We wouldn't normally advocate Facebook groups, but this is one you HAVE to sign up to. You just have to. How amazing would this be? So now Life in Cold Blood is over, and the great man has hung up his broadcasting boots for good, what better tribute than to replace the starchy, boring voice on the London Underground with the silky, enthusiastic utterances of Sir David Attenborough. We'd finally learn what lives beneath Warren......

SFist worried over drugstore chain Walgreens celebration of Black History Month.Gothamist was surprised that apparently New York City is the fourth most miserable city in the country, after Detroit, Stockton, CA, and Flint, MI.Shanghaiist finds out what the Chinese think of Hilary and Obama.It was with a healthy amount of schadenfreude that Phillyist reported that former Eagle, and now Cowboy (ew), Terrell Owens owes the Eagles a significant wad of cash.Torontoist is two weeks......

It turns out that Thames Water is doing more at their Crossness facility than just processing sewage from nearly two million Londoners each day. To give you a very unpleasant visual image to go along with that statistic, apparently that's enough sewage to fill 20 olympic size swimming pools every hour. They also own and manage the Crossness Nature Reserve in Bexley, one of the last remaining grazing marshes in Greater London. It's home......

Hanging on to their promise to be the "greenest games ever" the Olympic Masterplanners are organising a wildlife search and rescue operation to save the aquatic inhabitants of stagnant Pudding Mill River, Stratford, from the impending bulldozers. Fish will be coaxed out of this grotty stretch of water and transplanted to the cleaner and livelier climes of the River Lea. Well, when we say "coaxed" what we mean is "stunned". Electric eels, anyone? Yes,......

Further evidence of a decline in London's bird population was published yesterday. It seems mild winters are attracting birds towards the bountiful treats of the countryside and away from our gardens. A secondary factor is the rise in nest prices, with a typical urban perch now beyond the budget of the average first-time flyer. The results are presented in the RSPB's Big Garden Bird Watch (is the focus here on big gardens or big......

a completely dead red-barbed ant BBC.com tell us that a team of scientists from the Zoological Society of London are beginning an ambitious project to save one of Britain's most endangered species… … the red-barbed ant (Formica rufibarbus) ... ... also known as the 'St. Martin's ant'. Why 'St. Martin's ant'? Your guess is as good as ours. The red-barbed ant ranges throughout Europe, from Western Siberia all the way to Portugal. Though it is......

Well, the elements gave us a bit of a battering last week, with plenty of damage and several people killed. But lest we get all worked up about global warming and freaky weather, it's worth remembering that the capital is no stranger to the Force 10 fart of Mother Nature. Here's a roundup of, erm, past wind. 1091: Strong winds make their debut on the recorded history of London. On October 23rd that year,......

This week - Borat visits the USA (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan) and British rom-com set on Hampstead Heath, (Scenes of a Sexual Nature). When we saw the posters for this on the tube, with five star reviews from the News of the World and the Mirror, we were ready for this to be shit. Turns out it's ok though, who'd have thought? All of the reviewers......

This Day in London's History Best stay at home today. 16 October seems to be a date of doom and/or gloom for the capital. (And, incidentally, it's also Davina MaCall's birthday.) 1834: Disastrous fire at Westminster. What Guy Fawkes et al. had failed to do 200 years earlier, a bundle of old tally sticks managed in 1834. The outmoded accounting tools were set for disposal. Dickens sums up what happened next: It came to......

Nature, red in tooth and claw. So there was some sort of nature programme that everyone and their spirit guide has been going on about (Planet Earth, Sun 9pm BBC1), which even we thought we’d better watch, although nature programmes have never been high on our list of ‘favourite genres’ (distinct lack of gun fights, murder mysteries – the lion did it! – and space battles). Our verdict? Well, it was a pleasant enough......

DCist helps us make more sense of the world this week. Posts like this concert review are the reason for Scott Stapp. DCist also enumerates the reasons for playing ultimate frisbee, Condi's tight buns, their love of a local convenience store, and their jealousy of a person in Seattle calling the city. LAist documented graf artist Banksy's most recent visit to LA in one two three posts. They also found the best possible use......

Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré London has been home to more double-acts than Great Yarmouth pier. Just off the top of the head, there’s Johnson & Boswell, the Adam Brothers, Holmes and Watson, the Krays, and recent North-London comedy duo Henry and Pires. Add to the mix the little-known Victorian pairing of Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré, whose minor classic ‘London A Pilgrimage’ has just been re-released by Anthem Press. Londonist has wanted to......

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us at LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event Of The Week More Chocology at the Royal Institution Event of the Week, clearly, should be Londonist's First Birthday Party (which, in case this isn't hard-wired into you brain yet, is tomorrow). But the pedants amongst you might notice that there's little scientific about boozing, schmoozing and boogieing.......

With two killer insect stories in one week Mother Nature is really spoiling us as we love a good bug scare, London's ladybird population though is probably less happy about it. The latest illegal immigrant to come to our shores, taking our jobs and endangering our flora and fauna is the large Multivariate Asian Ladybird - a native of Japan and Siberia. Experts are unsure how the distinctively marked bug assassin made its way......