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The Bank of England is going to issue a new design of £50 notes and has asked the public to nominate people whose image the Bank of England should incorporate as part of the design. They say In the past, scientists who've appeared on British notes include George Stephenson, Charles Darwin...

Not sure how I feel about this -- it's difficult to imagine Penny Dreadful without Eva Green as Vanessa Ives. But maybe "Sometimes what’s dead doesn’t always remain" means she'll be resurrected anyway.

BBC AMERICA GREENLIGHTS ORIGINAL SCRIPTED SERIES THE WATCH

Republicans and Democrats Don’t Just Disagree About Politics. They Have Different Sexual Fantasies. Furthermore, and I hide what follows behind a spoiler tag because it's so horrifying

Lengthy and disturbing article on the BBC website about the network of hidden camps into which large numbers of the Uighur minority are vanishing: China's hidden camps - BBC News The Uighurs, who are Muslims, are up in the west of China, and have more in common with other people in Central...

Why you have (probably) already bought your last car Interesting look at how fast driverless cars and transport as a service may replace conventional automobiles. Wasn't sure whether to post this here or in science, but I think it's primarily to do with society,

Pantsdrunk: The Finnish Art of Drinking at Home. Alone. In Your Underwear Attn Kara! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pantsdrunk-Kalsarikanni-Finnish-Path-Relaxation/dp/0062855891 ETA: Emojis at https://finland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/emoji-kalsarikannit_m.png

I'm sending avatar's names and scores to Google Sheets each time they play a game. Some people play the game once, and some people play it several times. I want to produce a list showing avatars names and, if they've played more than once, their best score. Assuming the names are in column...

Earlier today I successfully posted a link to a Gyazo img -- https://i.gyazo.com/ec34d726077d9ec1f48fc571ad13508d.jpg. Later on, though, I saw that the image (though not the accompanying text) had vanished. I opened up the post in edit and the link the the image, surrounded by IMG tags, had...

Looks like a lot of people are being taken in by what #45 has described as a hoax by the Chinese: 'We're moving to higher ground': America's era of climate mass migration is here. If only they'd pray harder, I'm sure they'd have nothing to worry about. Or they could build arks -- maybe...

Before the old SLU closes, I hope Cristiano is able to put up a Paypal donate button. I know we can use Patreon, but as I've grumbled before, they hit me with not only their service charge but also 20% VAT that they don't, in fact, need to change, and I'd rather Cristiano got 100% of my...

Hi, everyone! Just been examining all the reaction buttons -- I foresee drama ahead.