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Matt Brown

I'm Editor of Londonist and utterly obsessed with the capital.

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Cogito Ergo Summary: Your Weekly Science Listings

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Why Creationism is Wrong and Evolution is Right, The Royal Society If Steve Jones was called …

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London’s Lewdest Etchings

Number 27: Window of the Albert Tavern This charming little boozer can be found at 52 Victoria Street. Or should that be Victoria’s treat? For if you look closely at the frosted windows, you’ll notice a blatant representation of what we presume is the late …

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Who Are The World’s Top Ten Ginger Celebrities?

That final word in vacuous enquiries comes from Oxford Street’s Plaza centre. They’re having a special weekend on April 1st/2nd devoted to red-heads (assuming it’s not an April Fool’s prank). As well as various ‘surprises, offers and discounts’, there’s the chance to vote for your …

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Red Line Returns, Mystery Deepens

The mystery red line is back. And this time it’s tricksier than ever. The new piece of minimalist pavement art picks up where it left off, opposite the Novotel on Euston Road. (Camden Council must be apoplectic, after doing their best to erase the earlier …

Cogito Ergo Summary: Your Weekly Science Listings

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com No ‘Event of the Week’ in today’s listings. Sorry. Two reasons. (1) Nothing really catches the eye this week (the …

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Seems Covent Garden Takes Its Name Literally

You know the green revolution is starting to catch on when even construction sites have hanging baskets. These shots were taken at the junction of Kemble Street and Drury Lane, where we were surprised to find orange cones and pot plants living side by side …

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Mystery Set In Stone

On one of our frequent joyful jaunts around the city, we stumbled across this intriguing series of stone carvings. The works decorate the otherwise prosaic offices of Diageo, at 8 Henrietta Place (just north of Bond St station). They’re the folk who look after some …

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Skyscraper Plans Multiply Quicker Than You Could Say ‘Babel’

A couple more proposed skyscrapers have emerged over the past week. Both of them are only at early design stages and seem to set new standards in bonkers architecture. We mean that in a nice way. If London has to grow tall, then it should …

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Monday Miscellanea

This day in London’s history Is this the dullest date ever in London’s history? The best we can come up with is the completion, in 1807, of some new docks in Rotherhithe. Oh, and Southgate and Enfield West opened on the Piccadilly Line in 1933. …

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TfL Are No Fun Any More

Just a quick note to say that if you’ve enjoyed all those hilarious versions of the Tube map that’ve appeared lately, you might want to visit this site quick. Like, before Monday. Geofftech has been hosting useful, comical and down-right surreal variants on the famous …