United Kingdom

Thank you so much for all the great questions back in February.

My new book How Innovation Works just came out Tuesday, so I'd love to tell stories about innovation today--I believe it's a bottom up process that cannot be predicted, and flourishes in freedom--but you're free to ask me about anything else as well, including the 2011 film Rampart. My marketing helper tells me you love that movie?

I’m also known for my TED talk “When ideas have sex” which has been viewed several million times, my other seven books on science and politics/economics, writing for The Times and The Wall Street Journal, editing at The Economist, and perhaps most importantly my Ph.D thesis on bird behaviour!

I'll be back around 12:15pm ET / 1715 BST to ask questions for at least an hour, and if it's OK, will PM a couple of you about helping me to get rid of these last two signed copies of the new book I have left.

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I'm looking to move to Latin or South America eventually. I'm not sure if it'd be permanent or I'd travel around multiple countries in those areas. Either way if anyone could help me know the visas available in those countries, anyone who has experience via travelling/moving there or is in a resident there it'd be useful. I understand a lot of visas depend on jobs, so for additional information I'd be a freelancer or work remotely. If any further information is required or wish to help me feel free to message me or comment below, thank you for reading.

Queen Elizabeth I was the Queen of England. Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of the UK—among many other places—but Queen of England is not among her titles.

King James VI & I of Scotland and England was not considered King James VI of England just because there were prior Scottish kings names James.

Got any fun facts that will blow my mind or give me a chortle? None of that "Steve Buscemi was a fire engine during WWI" kinda bollocks that gets posted to the front page every week, something decent you've got hidden up your sleeve.

As always, please remember the house rules or die etc.

Here are some of mine:

• Nowhere in the UK is more than 75 miles from the sea.

• Despite being an absolute globetrotter, the Queen has never had a passport.

• England has had many capitals over the past 2,000 years but the strangest one was Chelmsford, which became the capital for 6 days in 1381 due to riots in London.

I've recently dived head first into ancient monuments, in my search for easy to find videos of these sites I hit a roadblock. So I decided to create it myself.

I've made a video about Bryn Celli Ddu, a burial mound on the Island of Anglesey in Wales.

I spoke about the history of Wales, the area and the history of the monument. We looked at previous excavations and restoration of the monument.

The area around the monument is still being researched, hopefully in the future I can do a follow-up video with new evidence and findings.

I've used archaeological surveys and papers as my sources.

Join me in uncovering all that we can about our stone age past!

https://youtu.be/rH_HO8c5Zq8

Remember lads, if Drew McIntyre Wins at wrestlemania then he is British.

If he loses he is Scottish.

After the uprisings of 1850, Karl Marx agrees to leave the continent but officials say that London is too close and so moves to the even more free press of the United States.

It's something I heard once. Apparently the United Kingdom is more right wing politically, economically and socially than most of developed Europe when it comes to the welfare state, sexuality and the role of government.

Part of this seems to be because of the events of post-WW2 where the UK didn't have as much destruction or have to rebuild as much making socialist policies less appealing. But this does nothing to explain the: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_model

I don't know how to say kingdom or united in tokipona, I am asking because I am making a few logos which happen to include "the united kingdom of kirbies".

I was absolutely sick of seeing denialism and British exceptionalism flood the UK subreddit when people tried to show solidarity towards Americans and make sure we don't sleep walk into the same situation over here. I noticed so many adamant people stating there has never been any racism in the UK that I felt it important to highlight the fact it has always been prevalent in a particular section of the population.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/gvn008/in_the_1980s_the_conservative_party_student_wing/

I then noticed the guy has a string of other threads he has deleted that have tried to help raise awareness of British racism and keep people in the right mind to combat it so we don't fall so low again.

Is anyone else noticing a trend of alt-right authoritarian types gaining moderator status on very large British public forums? It's impossible to have prop