A salty tale: homeopathic nanoparticles revisited once again edzardernst.com/2026/04/a-sa...

Make it an all-animal double-bill by throwing in Straw Dogs

1/x Imagine an oil tanker runs aground near your shores and the resultant oil spill creates around $22million in damages (in 1967) but because of a law, dating back to 1851, the ship owner liability is limited to $50. #maritimehistory

Dan Rather at the age of 94 showing how journalists should cover the Trump regime. Rather than as too many have done proffering sycophantic fawning to Trump & his court.

Very rarely a competition in any real sense, existing only because it exists, the Boat Race is such a strange custom. #c4news

Full performance here: Johann Sebastian Bach, St Matthew Passion, BWV 244 Netherlands Radio Choir National Children's Choir Iván Fischer, conductor Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Concertgebouworkest©️ 🙏🏼🎼🕊️ youtu.be/Tq4lxMcwYwU?...

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

Fair play that was very cool reporting by Harry Fawcett on the protest in Israel, continuing to speak to camera as moved on by police. #c4news

Trump warned Iran it had 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It's not first deadline Mr Trump has set. And in recent weeks he has also claimed the US didn't need the Strait, that Europe should open the Strait and that the Strait would automatically open by itself. @c4ciaran.bsky.social #c4news

Gene Hackman would have rescued him. #c4news

A win! The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously blocked Arizona Republicans’ attempt to dismantle the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni (Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument), protecting nearly one million acres of sacred Indigenous land from new uranium mining.

‘Hell is empty and all the devils are here’ Ariel The Tempest Shakespeare #BookWormSat 📷 The Wenhaston Doom, Suffolk

People are starting to express what many visitors have noticed about the US for many years, including stuff that predates Trump and will likely outlast him: The car culture, the crap infrastructure, the hostility of border/police officers, the obesity, the entitlement, the ignorant exceptionalism.

The mighty southern walls of Caerwent Roman town - Venta Silurum - in south Wales; among the best preserved Roman civic defences in Britannia 📷 My own, March 2026 #RomanSiteSaturday

The Athletic has had a revised go at ranking the 48 qualifiers for the World Cup.

Politics, the only profession where being a professional is treated with contempt, which people insist amateurs could do better despite the constant evidence to the contrary and where obvious difficulties in succeeding is seen as proof the people trying are incompetent.

🇳🇴 Got to love our Norwegian friends - For many in Norway, Easter means heading to a cabin in the woods to eat chocolate and read or watch crime thrillers. Welcome to “Påskekrim” (By Laura Hall for BBC Travel) www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Another brilliant one from Sean Russell on the history of the region and the race and on the prospects for tomorrow's edition (£) www.thetimes.com/sport/cyclin...

Solution could help prevent millions of bird deaths every year. Windows are covered with a thin film that reflects ultraviolet light. Through the windows, an uninterrupted view. But birds see a striped pattern, warning them not to thwack their heads. (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Geophysicists say there is an increased risks of destructive floods and wild fires due to climate change. A guy who thinks he was teleported to a Waffle House says there's nothing to worry about. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Sources close to Jared and Ivanka Pilate say that, privately, the couple opposed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

“If we get rid of the [ban on seven-day bread sales], the small bakers across the country will lose out to the big groups. These small bakers can’t open seven days a week because they don’t have enough staff, but the bakery chains can easily do so.” (£) www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Apart from its wildernesses, those it hasn’t yet spoilt, America offers nothing to envy. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... MAGAs just don't seem to understand how much the rest of the world is starting to view their country with utter contempt.

since we're apparently on day 2 of "Bluesky discusses Bluesky" I would personally like to tell the "eh who cares, everything dies" crowd that actually a lot of media and creative types rely on social media to do their jobs, and already got shafted by Twitter getting Musked, and frankly: ahhhhhh!

The strongest predictor of male support for tradwife lifestyles was “hostile sexism”. This involves overtly negative beliefs about women, including that they manipulate men, exaggerate discrimination and should not expect equal power. (£) www.thetimes.com/life-style/s... By @rhysblakely.bsky.social

Happy Easter! Here's the first of a look at Easter stories over the past few years northeastbylines.co.uk/business/rur...

“In 2023–24 there were close to 88,600 hospitalisations for dental conditions that potentially could have been prevented. We publicly fund the catastrophic end of dental disease, while leaving the preventative and restorative middle to wallets, credit cards, and luck.” theaimn.net/the-tooth-th...

“The US military has protocols designed to constrain that kind of harm to the civilian population, but when the president speaks this way, it risks signalling that those constraints are optional, and that is what makes this moment so dangerous” #R4Today

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Water is most useful if you keep the hydrogen and use the two gases as fuel. This, says Professor Sowers, is what will give the lunar economy (metaphorical) escape velocity. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... @whippletom.bsky.social why it's again, still, always 'about the oil'. Or energy at least

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

Absolutely outrageous. #c4news didn't cover the biggest story in the world today: the closest living relative by male primogeniture of a warlord hasn't made a statement about a shamanic myth.

Welsh broadcaster and political commentator Carol Vorderman has warned of the threat posed by Reform UK and urged voters to ‘come out to vote to save our country’ ahead of the Senedd election

It is indisputably true that loose leaf tea, even of the main brands, is vastly superior to tea bags. Whenever I make tea for someone doing work here, they always say they like it. One neighbour working on another neighbour's house wanted a cup of tea from me rather than her.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Trump conducting purges of those not loyal to the Great Leader. #c4news

Swansea boss Vitor Matos was in jovial mood after his side's impressive fightback in the 3-3 draw at Sheffield United.

Now that Iran has started controlling the Strait and demanding a toll on some ships, why would it surrender it? #c4news

Lot of fascinating stuff in this thread. Thanks, Lucy.

The shape of ideas: Samuel Beckett (speaking to Harold Hobson during the production of Waiting for Godot, 1956) #GoodFriday

the Iran war will not solve the problems of the Middle East, and Europe and Asia will pick up the economic cost. But Trump will not care that much, and maybe in the end American voters won’t either. (£) www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Male will reach out, feel around, and detect female’s hormones to confirm he has found right partner. He uses hectocotylus to deliver a parcel of sperm, a spermatophore, into her mantle cavity, the bulbous, sac-like part behind eyes (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a... By @rhysblakely.bsky.social

Plasma is removed from the bloodstream and replaced with donor plasma to help stop antibodies in blood from attacking protective layer around nerve fibres. After 5 plasma exchanges she can now see clearly out of her right eye and has 75% in her left. (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

There's a guy on here who does threads of newspaper headlines going back decades to show how the latest moral panic is really just a reiteration of previous moral panics. Can't remember his handle though.

Cathy's greatest hits to end her last episode. Thanks for the news and the company. @cathynewman.bsky.social Good luck on the other side. #c4news

'The race to space has always been about geopolitics and who's got the biggest rockets. But enough about mansplaining politicians.' #c4news Minnie Stephenson is great and was having great fun there.