(Part 2) Top products from r/london

Thanks very much for stopping by :) I was heartened by your link, and the progress described.

> That doesn't necessarily exclude alternative medicines... but not sure how many of those have been established to effective by the scientific community.

Actually, that definition would exclude everything that calls itself "alternative medicine". Anything that has been proven to be effective is simply called "medicine" :)

I recommend Trick or Treatment if you'd like to read a review of the evidence by experts for laymen, or Bad Science (book or blog) for more stuff.

Lastly - and sorry to bang on for so long - you could do worse than get in touch with former MP Dr Evan Harris, who gave this talk along with Prof David Nutt. It was a most enjoyable evening - but more importantly, Dr Harris is part of a campaign to make more policies based on sound evidence, and he could probably tell you a lot more than I could :)

Agreed, loved Rivers of London. I've read the sequel Moon Over Soho as well. I think I liked the first one better bit it was still good :). Pick up a signed copy from the Waterstones in Covent Garden, that's where the author works / worked. Their London book section is quite good as well.

I happen to collect Londony books, way hey!

Mark Mason's Walk the Lines is pretty great. Guy takes on the task of walking the Underground routes overground. The book has lots of Underground and general London facts and stories.

Paul Talling's London's Lost Rivers and Derelict London are nice to just pick and look through every now and then.

Ackroyd's Biography is great, but for something a bit lighter there's I Never Knew That About London.

I'm always suspicious of internet cafés. If not for money laundering, there's definitely dodgy stuff going on there. I'd recommend reading the book Dark Market by Misha Glenny to gain similar levels of paranoia to me.

Likewise, there are a number of really tacky looking suit shops in Holborn. I'm always amazed at how they can afford the rent, particularly as nobody has ever bought anything from them. They also tend to have a permanent closing down sale/be closed within a year and reinvented in the same place or a few doors down.

fan of Bruce Robinson version. great anti-establishment version

https://www.amazon.co.uk/They-All-Love-Jack-Busting/dp/006229637X

I was going to post this, it is ai interesting read. Amazon link. I also hear good stuff about Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem. .

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, this looks like a fairly architecturally interesting building.

I don't have a copy to hand, but you might find Pevsner has something to say about it; this would presumably be in the volume titled London 1: The City of London.

You can almost certainly find a copy in a larger Waterstones (I think the Piccadilly branch stocked the entire series last time I was in) to flick through if you don't want to buy the volume.

> I wasn't in the wrong

Do you want us to start a go fund me to help?

probably better to just sit in the Ten Bells with a copy of this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jack-Ripper-Casebook-Richard-Jones/dp/023300257X/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1549879574&sr=8-8&keywords=ripper+book

and then this

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hell-Alan-Moore/dp/0861661419

I would buy a guide book if I were you, something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rough-Guide-London-Guides/dp/0241306329/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1536658690&sr=8-3&keywords=london+guide+book+2018

The Prince of Wales in Highgate on a Tuesday night is quite well known for their quiz. There's even a book about it.

Yeah, I started reading very early, and started asking awkward questions even earlier than that. This was the book.

Relevant

Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest

https://www.amazon.co.uk/London-Novel-Edward-Rutherfurd/dp/0099551373

I massively recommend Curiocity: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Curiocity-Alternative-Z-Henry-Eliot/dp/0141980796/ if you feel you are bored of London.

Absolutely eye opening, and I'm rarely impressed by these sort of guidebooks.

His headline is the same as the one he's posting, he's not really fear mongering, just repeating but that does encourage fear mongering by others.

Fear mongering is when a potential threat is exaggerated without the audiences awareness. Pretty good book that explores fearmongering, quite brief as well,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Leaders-Lie-International-Politics/dp/0199975450/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1381811616&sr=8-3&keywords=mearsheimer

To fully understand the complexity and extent of the damage done to multiple organs over extensive periods by air pollution it is vital to know about the development of the capacities of the immune system, from foetus to grave (only 30% of heart attacks on the street make it to intervention). It has a memory all its own,and the scarring it causes is another sort of memory.

We owe the development of that understanding to Peter Medawar and the legions of researchers since.

A simple and crude overview can be found at:

http://noincineratorforcroydon.blogspot.co.uk/

A very recent textbook that does justice to the subject can be found at:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0323080588/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

From effects on the foetal immune sytem:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1399-3038.2010.01074.x/abstract

To the child’s

http://cmr.asm.org/content/23/1/74.full

And the adult heart

http://ens-newswire.com/2013/04/30/air-pollution-linked-to-hardening-of-the-arteries/

In the fullness of time this will be a commonplace, very unfortunately, it is not yet.The gap in knowledge left allows unscrupulous vested interests, and the governments they influence, to carry on exacting a horrendous price.

What connects diesel fumes, PAH’s , nanoparticles , cancer, asthma, heart disease, placental function, brain pathology and the immune system?
The AHR receptor.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091674998702696

http://intl.pharmrev.org/content/65/4/1148.short

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imm.12046/full

The AHR receptor alters immune cell DNA to change cell populations and properties.

http://intimm.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/09/intimm.dxt011.full

http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749%2810%2901175-9/abstract

Millions of individuals worldwide are afflicted with acute and chronic respiratory diseases, causing temporary and permanent disabilities and even death. Often these diseases occur as a result of altered immune responses. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), a ligand-activated transcription factor, acts as a regulator of mucosal barrier function and may influence immune responsiveness in the lungs through changes in gene expression, cell–cell adhesion, mucin production, and cytokine expression. This review updates the basic immunobiology of the AhR signaling pathway with regards to inflammatory lung diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and silicosis following data in rodent models and humans.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00281-013-0391-7

Recent epidemiological studies have demonstrated associations between air pollution and adverse effects that extend beyond respiratory and cardiovascular disease, including low birth weight, appendicitis, stroke, and neurological/neurobehavioural outcomes (e.g., neurodegenerative disease, cognitive decline, depression, and suicide). To gain insight into mechanisms underlying such effects, researchers mapped gene profiles in the lungs, heart, liver, kidney, spleen, cerebral hemisphere, and pituitary of rats immediately and 24h after a 4-h exposure by inhalation to particulate matter and ozone. Pollutant exposure provoked differential expression of genes involved in a number of pathways, including antioxidant response, xenobiotic metabolism, inflammatory signalling, and endothelial dysfunction. The experimental data are consistent with epidemiological associations of air pollutants with extrapulmonary health outcomes and suggest a mechanism through which such health effects may be induced.

http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/135/1/169.shor

No habit is 'too ingrained' to change, it just takes work.

I really reccommend you read this book it changed my life.

I'm not where I want to be yet but this book set me on the right path. It's accessible, even if you have a poor attention span & don't normally read.

Is it? Or do people just like arguing against a hated and undefinable foe which they find it easy to displace their own problems on to. Paris is no different and indeed much worse for example and has always been so; with people living in shoe boxes with no kitchens or such.

Turns out in a city with one of the world's highest GDP per capita, shit gets expensive.

People act like this is a new thing because suddenly it affects them. Unlike their parents, who were happy living in a nice place in Milton Keynes rather than having the unbearable desire they cannot assuage to live in shiny London with all the cool people. This then propagates the need and desire without any real intent and further missing the concept of change in any socioeconomic dynamic over time.

The problem isn't property prices, it is status anxiety. Which this advert demonstrates.

Further reading here