There's all sorts of information available online, some of it good; most of it useless. Here, I shall link to things I've found interesting, and probably build up a picture on certain topics as more links are added. Please send me anything that you've found particularly interesting. For now, these will be eclectic and unsorted.

• Aim to sleep for Seven and Half hours a night
• Food shortages may lie ahead
• We take our food for granted
• We still don't understand wild animals
• Psychology is possible because we're all the same. It's useful because we're all different
• You're getting old and someday you will die
• A photographer is not just a person who photographs
• Tiny things can have dramatic effects on how we act
• Secrets are difficult to keep
• How to see the 700 year old Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London for free
• Prime lenses are cheaper and sharper
• The United States are bankrupt
• Cyberwarfare is an increasing threat
• Ireland is a mess, and the people aren't making as much fuss as the Greeks
• Free mass information is a game-changer
• The Universe is beautiful
• Kew Gardens, London once had an 'Eco Village' for neighbours - Photographs
• We are sublimely dwarfed by the Universe
• Our will to survive is tremendous
• Polar bears are jolly curious beasts
• There are flowers that bloom once every 3000 years
• Mark Knopfler's song, Hill Farmer's Blues, is fantastic
• But his ode to an entrepreneur, Boom, Like That, is even better
• A whole world exists beneath the city's public face
• * The ten most revealing psychology experiments raise important questions
• China will overtake the US because...
• The modern panopticon is thoroughly entrenched
• Camouflage can be highly effective
• A man parachuted from 10,000ft without knowing what would happen
• Steve Jobs can say a thing or two about Living life
• China is a land of opportunity
• Despite being irrational, hauntings can be scary
• Monkeys do not like to be cheated
• Bilderberg parties have all the right people
• We have too many things
• Mobile is the next boom industry
• The point of music isn't its end, it's to dance; the same can be said about life

Also, some favourite quotations...

'Man hath weav'd out a net, and this net throwne Upon the Heavens, and now they are his owne.' - John Donne

'The important thing isn't how long you live, but how well you live.' - Seneca

'Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies for instance.' - John Ruskin

'What’s bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.' - E. Cobham Brewer

'Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.' - Horace

'Every artist was first an amateur.' - R.Emerson

'The earth has music for those who listen.' - William Shakespeare

'Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.' - Leo Tolstoy

'Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.' - Rumi

'The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.' - Marcel Proust

'If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.' - Charlie Parker

'The more law and order are made prominent, the more robbers and thieves there will be' - Lao Tzu

'He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.' - Horace

'An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.' - Plutarch

'Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself'. - Nietzsche

'At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.' - Lao Tzu

'What more can a person gain in life than that God/Nature reveals himself to him?' - Goethe

'Knowing when enough is enough is always enough' - Lao Tzu

'And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.' - William Shakespeare

'If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.' Alexander the Great

'The People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses' - Juvenal

'Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!' - Goethe