Last year, I started investigating a 1997 murder for a class. Most people who knew about this case were too scared to speak to me.
I couldnโt fathom why.
But as I peeled back the layers, I started discovering things I wasnโt meant to know. 1/
tw: murder, rape, suicide
๐งตThereโs a Korean bakery chain called Paris Baguette (PB) which is as ubiquitous as Starbucks in Korea. They have your cafรฉ offerings like below-average coffee and mediocre French-style pastry ubiquitous with Korean bakeries. #1u
The future of audio is Silicon speakers.
Yesterday I was invited to hear the future of audio on a visit to https://t.co/gzybKAcY7D
This Silicon wafer has hundreds of speakers on it. Yesterday they showed me these used in headphones, augmented reality glasses and more.
Wow.๐งต
A reminder that Jeremy Hunt, when Health Secretary, sold the state-owned NHS blood plasma supplier - Plasma Resources UK - to Bain Capital, a US company co-founded Mitt Romney, in a ยฃ230m deal.
Bain Capital then sold it on to the Chinese Creat Group. For ยฃ820m.
Van Gogh's Sunflowers was wiped down & back on display within three hours.
The oil industry, primarily Shell, drilled in the ecologically unique Ogoniland delta from 1957 to 1996. They didn't start cleaning up until 2016. Since then there have been 692 further oil spills.
The Labour MP for Canterbury said at party conference last month she would leave Labour if Eddie Izzard was allowed on an all-women shortlist.
Labour voters disagree with her.
https://t.co/NUwuihmneV
If you're a bit strapped, pop down to the Members' Dining Room at the House of Commons for pressed chicken and caramelised onion with tarragon and chive jelly, pickled vegetables and thyme sourdough at ยฃ2.84.
Don't forget to vote against free schools meals while you're there.
Chafkin calculates that the global R&D budget for AVs has now exceeded *$100 billion*, and demonstrates that we have next to nothing to show for it, and that whatever you think you know about AV success is just spin, hype and bullshit. 12/
It still shocks me that people wake up everyday and just feel... healthy. No pain, no fatigue, no headache, no stomach ache, no joint pains just... a body floating through the day. As a chronically ill person I literally cannot imagine or remember what that feels like.
Oh look it's 'brits don't eat spice' season.
1) We have millions of people from diaspora communities who very much do eat spices AND are every bit as British as me.
2) The concept of British food as bland comes from Victorian/Edwardian middle/upper class snobbery. ๐งต /1