No eruption reported yet, but the latest earthquake was over 5.0 magnitude: -
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=396567
Is everyone all done with their holidaying abroad?...
A growing proportion of our population do not make their discretionary spending in areas which, traditionally, have been major revenue gernetators: they don't drink, do not indulge in games of chance...
If I want to post a link to another thread or a news page but want to make it display as a word so as to make a readable sentence, what is the AB edit bix syntax to create the url link? I've seen this...
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-28778217
How many of you, like me, live in the wrong county to get this sort of thing for free?
Here's hoping there's a tour on the cards....
I had occasion to visit my hardly-used Yahoo account the other day and came dangerously close to losing my sanity. The animated catcha appeared at some stage and, no matter how many times I entered...
In the middle of SP1814's thread, berating the Lady Imalia, I saw this, revelation, from anotheoldgit… //*** The Answerbank was started in 2000 by a company called FreontOfMind which is a subsidiary...
Got my ISS flyby times/dates muddled up again but was rewarded by at least 6 meteors in as many minutes. Some in opposing directions, meaning either sporadics or more than one active radiant. The...
Red Arrows: Inside the Bubble (Sunday 9pm, BBC2) at 24 minutes in. It's instrumental so cannot google lyrics like usual. I've been trying to find out what this one is for years! Thanks in advance....
Diring the flyby just now (24/07/14 03:24 UK time) I saw a second, fainter, object which was moving at the same rate and following the same curvature of path through the sky but lower and further to...
Hope you can help me track down the music used on this one. Luckily I found a link for it http://insidemediatrack.com/2014/06/bbc-heartfelt-drama-trailer-the-village-s2-our-zoo/ Vocals are a bit...
Browsing last week's RT, I find that the original series, featuring the late Bob Peck, is being repeated, Mondays, 10pm, BBC4. Strangely, they have yet to plug the re-run on their main channels. I've...
Ear-worm time again: I'm trying to find out the name of the synth/electronica style track used in the BBC Arts adverts in recent weeks (May 2014), with Will Gompertz voiceover. I -have- Googled but no...
I was reading this thread http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Science/Question1312845.html And saw atalanta's reply at the foot of page 1. I was going to write a response (into that thread) along the lines...
According to this blogger an appeal case has been upheld because the claimant's two spare bedrooms (in a 4 bedroom house, facing a 25% cut) were deemed to be only box rooms - suitable for someone no...
HSCIC = Health and Social Care Information Centre (aka care.data) Further to two (or more?) recent threads, here's news about potential for Police-State-like powers to access your medical data without...
Been waiting for this one for half the day because of this news article: - http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jan/31/secret-hearings-police-journalists-deregulation-bill Didn't hear the first half...
I'm only raising this as a thread because there's healthy ongoing theist/atheist debate on AB. I am neither a teacher nor planning to study philosophy but this change of syllabus might go unnoticed...
382 construction workers dead in two years.
185 this year alone
(See front page of today's Guardian)
Would you care to express your shock and surprise here?...
Have you been telephoned and invited to change your mobile phone contract or broadband service recently? I was. Earlier this week. By BT. I declined, since their are technical reasons why I can't...