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Congratulations to all new members of the Courvoisier Future 500! – http://bit.ly/3N6xDm

Synthetic biology was confined to the world's most sophisticated laboratories a generation ago. http://bit.ly/1bwpe

Interesting (and very strange) video: Bristol time travel guide art project – http://bit.ly/2twFDm

How police rebranded lawful protest as 'domestic extremism' – http://bit.ly/Ozou9

Animating xkcd – http://bit.ly/gVdA9

A Second chance for the Large Hadron Collider – http://bit.ly/2J0YFc

Nick Horne discussing Afghanistan on the Today Program this morning: http://bit.ly/Wt0NV & Channel 4 News last night: http://bit.ly/4jHBCt

The strength of post-Soviet math stems from decades of lonely productivity – http://bit.ly/36UB8o

How To Write Badly Well – http://bit.ly/2Gjn4N

The estate of legendary Sci Fi author Isaac Asimov has authorised a trilogy of sequels to his seminal I, Robot series. http://bit.ly/2y8wp7

Salvaged nuclear weapon material now generates about 10% of electricity in the United States – http://bit.ly/27SPGD

Three books by Alistair Reynolds I'm quite keen to read: http://bit.ly/7xR8H, http://bit.ly/IGgv7, http://bit.ly/1HxLaL.

Mass migration has led to a rise in creationist beliefs across Europe, according to a British scientist. http://bit.ly/1yJ2WK

Supercool. The Mandelbrot set in 3d. http://bit.ly/35ciR6

Excellent. The Return of Gill Scott Heron – http://bit.ly/2iOLc0

How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer? http://bit.ly/p6b3c

Apocalypse Fatigue: Losing the Public on Climate Change: http://bit.ly/1G04sc

Hey, preacher - leave those kids alone – http://bit.ly/3TOeVK

Stupid amounts of comedy on Channel 4's new You Tube channel. http://bit.ly/1uqJIJ

Brilliant. Season 1 Epsiode 1 of Peep Show – http://bit.ly/30xyFV

Possibly even better. The Rise of the Idiots. Episode 1 of Nathan Barley – http://bit.ly/1TI1bB

Your flight has an impact. Plane Stupid's new cinema ad – http://bit.ly/8BYcKI

How To Be A Successful Evil Overlord – http://bit.ly/4GM7JJ

Pretending the climate email leak isn't a crisis won't make it go away – George Monbiot – http://bit.ly/7R3bN6

Please don't label me. Interesting critique the BHA's current poster campaign. http://bit.ly/8TBlLI

'HDR Photo' search on Google images – http://bit.ly/6YwfgW

How many sociologists does it take to change a lightbulb? 5. 1 to change the lightbulb and 4 to examine The Wire. http://bit.ly/5mzafX

Primary school league tables: City of Bristol Sats results 2009 – http://bit.ly/4GUYDy

Pretty funny. Evening Post Columnist and compulsive attention seeker, Mike Ford, interview with Bristol DJ Jed Pitman. http://bit.ly/6clLL4

RT @felixsalmon: Stephen Fry, debater extraordinaire: http://bit.ly/8hYC4b http://bit.ly/7Ilohz

@Monbiot – George Monbiot's correspondence with Professor Ian Plimer http://bit.ly/7puFc5

Somewhat harsh I think: Rebels who look ridiculous http://bit.ly/87a5wI

Believers subconsciously endow God with their own beliefs on controversial issues. http://bit.ly/5Ff5AY

145 years of the Clifton Suspension Bridge – http://bit.ly/6W6ecA

2 days in London, meetings, old friends and the Futute 500 annual bash. Could be interesting.

