More items you may have missed and will wish you hadn’t. As usual the more scientific (though that doesn’t mean more difficult or incomprehensible) stuff first …
Ten scientific ideas that have transferred to common parlance and which we all misuse.

We’ve known for a long time that building bigger roads actually makes traffic worse, not better. Here’s a piece on why this is.
Ever wanted to know what it’s like to do research on whale vaginas? This will tell you (some of it).
Humans are very successful at domesticating animals — so successful there are three times as many chickens in the world as there are humans! Moreover we’re so good we apparently domesticated ourselves.
Apparently there is evidence that nudity provides health benefits for both body and brain.
Men’s naked bodies are the stuff of nightmares — NOT!
One day scientists will actually make up their minds … Maryn McKenna suggests it is likely that fat is good for us.
An interesting piece from Emily Nagoski re-analysing old data which shows that even before the pill, more sex did not mean more pregnancies.
So men think about sex every few seconds. Well maybe not!
So from sex to pussies … There are a few things you can do to hopefully add years to your cat’s life.
An interesting short piece on why it is so hard to objectively judge expensive wines — actually make that any wine.
Like judging wine, it’s all in the mnd. Here’s a quick “index card” summary of memory loss.

How the medievals got it so fantastically wrong about mandrake: the plant they thought murderous and grown from the blood of a hanged man.
Next year we celebrate the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and the British Library is staging a special exhibition as well as bringing together the four surviving 1215 copies of Magna Carta. Here’s a portal to their Magna Carta exhibition page, webpages and medieval manuscripts weblog.
Our friendly blogging London cab driver is still investigating the history of Waterloo Station. Here’s part 7: trivia.
Finally to end on a worrying note, WTF is wrong with Americans? According to this guy it is all down to their education system. And the UK isn’t too far behind!
Gawdelpus!