BBC in touch?

Interesting comparison between the BBC home page stories and what we’re reading. Sadly, it looks like we’re more Hello than Harvard.

Very short stories

Nice idea for six-word stories. They are a bit like the literary equivalent of smells – very evocative without you being quite able to place them. I liked:Tick tock tick tock tick tick

Very big pictures

I can’t be bothered to repeat the statistics, but these are amazingly large / high definition photographs, and very impressive.

US portions

It took us several days in Boston (we went for an extra-long weekend ahead of a work trip for Caroline) to come to grips with US portion sizes (e.g. get a starter to share and then hope you can fit the main in; absolutely no chance of pudding). There is research to...