Friday, April 12, 2013

Tickled my fancy

Recent links I liked:

Drugs that block nitric oxide could weaken cancer cells’ resistance, researchers say. Is there no bodily process in which NOx is not fundamentally involved?

The Beatles and their impact on English

Children and schools just keep getting better - a refreshing reminder that it is not just exam grades which are on a seemingly inexorably upwards trend

For better or worse, America’s Most Profitable Export Is Cash

Pressure cooker - read this through your fingers if you  are as scared of pressure cookers as I am.

Most boring day in history

Islands in the rain and BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on other remarkable things about water