12-27-2015, 02:16 AM
Average Lego set has increased in value 12 per cent each year since the turn of the Millennium, providing a better return than mainstream investments
Lego a 'better investment than shares and gold' - Telegraph
Across the country on New Year’s Eve, people will take to dance floors to groove away the last hours of 2015. But one of Britain’s most eminent philosophers is unlikely to be among the masses of humanity moving to a techno beat. Roger Scruton, author of more than 40 books and a noted authority on aesthetics, has used his latest work to offer a withering critique of much of modern dancing. In Confessions of a Heretic, a collection of essays to be published in the spring, Scruton takes issue with the dancing witnessed in the nation’s clubs and pubs, in which participants “jerk on to the floor in obedience to the puppet master at the desk”. Modern dancers, he notes, also “tend to avoid contact with each other, since there is no agreed convention as to what form their contact should take”.
Jive talkin’: top philosopher says modern dance has lost its soul | Life and style | The Guardian
This method of gaining their trust is called habituation. It was Fossey's great gift to the world, says gorilla conservationist Ian Redmond, who worked closely with her for over three years. Eventually it led to human-gorilla friendships. "I mean that seriously," says Redmond. "Gorillas are so like us and they can see they're like us. They are as fascinated by us as we are by them. They actually inspected us physically, pulled our lips down and looked at our teeth. They were very curious about this gorilla-like animal that does such different things [to them]."
BBC - Earth - The woman who gave her life to save the gorillas
Among more extreme cases reported by ambulance services are: A patient who called 999 more than 700 times in two years. The estimated costs to the ambulance service over a year was more than £110,000. A patient who cost NHS England £10,000 in a month. A patient who made 238 emergency calls over two months at a cost of nearly £40,000.
Frequent 999 callers cost NHS millions of pounds a year | Society | The Guardian
What would Britain be worth if we put it on the market? Official estimate reveals how much each person would receive if we sold the entire country and everything in it