This US site reports on bogus health claims and other examples of medical fraud. via Salon.
Category: Interesting links
Spinning the web
Hansard Society research paper on on-line campaigning in the recent UK election, Spinning the Web. Interesting in parts, but brings to mind Marx’s dictum.
The long way round
By G*d!
Cornish spreads to London
The flag of St Piran flies over the City Lit with evening classes now available in the Cornish language (or Kernewek, if you’re Lisa Simpson).
Any colour you like as long as it’s white
An on this day link from the BBC shows how strong – and how officially-sanctioned – racial prejudice was, even only forty years ago.
Flying the Flag
The official rules for flying flags from Government buildings, including the less usual but more correct description of half mast.
Cultural Revolution Redux
Similarities between the cultural revolution on America’s campuses, and the Cultural Revolution.
Erk
This article in the Washington Post is fairly interesting, but only worth blogging because of the existence of the Democratic Erk Party of Uzbekistan. Actually, it’s the Democratic ERK Party (Erk == Liberty, apparently), but I did have an interesting few minutes wondering what a British Erk Party would be like.
(I’ve just wasted five minutes looking for a definition of erk. So here’s some RAF slang).
Understanding house prices
Evan Davies writes an interesting article about how house price rises and falls actually work, and who benefits.
The line:
The people who lose out from falling house prices are not house-price obsessives, but those who are elderly, about to trade down, or emigrate.
gave me a moment of clarity as to why the Daily Mail is so obsessed with house prices.