The most unfortunate and hilarious hyphenated married names in the world
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Sue Perkins on Trafigura and the Twitterati
Sue Perkins talks about the Trafigura story and the Twitterati on Friday evenings News Quiz on BBC Radio 4. Clip is just over 2 minutes.
She was in top form throughout the programme. 21 minutes in she gets a question about the Large Hadron Collider - it's absolutely hilarious - had me in stitches.Wish we had a News Quiz type programme on Irish radio.Comments [0]
"Podfather" BBC4 at 9PM tonight
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"Podfather"BBC4
Today 12/10 - 21:00 He's described here as the most important person most people have never heard of. He's lauded as a man who combined the invention of Thomas Edison with the nou... http://d.click365.tv?1794715 Sent from Radio Times on your iPhone. For more information go to: http://radiotimes.click365.tv
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The Old Man and the Sea - A beautiful animated short
This is absoloutely gorgeous.
The Old Man and the Sea (French: Le Vieil Homme et la mer) is a 1999 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov, based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Work on the film took place in Montreal over a period of two and a half years and was funded by an assortment of Canadian, Russian and Japanese companies. French and English-language soundtracks to the film were released concurrently. It was the first animated film to be released in IMAX.
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Every TED Talk in the history of TED - as a spreadsheet
If you're a TED Talks fan, this quick and handy Google spreadsheet lists every TED Talk in the history of TED.
Slice and dice it here.Comments [0]
Bats sing silly love songs
via futurity.org
Bats are creepy, but hearing their song makes them a little less so.
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