We get a fortnightly delivery of organic vegetables from a local farm.

The most recent delivery included kohlrabi, which is a member of the cabbage family. It's green and spherical and it bears a remarkable resemblance to Sputnik.

One cookery web site says of kohlrabi:
Kohl rabi (or kohlrabi) is one of those vegetables that makes a regular ( Read more... )

It's not often, outside of a Presidential election campaign, that the British news media report events in American politics at such length.

And it is almost unheard of for British politicians to comment on a live political debate in the United States ( Read more... )

The BBC reports that the Pontcysyllte aqueduct in Wales has been granted World Heritage Site status by UNESCO. Other World Heritage Sites include the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China and Stonehenge.


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It amuses me that British weather forecasts from the Meteorological Office now include colour-coded severe weather warnings.

At the moment, for example, there is a yellow alert ("Moderate risk of some damage to infrastructure and local disruption") for Wales and the southwest of England on Friday with the following advisory message:
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I just read an article in today's edition of The Guardian newspaper, which reports that Republicans are unhappy about Barack Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court.

That's hardly surprising, I suppose. However, one of their reasons for opposing her is truly bizarre:
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Back in February, there was a furore in Britain over the news that a 12-year-old boy had fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl.

There was much scepticism at the time, not least because the boy looked looked more like an eight-year-old, and because two other teenage boys claimed to have slept with the girl around the time the baby was conceived ( Read more... )

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XKCD is a work of genius.


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Poll question at the web site of the Cambridge Evening News, the local newspaper here in Cambridge:
Should a bus station be built on Christ's Pieces?