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Last month, Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast fame tossed this little nugget to the Twitter wolves: I love Zauner, but a few things here make me scratch my head. We’re not talking about The Beatles today, but Revolver is most certainly not a snob pick. It’s constantly ranked as the best pop album of all time, and if not the top spot, almost always in the top ten. I’m also genuinely curious about what album beats it amongst The Beatles fandom that gives a shit about this?

Yes, science as depicted by many great writers - Orwell, Huxley, C.S Lewis - becomes all too easily the 'lights of perverted science' to quote Churchill. The history of science is littered with wrong turns. To the modern mind, trained in science propaganda, it is inconceivable that the abstraction called 'science' could ever be wrong, or take a wrong turn. The expectation is that 'science' is always right, benign and positive if not perfect.

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In today's installment of Badasses Of History 😀it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to Mr Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of Britain's greatest engineers, and stovepipe hat aficionado (Brunel was short of stature and suffered very much from insecurity about his height, which sadly dogged him all his life. You wonder how he would have felt about being chosen as the second greatest Briton of all time, in a BBC reader’s poll).