I've never understood why people pay so much money to live in studio flats in crap areas of a city. We live out in Kent and including a drive to the train station and buying the ticket can be in central London in 40 minutes. That gets us an £1100 mortgage payment on a 4 bed house surrounded by farmland. Sometimes when we meet friends who live in London for dinner it takes them longer to get to the restaurant than it does us.

I think many younger people without families are not interested in being surrounded by farmland.

People have been volunteering their time and they are still raising £200,000 to get the table completed.

Looks very promising. There was some doubt about interferons as they can also help COVID to get into the body but some new research from the University of Southampton has cleared up that there are two kinds of the ACE2 receptor.

I had only heard of Enchroma but then stumbled across and bought some Pilestone glasses last month. I think they cost me around £120 here in the UK.

At first I put them on and they just made everything look tinged with pink so removed them after a minute or two. Then I noticed the instructions. I had assumed glasses didn't need instructions but all it said was to leave them on for at least 15 minutes for your eyes to adjust.

My eyes did 'adjust' after a few minutes more and while it wasn't something that would make me cry like the viral videos, there was definitely an emotional reaction. I wore them on a walk through the countryside and the vivid colours of certain flowers did make me stop and I found I couldn't stop grinning.

I did find that reds look a bit orange - things like the Royal Mail van which is certainly red appeared quite bright and what I would previously have called orange. Who knows if that's wrong or right though? It's hard to know how everyone else sees things.

I don't wear the glasses day-to-day but I do take them with me if we are going somewhere picturesque.

The reaction of ‘grinning’ you describe was the same for me when my sense of smell was fixed surgically and began working properly some years ago.

For comparison, you could have someone who isn't colourblind wear the glasses for a bit, and ask them if the reds appear orange to them.

In the UK we have Yodel, which is essentially 'contracted amateurs' delivering in their own vehicles.

There must be some form of this still in practice in the UK, though maybe it doesn't do it while in motion.

I frequently have to get into a particular set of carriages on my journey home from central London, as the train divides en route.

I believe that's a dividing train: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividing_train

Was strangely fun answering these. Can't wait to chart some of this data on http://chartblocks.com

Yeah I was starting to design some visualization for it in my head!

We wouldn't want to miss out on a great speaker because they couldn't afford to get to and stay in London.

We just started making one of these for internal use - will probably use this instead now.