More links to articles you may have missed.
Apparently odd numbers are dodgy — except for 7 — but even numbers are good.
So just what is the evolutionary or biological purpose of menstruation? Even you girlies might be surprised at the (details of) the answer.
While we’re on girlie bits, here’s probably more than you wanted to know about having a tit reduction.
Most of my friends will have managed to navigate this OK, but just in case you needed to know, here’s how to care for your changeling.
On the stress of trying to cope with a life-threatening nut allergy.
For all those of you who sleep together, apparently the way you sleep says volumes about your relationship, unless you sleep on your back. Not sure how Noreen and I have survived all these years then.
Research tells us that in the UK we start kids on formal learning much too young. As so often Europe gets it right and we get it wrong.

And now for something more light-hearted. Here’s a medieval image of John Lennon. Love the specs!
While on the old, here’s more on the riddle of the Voynich Manuscript. The article is suggesting it is a forgery — I agree this seems likely.
Back about 1750, long before Cleopatra’s Needle, Canaletto painted a large obelisk on the north bank of the Thames in London. IanVisits investigates.
For once a sensible and accurate article about the Japanese, sub-tropical paradise of Okinawa and Okinawan music in the UK press. And it quotes my friend John Potter.
How the coming of the railways changed elopement.

Meanwhile in Paris the new-fangled police force were spying on the mistresses of the well-to-do for no apparent reason.
And in modern Munich nudity is perfectly OK.
Apparently 2014 has been designated the Year of the Bush. And not before time, say I.
Finally … So you’re worried that your naked body isn’t perfect. Don’t be. A masseuse reassures us that we’re all the same — beautifully imperfect!