Jim Parsons, the Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper, plays a huge succession of different characters in this cancer charity video. Joyful, absolutely joyful.

Homeopathy does not work beyond placebo, it is a menace to public health and a drain on the limited resource of the NHS. It is an 18th century quack medicine consisting of magical rituals practised by deluded, cargo-cult “doctors” that has no place in government thinking, and it should not be endorsed by the registered pharmacists who are at the frontline of public health in the UK.

Hear, hear!

Interesting. I shall be keeping an eye on this to see how it all works out.

• A US Republican Senator (Kansas)
• An English guy living in Canada who also rides motorbikes
• An artist from Manchester, UK
• A surgeon in the BBC dramas Casualty and Holby City
• A French comic-book secret agent (how cool is that?)

I know there are others, but these are my favourites. Does anyone interesting share your name?

Beneath our feet, stories of the past lie waiting to be told.

Over the last 30 years, the Museum of London has excavated, examined and archived 17,000 skeletons. Now, 26 of them are to go on display at the Wellcome Trust in London.

They each have a story to tell about life in the capital hundreds of years ago.

Truly fascinating stuff. I think I’ll have to go and see them.

If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
Japanese Proverb

I came across the above proverb and it made me wonder about other tea-related sayings. A quick search turned up Tea Quotes and Sayings. Tea is a wonderful thing, and it seems that lots of other people agree with me.

A nice little article that contrasts the way the super-rich live now with the way that their Tudor counterparts did, especially in their interactions with the less fortunate people who supported them, with some nice references to the re-enactments at Kentwell Hall, which really are worth visiting.