Animals:Urban kingfishers making a home on London's waterways -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-29204055US reroutes flights around Alaska beach in attempt to avoid walrus stampede -
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/01/walrus-alaska-beach-trampled-death Walruses are the latest victims of global warming (via
nwhyte)
The freedivers who swim with whales -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29209139Archaeology:Greeks captivated by Alexander-era tomb at Amphipolis -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29239529Temple of Mithras: How do you put London's Roman shrine back together? -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29309824Beyond Angkor: How lasers revealed a lost city -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29245289Data Visualisations:Mapping Murder -
http://imgur.com/gallery/fo63erj - American homicide rate per 100,000 people (2012) I just really like the way they've visualised the data.
Map: Most Popular Female Names by State -
http://i.imgur.com/DQ2Jhp3.gif From 1960 - 2012 Useful for the writers out there.
Map: Most Popular Male Names by State -
http://i.imgur.com/xQeel1x.gif From 1960 - 2012 Useful for the writers out there.
History:Day out at the gallows and other bygone photographic oddities -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29246071 - Selections from Victorian and Edwardian era photography from the Woodhorn Museum and Northumberland Archives.
The UK was home to 250,000 Belgian refugees during World War One, the largest single influx in the country's history. So why did they vanish with little trace? -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28857769Language/Dialects/Etc:Why is the Birmingham accent so difficult to mimic? -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29307916The rich: Exactly what does the terminology mean? -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15822595Miscellaneous:Battle horse roundabout in Tewkesbury 'best in Britain' -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-29407943Don’t Be Ugly By Accident! -
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/page/8/ - Or which photographs (including manufacturer, time and device) make you more likely to get OK Cupid hits.
Taboola: The internet firm at the forefront of 'click-bait' -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29322578 Interesting stuff, certainly more interesting than the click-bait they produce.
Does job success depend on data rather than your CV? -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29343425 Or companies doing ever wierder things to choose candidates.
Trying to improve childhood survival rates in Africa -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29045065Games for doctors - how the computer games industry is turning its attention to helping doctors improve their performance -
http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g5642Wasabi: Why invest in 'the hardest plant to grow'? -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29082091The father of 26 children who's helping to preach birth control -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29258844Buddha seems to bring tranquility to Oakland neighborhood -
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/johnson/article/Buddha-seems-to-bring-tranquillity-to-Oakland-5757592.phpThe NSA claimed that it was only collecting metadata—a fact we now know is false—but even metadata can tell an intimate story -
http://www.scottogle.net/my-most-intimate-self-portrait.htmlScience:Plutonium: The scary element that helps probe space's secrets -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29274491Can Memories Be Implanted and Then Removed? -
http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/can-memories-implanted-removedTerry Fox's cancer now highly curable researcher says -
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/terry-fox-s-cancer-now-highly-curable-researcher-says-1.2765316 Or science, we're working on it.
Sport:Football:Premier League: Chelsea and the madness of the loan game -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29280337 In short, Chelsea are up to something and whether it works or not could change how the Premier League does business (possibly turning it's business model closer to that of Italy).
Enner Valencia: West Ham striker on milking cows and Green Street -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29354623