Slamming UK Anti-Science

Smashing Telly presents Dr. Ben Goldacre laying waste to the media’s obsession with scare stories involving science and medicine. In the linked video Goldacre takes on anti-vaccination conspiracy theorists, chiefly the LBC’s Jeni Barnett.

Goldacre writes The Guardian’s Bad Science column and maintains his own Bad Science blog. He’s also a delicious user, with plenty of good links but no tags.

English things

A set of brand-name English food product illustrations.

See also the set of two Scottish things.

Trawlers are 'destroying history on the seabed'

The chains and cables used by commercial fishing ships are wrecking British shipwrecks.

Investigations using robot submarines have revealed that serious damage has been inflicted on vast numbers of the 32,000 pre-1945 ships whose wrecks litter Britain’s coastal waters. Examples include the recently discovered 18th-century warship HMS Victory, which led Britain’s fleet before Nelson’s flagship of the same name. In 1744, Victory sank with all hands near the Channel Islands. Cannon hauled from the wreck showed it had suffered severe damage from trawlers.

Where is the path (or street)

A split-screen map, with the Ordnance Survey map on one side and your choice of Google map on the other.

It might be interesting to try two types of Google map on either side of the screen, or four types in each corner. Overlay maps—and I’m thinking specifically of Google’s hybrid version—obscure some of the visual data. With side-by-side you don’t get this; it just takes up more space—a forgivable sin if you’re building a map for monitors only.

Migurski found this via Tom Taylor.