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Still the best superhero comic on the shelves at the moment, Runaways is now up to #11 of the latest series, and (impressively, considering ...

The BBC make you create an account if you want to listen to the radio online now, which I think is quite shocking. They'll be making me ...

Or at least Novak Djokovic and the French football team are. And for that matter, so is John Graham, who's just won the US Memory Champi...

I'm officially going to Seoul in August, which is really extremely cool. I've even resolved to do some proper practice, although tha...

One thing I didn't mention yesterday about our room in the castle keep, was that it's full of swords and shields, various torture de...

It's the othello nationals, in the scenic location of the confusingly-named Newcastle Castle. Which is, of course, a very old castle. ...

What I really want from the World Cup is for England to beat Brazil in the final, because that would just be really cool. So it would make m...

Newcastle, this weekend! For the national othello championship! The nationals are always cleverly arranged so that they start after lunch on...

Should I go to Korea in August? I think I should, actually - there's a memory competition in Seoul on August 25-26, and I like the idea ...

In honour of 100 years of women's suffrage, here's just one of the many brilliant treasures you can find if you read through the arc...

If you type my name into Google, one of the searches it suggests is "ben pridmore net worth". As in, somebody has tried to search ...

Remember all the UK-based TV-wrestling excitement a year and a half ago, around new year 2017? ITV ran a really cool World of Sport Wrestlin...

It really doesn't feel like twenty years since Fat Les, but perhaps that just shows how old I'm getting. I might have to announce...

Just over ten years ago, we had a memorable memory competition in the Wolfson Seminar Room North at Trinity College, Cambridge. You can read...

He's today's google doodle, because it's his 95th birthday, apparently (though he died in 1994). We had to read a book of his sh...

In many ways, I am Groot. By which I mean, I'm somebody who refrained from watching Marvel movies, on the grounds that superhero movies ...

That most famous of (former) British othello players, Aubrey, has apparently published a paper proving that the answer to the Hadwiger-Nels...

May is the coolest month, if you like playing on Memory League ! If you play at least three games (against an opponent or in training) on at...

It's been nothing but memory-talk here on the blog for the last couple of weeks, so let's move to the physical side of things - WWE ...

While watching the action from Gothenburg on Sunday, I entertained myself by creating a spreadsheet to quickly calculate IAM levels when you...