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THE LOGIC BOAT (Nov 2012) Image credit: []

CAN WE PREDICT EVERYTHING? Physics says "NO" (Minute Physics November 2012) media type="youtube" key="dmX1W5umC1c" height="315" width="560"

[|SNACKING THROUGH SHAKESPEARE] - The history of a fork excavated in an Elizabethan theatre (BBC April 2012) [|MATRIX-STYLE FARMS] - proposal to grow meat from headless chickens - Wired (April 2012)

WHAT THE BRITISH MEAN WHEN THEY SAY... (unknown source, April 2012)

[|SURFER LINGO EXPLAINED] - BBC website (April 2012)

[|STEREOTYPE MAPS] - an artist displays national prejudices - Guardian (April 2012)

[|WHAT IF THE OLD MASTERS' NUDES WERE TODAY'S SKINNY MODELS?] - Guardian and link (April 2012)

[|FRENCH CONCESSION IS 'A COLONIAL EXPRESSION'] - Shanghai Daily (Feb 2012)

A STORY OF MIXED EMOTICONS - TED Talk (2008) media type="custom" key="11510636"

SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM - [|xkcd cartoon] (Nov 2011) PHILOSOPHY IN PRISON - TED Talk (Nov 2011) media type="custom" key="11509526" [|BATTLE OF THE HISTORIANS] - The Guardian (Nov 2011)

[|JMW TURNER USED SCIENCE TO PAINT THE SUN] - The Guardian (Nov 2011)

[|THE DEIFICATION OF STEVE JOBS] - The Guardian (Oct 2011)

[|CAN YOU TELL LEFT FROM RIGHT?] - Robert Krulwich of Radiolab blog (Oct 2011)

[|CHINA'S GOOD SAMARITANS. REAL AND IMAGINED] - Adam Minter blog Shanghai Scrap (Oct 2011)

[|A MANIFESTO FOR HUMANITY] - Guardian (Oct 2011)

[|AN ETHICAL GUIDE TO YOUR HOME] - The Guardian (Oct 2011)

[|IS THE WORLD JUST?] - Jonah Lehrer blog (Oct 2011)

[|CHINESE STRUGGLING LESS THAN AMERICANS] - Shanghaiist website (Oct 2011)

THE ETHICAL DILEMMA OF OUTSOURCING PREGNANCY TO INDIA - Michael Sandel (2009) media type="custom" key="10732790" WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH MEMORY? - media type="custom" key="10732696"

YOU CAN'T TRUST SCIENCE - Atheist propaganda video on youku (also on youtube) media type="custom" key="10679068" [|IS THE INTERNET RE-WRITING HISTORY?] - BBC News website (30/9/11)

[|SHACKLETON'S BISCUIT] - BBC News website (30/9/11)

[|IT'S EASIER TO LIE IN CYBERSPACE] - Guardian website (30/9/11)

[|SCIENCE VS RELIGION] - BBC website (Sept 2011)

[|DWARF GALAXIES SUGGEST THEORY MAY BE WRONG] - BBC News (Sept 2011)

SELLING CONDOMS IN TAIWAN (Sept 2011) media type="custom" key="10491534"

[|SCIENTISTS SUED FOR NOT PREDICTING EARTHQUAKE] - BBC News website (Sept 2011)

[|THE PHONE NUMBER THAT KILLS?] - BBC News website (Sept 2011)

[|WHY DO PEOPLE TROLL?] - article on Guardian website (September 2011)

[|NEW EMOTION DETECTOR CAN SEE WHEN YOU'RE LYING] - article on BBC News website (Sept 2011)

[|SUPERCOMPUTER PREDICTS WORLD EVENTS] - article on BBC News website (Sept 2011)

CULTURAL SYMBOLS: [|MAN ARRESTED FOR SINGING KUNG FU FIGHTING] - article on MSN (April 2011) [] [|DO SCHOOLS KILL CREATIVITY?] - talk by Sir Ken Robinson on video at ted.com (2006) media type="custom" key="10311911" [|LADY GAGA ON CHINA MUSIC BLACKLIST] - article in guardian.co.uk (Aug 2011)