us approaching and I was anticipating a harsh winter, in the UK but, on the other side of the world it is an El Niño year and they had "the blob" - unusually warm waters, off the US...
Khandro said //If some form of life could be found he knows the implications are enormous, because it sure as hell didn't come from here, and so all bets would be off as to where it all came from.//...
Well, well, well. Dick Cheney, with the stash of cash he got from making weapons for the US to fight in Kuwait/Iraq/Afghanistan plans to drill... the Golan Heights??? J Rothschild and Rupert Murdoch...
I've just been enjoying this edition of the 'Natural World' strand, on BBC iPlayer and can thoroughly recommend it. However, it was originally broadcast on 16/07 and is only available until this...
Rather than one thread on each, I thought a compendium thread would prevent clutter. Examples so far:- "I am a bio-engineer" (Egyptian; presumably left his certificates at home. I would like to be a...
BBC website sometimes flashes breaking news at you. No one else has posted about this. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-33736685 Not a lot to debate, this is a JFYI. There is a car auction...
It may be a one-off bad year. It may be part of a long term climate shift. Whatever your stance on climate change, did your understanding of the workings of nature give you the slightest inkling that...
UKIP's Nathan Gill assures Welsh farmers that the subsidy payments which they fear they will lose, should Britain quit the EU, will be maintained, following an exit, made possible because of the...
A rep appeared on BBC Breakfast just now and has any amount of justification for why direct debit customers should pay £80 per year less than coin-meter customers. He steered clear of admitting that...
I stumbled on this while browsing the site and found it both interesting and worrying. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201505/early-academic-training-produces-long-term-harm I have...
Mine was. Still is. Probably over 12 hours of sub 0.4 Mb speeds. One website I tried (downdetector.co.uk) showed some major outages for TalkTalk, at the moment, although I had to use an "other" option...
Since nobody was able to answer my previous question, we all had to wait for the 'product launch', which was today and all this week, apparently. Anyway, here it is....
How much did you enjoy the expression on Farage's face when, at the manifesto launch, earlier today, he was asked why the only black face in the manifesto was on the page about cutting foreign aid?...
Cameron and Osbourne keep banging on and on (and on) about their "Long Term Economic Plan" but what exactly is it? Can it be described concisely? If not, then choose your favourite part and say why...