Podcast Episode · Politics Weekly UK · 3 October · 53min

The move comes weeks after the former leader was sentenced to 27 years in jail over an attempted coup plot.

Researchers into idea to blend powdered PTFE into food as a zero-calorie filler to curb hunger win chemistry prize For decades scientists, doctors and public health officials have battled to solve the obesity crisis. Now researchers have won an Ig Nobel prize for a radical new approach: slashing people’s calorie intake by feeding them Teflon. The left-field proposal was inspired by zero calorie drinks and envisaged food manufacturers blending powdered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) into their products in the hope it would sate people’s hunger before quietly sliding out. Continue reading...

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YouTube video by Marsh Family

Since Donald Trump has unilaterally renamed The Gulf of Mexico, parliament should vote to unilaterally rename The United States of America to The British Territory of South Canada. It should appear as...

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YouTube video by Marsh Family

YouTube video by Henry Morris (nee Secret Tory)

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Ronnie Lessa and Élcio de Queiroz sentenced to 78 and 59 years over 2018 murder of prominent Rio city councillor

Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day with a unique science cabaret featuring inspiring women in STEM at the Royal Institution

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Firefighters and police in Rondônia battle fires intensified by both the climate crisis and a criminal assault on the rainforest

Satellite internet service’s antennas are everywhere, from illegal mining sites to isolated Indigenous villages