So You Want to Live to 100? http://bit.ly/8dqqOp

I'm not a geek – Mandelbrot Set Zoom Set to Jonathan Coulton's "Mandelbrot Set" http://bit.ly/6f2P8P

Video – What would the sky look like if Earth had rings like Saturn – http://bit.ly/8rG8U9

Climate Change Deniers vs The Consensus – Information Is Beautiful http://bit.ly/7j38JU

BBC deletes Trafigura story on toxic waste dumping in the Ivory Coast after legal threats – http://bit.ly/8Bik9r

The Arrogant VC: A View From the Trenches – http://bit.ly/6c4ynR

@MattRudd. I saw this and thought of you. "Subject: Our Marketing Plan" http://bit.ly/7upoVv

Climate 'scepticism' and questions about gender – http://bit.ly/7d1BH5

RT @MrVikas. Interview with Prof Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute. http://tinyurl.com/te-bostrom

Alan Partidge on Radio 7 – classic interview with France's 2nd Best Racing Car Driver. http://bit.ly/4FnN7i

I wrote this story 10 years ago. The Necessary Witch – http://bit.ly/7bkMlC

Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2009 – http://bit.ly/6FKdux

2 great astronomy videos to put things in perspective: http://bit.ly/6zVCmZ and http://bit.ly/8YKOzY

And while I'm at it: The Billion-Year Technology Gap: Could One Exist? http://bit.ly/85B1Cc

Information Arbitrage: Thoughts on Taking Venture Money – http://bit.ly/7wjrRo

Worldometers – real time world statistics – http://bit.ly/8ipiwF

Angels, Putti, Dragon's and Fairies: Believing the Impossible (pdf) http://bit.ly/8yXCzc

villageidiot222 comments on Reddit – or interesting links for interesting people http://bit.ly/5YFk0o

Bristol has "the quietest room in the world" – http://bit.ly/5FAzgK

1 1/4 hours to walk from Horfield to Clifton. No buses today. Lots of weather on Twitter. Check out Trendsmap. http://bit.ly/6AnuyV

BristolBloggerGate or "there's something about Sir Howard Newby" http://bit.ly/7KaLzd

Robert Heinlein – Response to Fan Mail. http://bit.ly/8VQRSO

Amazing Astronomy – wonderful images – http://bit.ly/6Y40vu

Pain or prayer? Two ways to grow a religion – http://bit.ly/6TFbvR

Great Comedy – Bleak Expectations: Series 1 episode 1: A Childhood Cruelly Kippered – http://bit.ly/73ixUc

New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the Future – http://bit.ly/80ika3

Physicists Calculate Exact Number of Alternate Universes – http://bit.ly/4V5VjU

Looking for Life in the Multiverse – Universes with different physical laws might still be habitable – http://bit.ly/4F8Cdf

The Top 9 Viral Videos of the Green Movement, 1958-2010 http://bit.ly/73eLYQ

RT @moneyscience: You can learn a lot about gambling if you're willing to analyze 27 million hands of online poker. http://bit.ly/4vGhBc

My brother Lawrence has set up the Burma Orphanage Project – http://bit.ly/6q7oM6

Crazy #image – Children in Chin Village plagued my rats. http://bit.ly/8HFTMs – #viral #charity

RT @MoneyScience – Classic: Dubai Debt Crisis Halts Building Of World's Largest Indoor Mountain Range – http://bit.ly/4BQBH6

So I don't tweet finance here. You can find all that over on @moneyscience, @hedgefundfocus, @businessschools, @risk_mgmt and @msluxury

Video: Victor, 14 months clean, talks about Stokes Croft in Bristol. http://bit.ly/5PLRGi

A 2-day conference: 'The detection of extraterrestrial life and the consequences for science and society.' http://bit.ly/4mIY7o

According to this paper: "those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology" – http://bit.ly/84fU5w

@SSRN – In Vino Veritas: The Economics of Drinking – http://bit.ly/7ditTe

Demand is growing for non-religious chaplaincy services – http://bit.ly/7wkNw3

100 Inspirational, Entrepreneurial Talks on YouTube – http://bit.ly/coKL4O

"Who will be the first person to be charged with assault by handshake?" http://bit.ly/bCpHO9

Brilliant. Extraterrestrials in Yatton. http://bit.ly/ceU5ez

As the saying goes, in politics, when you are explaining, you are losing – http://bit.ly/933rgT

Academics fight rise of creationism at universities –http://bit.ly/cdjWhE

Trailer – Gordon Gecko Returns in Wall Street 2 – Money Never Sleeps – http://bit.ly/brA8xD