TAG: london
Unintended consequences of the smoking ban
"So it turns out that banning smoking in pubs has not so much encouraged smokers to quit but instead provided them with a decisive competitive reproductive advantage if they keep puffing away."
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Bummed I'm missing it, some great speakers there.
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From London: "Eight months into my pregnancy only one man has given me his seat on public transport. Were the rest afraid of being sexist?"
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The Best Town to Make an Upper Lip Stiff
"An explosion of cocktail quality and variety in London’s watering holes is making this city a new locus for connoisseurs of mixed drinks."
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Steven Johnson on THE GHOST MAP
"Author Steven Johnson discusses the most intense outbreak of cholera in Victorian London - and what it means to us today, from the way we understand cities, science, disease, and the modern world."
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Pigeons May Coo but They Aren't Cute, the Mayor Says
"Under an unusual agreement, a pigeon-advocacy group has been allowed to scatter corn in a corner of the square [Trafalger in London] for 10 minutes at 7:30 every morning, then leave."
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Banksy Takes on The Melbourne Street Art Scene
The biggest loser of the Commonwealth games, says graffiti artist Banksy, is Melbourne's street art scene - and London could be next for the whitewash
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Could we chart the branches and connections of 100 years of music using the London Underground map? Dorian Lynskey explains how a box of coloured crayons and lot of swearing helped.
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"NATURE lovers fear that squirrels could become hooked on crack cocaine plundered from addicts' hidden stashes."
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"John D. Berry journeys through the bowels of our transit systems in search of enlightenment and a few clear directions."
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A look at the different ways people in London, Paris and Madrid use their mobile phones.
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Cityofsound on London's private public spaces
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Graffiti artists pour scorn on Saatchi's street art campaign
Times Online: "As part of a £20 million campaign for a new Brazilian spirit it is spray-painting graffiti images on walls and buildings in the East End of London as a way to reach young consumers immune to conventional advertising."
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After five years and 22 million visitors, Tate Modern has changed the way we think about contemporary art
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Guardian: "What happens to the large-scale installations commissioned for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall when they are taken down? "
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There are pubs everywhere in London. Usually at least one every two or three blocks on the larger streets.
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