The Blood is The Life 04-01-2013
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miss_s_b- Getting the source right
Nick Barlow on how news scare stories can be both more and less scary at the same time, depending on how badly they are being reported.
- Knowing about science is not a trivial pursuit – Telegraph Blogs
The Torygraph's sensible columnist strikes again.
- Factcheck: Are there 4,000 foreign murderers and rapists living freely in the UK? | Full Fact
- Recipe for a long life: overweight people have LOWER death risk - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent
- PCC David Lloyd: 'Make suspects pay for police cell stay'
SUSPECTS, note, not convicted criminals once convicted, but suspects. So every time the police budget is running a bit low they can go round up a bunch of people for "being black in possession of a mobile phone" or "having long hair and driving a vehicle" or "looking a bit LGBT" and then make them pay for it... Constable Savage would be creaming himself at this plan.
- The Differences Between Civil Partnerships and Marriage
A useful summary of the issues.
- Thoughts on Comic Creation
From published comic author. Lots of these work for ANY sort of fiction.
- Radagast’s Racing Rhosgobel Rabbits: A Recreational Musher Looks at the Realities of Bunny Sledding
Really interesting examination of rabbit sledding
