So soon already we have another collection of links to items you missed the first time round.
This first item will worry many people. According to scientists there are only three things preventing the world from converting to 100% nuclear energy: money, the political will and public acceptance. And it could be done in about 30 years which would likely be enough to put a big dent in global warming. Despite all the challenges this works for me.
We’ve known for some time that foetal cells hide in the mother’s body (and vice versa, too). But what do they do?

Eyes. They’re amazing organs. So it isn’t surprising there are lots of things to go wrong with eyes.
After all I’ve said, are you still resisting nudity? Well here are some scientific reasons why you shouldn’t.
Is peeing like a horse a reliable sign of (female) virginity, as was believed in days past? Spoiler: probably not.
While on the subject of urination, research that showed most mammals (regardless of size) can empty their bladders in 21 seconds has won this year’s Ig Nobel for Physics. Here’s the full list of this year’s awards.
Work on assessing the painfulness of insect stings also won an Ig Nobel this year for Dr Justin Schmidt who has spent much of his life rating the pain on a scale of 1 to 4 — by experiencing it himself.
Talking of pain, why is a smack on the funny bone quite so excruciatingly painful?
The best cure for pain is often sleep. But, largely due to the pressure of modern society, many of us are sleep deprived and would benefit from waking up a bit later. Certainly it is now well accepted that teenagers body clocks are our of sync with the rest of us.
Dogs have owners, cats have staff. Proven.
OK, so cats and dogs have different psychological needs, but here are twenty cognitive biases which affect your decisions. Yes, even yours!
From the top floor, let’s now take the elevator to the sub-basement. IanVisits asks: do strikes by underground staff improve London’s economy?
And now to some proper history. Well maybe a little improper … An historian appears to have found the first ever use of the word “fuck” in the record of a 1310 English court case. That’s over 200 years earlier than the OED knows about!
Rather more up to date, Londonist has been to look at the secret bunker under Churchill’s secret wartime bunker. Who knew?
IanVisits again, only this time another in his irregular series on Unbuilt London. In the 1960s there was a scheme to remove buses from central London and replace them with a monorail. It never happened, which is a shame as we could have had a rival to Wuppertal’s Schwebebahn.
Finally … If you’re anything like me, and it seems thousands of others, you detest having chefs serve you your food on chunks of wood or slate or … well just about anything except a plate. This is such a bête noire for many that there is now a Twitter feed @WeWantPlates.
And not a mention of sex!