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