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Transport for London has released a beta version of its handy website for planning journeys – and it’s brighter, cleaner and all round jolly well nicer than before. Above is the shiny n…

Twitter now provides you with pretty extensive metrics and analytics for the performance of your tweets via its Ads dashboard (via TNW), in a move that looks designed to get more people (including individuals) aware of and using the Twitter Ads platform. The new free analytics dashboard access allows anyone to see the performance of their tweets, including how many Faves, Retweets and Replies each has received, as well as letting them sort by "Best, Good or All" for at-a-glance ranking of tweet performance.

A new blend of afro flavoured mid tempo stuff, some house & other shit.. Enjoy.. Shina Williams & His African Percussionist – Agboju Logun Asafo Beesuon – Medley (Gruff & Grey edit) Loredana Bertè - Ti Piacerebbe (Marvin & Guy edit) Alex Burkat – Shower Scene Typesun – Last Home (DJ Nature mix) Labi Sifri – Rocking Chair (DJ Catalist edit) The Revolution Of St Vincent – The Little You Say Solo Hit – Imoikeme Kuniyuki feat. Henrik Schwarz – The Session 2 Rogue Mecanique – Witches M+M – Black Stations/White Stations (instrumental) Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – The Night

Materials scientist and Christmas Lecturer Mark Miodownik demonstrates some of the weird properties of ferrofluid. This liquid is literally ‘dripping with magnetism’, containing a suspension of ferromagnetic nanoparticles that make the liquid responsive to external magnetic fields, generating unusual patterns, shapes and motion. Oh, and while we’re on the subject of ferrofluids, there’s a cool […]

Game of Thrones is serious business. There was a fair amount of fan outcry, shock and horror following a recent episode aired from season three called ‘Red Wedding’. Twitter was ablaze with comments dissecting what happened and how the show

The video showing unassuming bus passengers being spliced into bus stop posters has been viewed over 12 million times online.

Giuseppe Verdi, Luciano Pavarotti, Dame Joan Sutherland, Huguette Tourangeau, Sherrill Milnes, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge · Song · 1971

Adam Vaughan: Our international team, on every continent apart from Antarctica, will open up the world's environmental news

After starting her working life as a dressmaker, Sarah Chesters changed to a career in horticulture. Here she shares her experiences and gives advice on how to join the gardening profession

On electronic music guide The Letter we wtite about Techno, Electro, Ambient and Pop, covering reviews, news, tunes and gossip from social media

The Black Sun Empire podcast: Guestmix by State of Mind Like State of Mind on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stateofmindnz Follow State of Mind on Twitter: https://twitter.com//StateofMindNZ Listen to State of Mind on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/stateofmindnz All episodes are also available on itunes so sign up there itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/black…cast/id289451330 or subcribe to our newsletter on www.blackoutmusic.nl so you will get notified as soon as there is a new edition :D tracklist: 1. GenR8 - Book of Aquarius 2. Phace & Misanthrop - Waveform (Vision) 3.Kantyze - Factory Slum (M-Atome) 4. Treo & 2Shy - Reality 5. Borderline - Meteroite VIP (SOM) 6. Nick Bee - Apollon 18 7. Optiv & CZA - I can Hear Myself 8. Zardonic - Kick Arse (Neonlight Remix) 9. Optiv & BTK - Malfunction (Blackout) 10. BSE - The Rat - Gridlok Remix 11. Wickaman & Hoodlum ft. Golden - Frequency (Infrared) 12. State of Mind - Nighttide (Incognito remix) (SOM) 13. State of Mind & Nymfo - Get Humpty 14. Break - Authentic 15. Prolix - Feed the Habit VIP 16. State of Mind - Whirlpool (M-Atome) 17. Borderline - Things We Need 18. Maztek - M Theory 19. Zardonic & Mesinian - Survive - (State of Mind Remix) 20. C4C - Never Acid Again (C4C Rec) 21. State of Mind - Spastic Audio (Mindscape Remix) (M-Atome) 22. Maztek - Caph 23. State of Mind & Borderline - Square One (SOM) 24. DJ Vapour - Terminated (NC17 Remix) 25. Nymfo - Woodpecker 26. Zero Method - Cold War (Optiv Remix) 27. Eyes Closed - Telekinesis (Blackout) 27. State of Mind & Chris Su - The Burning (SOM) 28. Loadstar - Warrior (Ram) 29. Six Blade - Burnout (Viper) 30. Dose - Nine Lives (Subtitles) 31. Gridlok & Prolix - Membrane (Ram)

Stephen Fry has revealed he attempted suicide last year whilst he was filming abroad.

Web design would be dramatically different if HTML had been born with some foresight for storytelling devices like maps. We certainly can’t blame web pioneers for focusing on type and images instead…

Not up for 120 slides? Here's a pull of the best ones, with a focus on the data-heavy charts and graphs.