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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 Seeing as M@, the Cogito Ergo Master, is sunning himself on a beach right now, us …

Two members of the gang who raided Ernest Jones in Richmond, and took £120,000 worth of Rolex watches, were on day release from prison. The London cab driver accused of rape by ‘the sister of a British film star’ has been cleared. Wendy, the Virgin …

What are the Royal Family for? As an anachronistic reminder of our forelock-tugging, hierarchy-beholden, deferential past, they’re about as welcome in modern Britain as the sticky can of Stella you find hiding behind the sofa six months after the party. The sticky can of Stella …

Londonist is as addicted to buying DVDs as everyone else, so it made sense that we should start a regular column to highlight the little laser-etched treats coming your way over the next week or so. Let us know what you think in the comments. …

We saw this over on Boing Boing and thought we should share it. PledgeBank is a simple idea for people who want to achieve something, but are worried that it’s too big a job to tackle solo. Say you want to get a group of …

Sometime on Sunday evening Hunter S Thompson took his own life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado. That’s as far away from London as you can imagine but we feel that we would be lacking as writers …

The Londonist was interested to read that about 200,000 people left the UK this year for more than 12 months, half of them aged between 25 and 44. A total of 513,000 people arrived, according to figures from the Office Of National Statistics (pdf file). …