https://www.mygridgb.co.uk/das...

Real-time and historical power usage for the UK.

Tracks type and carbon emissions and has data from at least the last 8 years.

(its a great resource as a teacher - it was set up by one of my friends from school)
 

'Beauty' Quark sounds so much better than 'Bottom'.

Bottom is its proper name. No one calls it beauty. But I guess that doesn't make as catchy a news headline.

You have the right to say whatever you want (within the bounds of the law- not inciting violence for instance)

You still have to deal with and be accountable for the consequences of what you say.

Freedom of speech is not a pass to say what you want without repercussions. If you make homophobic, and-mask comments, you have to own those and be willing to deal with how others respond to those comments (such as your employer or media outlet). Cancel culture isn't the end of free speech, it's just the bluntest way that people have to show that someone has said something they don't agree with - and they are exercising their own rights to respond to it however they want.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean that people have to accept your views, or treat those views with sacred respect. It just means you can say them, and other people can decide how they want to respond to it.

There seems to be an unspoken rule in Britain at the moment where is seems that no one can blame parents of any wrongdoing of their child. Knife crime rising (still no where near gun level in America before you start), blame the teachers and NHS frontline nurses for not checking/reporting it. Video game addiction, blame Fornite. Huge increase in mental health problems due to social media, blame Facebook.

As a teacher at a normal British comprehensive, the vast majority of these issues stem from poor parenting, but more and more blame seems to go elsewhere.

Saying that, we're also in a current situation with Brexit where not a single politician will ever say the words "the voters got it wrong and maybe we should deal with the underlying issues of why they voted that way rather than commit economic suicide", so maybe we just don't like blaming the root cause of issues because they'd be too hard to fix.

The problem being is, as a European looking in, I'm not sure whose social score would be lower; America's or China's.

You will always have the imaginary bugs to keep you company

What about a small laminated map that can fit in his pocket? Maybe with a hole in it so it can be tied a belt loop in his trousers.

The C in CBBC stands for children's. Surely there has to be a better, more informative source that CBBC's newsround "the home of news and fun facts for kids". Even the actual BBC website is slightly better .

Considering there have been over 2000 nuclear tests

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

We've had electric buses for a while in Milton Keynes. That 30 mile range can be dramatically increased with small top up charges at the end of the routes. Drive 5 miles, top up 4 miles, Drive 5 miles, top up 4 miles etc... Then have a big charge overnight.

Ninendo have around $5 billion in cash assets and a further $5 billion in stocks. A $240 million loss for a year (or 10) is easily survivable. Even if the Wii U completely bombs they have plenty of cash reserves to try again next generation and learn from their mistakes.

We'll have the "Slightly Less United States of America", or maybe even "The Independent States of America". It's already becoming more and more divided (from an outside perspective).

As a British citizen, I'm so used to assuming that the government is intercepting every piece of electronic communication, I get really confused that other countries are annoyed they get spied on. Do these other people actually trust their governments? Because that's weird.

just set up a facebook group?

5 pounds is dirt cheap. Not even enough to buy a pint in central London.