San Marino 5 euro 2015 - Milan Expo

New silver proof: ' Expo Milano 2015: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life ' (news and image from Pabitra Saha )

San Marino 10 euro 2015 - Abraham Lincoln

New silver proof: ' 150th anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln ' (news and image from Pabitra Saha )

DoD Notified of OPM Cybersecurity Incident

DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, June 4, 2015 – The U.S. Office of Personnel Management announced today a recent cybersecurity i...

Inking Possibilities

One of the benefits of being alive for decades is the extraordinary changes seen.  One worth noting is the burst of color on television scre...

A round barrow at Pitsford

The Victoria County History entry for Pitsford is intriguing: On different sides of the road leading out of the Market Harborough road into...

We need to decide who it is we hope will vote Liberal Democrat

Rafael Behr , winning our Opening Sentence of the Day Award in passing, says something we Liberal Democrats should bear in mind as we choose...

DoD Announces Research Equipment Award Recipients

DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, June 4, 2015 – The Defense Department announced today that 225 university researchers at 111...

Charles Kennedy on Question Time

Charles Kennedy appeared on Question Time on 42 occasions, the first of them in 1983. This selection of clips from those appearances has bee...

Insulin Resistance Predicts a Variety of Age-related Diseases

In the last post, I reviewed a study by Gerald Reaven's group showing that insulin resistance strongly predicts the risk of cardiovascul...