He suggests studying the role of violence through history instead or analysing why the knife-carrying Baroque painter Caravaggio is still valued as an artist despite his frequent brawling.

BBC: School knife crime 'overplayed'

An international research programme that helps to set up regional networks for analysing hydrological data through the exchange of data, knowledge and techniques at the regional level.

UNESCO: International Hydrological Programme (IHP)

Several teams of scientists trying to measure how much methane is actually being released have reported seeing vast bubbles coming up through the water - although analysing how much this matters is complicated by the absence of similar measurements from previous decades.

BBC: Climate 'tech fixes' urged for Arctic methane

So what's happened since last week's post, flagging up and analysing the contents of documents obtained through subterfuge from the leading US climate sceptic lobby group?

BBC: Confessions of a climate gate-opener

On Wednesday the state's Consumer Affairs Minister, Johannes Remmel, said that "after analysing the data we have learned that through a middleman in Luxembourg, a significant amount of goods has been shipped to Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia, and those goods are suspected, and I repeat only suspected, to have not been properly labelled".

BBC: minced beef - file pic