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Oh dear, this doesn’t look good for this summer. My favourite weather forecaster journalist Nathan Rao is predicting the hottest summer ever (ok, for 40 years):
90 DAYS OF SUNSHINE: Britain set for hottest summer in 40 YEARS as the mercury rockets
That’s from the same guy who late last year predicted Coldest winter for 50 YEARS set to bring MONTHS of heavy snow to UK. We all know what happened with that. One of the mildest winters ever…
Inspired by:
Earlier today, on Google+, I came across an interesting video about the design of everyday items, in this case the humble door. There are indeed bad doors (or better, badly designed doors) out there:
From The Economist Espresso: Quote of the day
While there’s a lot of talk about the threat of terrorism and the fear of becoming the victim of a terrorist attack I think there are many other things we should be much more worried about. Like this one: World on cusp of “post-antibiotic era” (BBC News)
A simple bug could mean death, something that could be treated fairly easily so far might soon be deadly. As far as I understand it not a question of if, but of when. Scary.