The VR train experience is helping psychologists get better insight into the paranoid brain, since they get to see first-hand, in a controlled environment, how people react to supposedly ambiguous situations. The simulator, in conjunction with counseling, may ultimately be used to treat people with paranoid thoughts.

Check out a video of the virtual tube along with plenty of quotes from paranoid V-tube passengers who are ready to finger their faux tube-mates for fiendishness, like,

"There's something dodgy about one guy. Like he was about to do something -- assault someone, plant a bomb, say something not nice to me, be aggressive."

It seems we now also know who is responding to all those new anti-terrorist ads.

Image courtesy of Adi Setiawan's Flickrstream

Today it seems to be Harriet Harman?s turn for a ribbing. Her scandalous action? A walk around Peckham/Camberwell sporting a stab-proof vest. Ah, but this dame is no Jacqui Smith, she of the chauffeur-driven kebab. Ms. Harman was on the beat with bobby, talking about improved community policing and no doubt uttering ministerial words of encouragement. Her donning of the offending garment merely reflected what her escorts were wearing, and whilst she doesn?t exactly look like one of the boys, she certainly doesn?t come over as a pampered political poodle.

Our moles in Peckham can report that the Labour Deputy Leader does in fact mix with the hoi polloi on a fairly regular basis. She does pop up in the hood, unescorted and unvested, and seems genuinely fond of and concerned about her inner city constituency.

She is of course no goody-two-shoes, but this Londonista reckons that just for today the daggers should be drawn elsewhere.

Not-quite-what-we-were-looking-for picture from Andrew Brown?s flickr stream.

Today marks the case of March literally going out like a lamb. Well, a ewe, if we?re going to split, uh, wool here.

Croydon?s Happy Valley Park will host 20 Herdwick and Jacob ewes over the next three months. The sheep will dutifully graze the chalky grassland in one of Britain?s most diverse wildlife habitats. You know, how it used to be done before lawn-mowers sputtered across the nation every Sunday afternoon.

For the past five years, Happy Valley has been managing its grassland by bringing in the ewes and allowing them to happily chomp away. It?s proven quite popular with visitors, and adds a lovely bit of Austenian romanticism to the park, which counts its wildflower habitat as the richest in Britain. We can see it now: a jodhpur-clad Mr. Darcy (or, perhaps, better? Colin Firth) striding through a cluster of ewes armed with a bouquet of?right, stopping now.

by Kira Hesser

Image by farmfoto courtesy of the Creative Commons Licence.

"Eat with the elite." That?s what the folks behind the upcoming London Restaurant Week want us to do from the 14th of April through the 27th (which would actually make it more like London Restaurant Weeks but whatever). Snooty catch phrases and poor calendar reading skills aside, London Restaurant Week sounds like a brilliant opportunity to dine at many of London?s most celebrated eateries for cheap. During this foodie fortnight (can Londonist trademark that?) around 100 restaurants, including ten Michelin starred joints, will offer two course lunches from £15 and three course dinners from £25. Nice. Other fancy schmancy restaurants on the list include the exotic ?world on your plate? Archipelago, with its house specialty crocodile fillets, fusion Chino-Latino wonders Asia de Cuba and all sorts of other establishments which invariably define themselves as chic and modern. Booking for LWR started yesterday, visit the Lastminute.com sponsored webpage for more details. Bon appetite, scumbags.

Photography courtesy of D. de la Peña (norton frantic) via the Londonist pool on Flickr.

While we're probing your Londonist knowledge and preferences in the reader survey, we're also wanting to test your general London knowledge in a special pub quiz this Thursday. We will be the question setting team for one of the rounds in a jolly knees-up at the Museum of London that sounds like quite a night out.

In The Ultimate London Pub Quiz, competition is high and positively encouraged: in traditional pub quiz structure there's a London music round, a Beat the Curator round where London history trivia fans will be pitched against museum staff, an arts and crafts round for the London-inspired artists among us and the present day London round as set by us.

Guest quiz masters for each round include Jimmy Jukes, the Pearly King of Camberwell, Museum experts and John Hegley. Also set up for the night is a 'strange but true' corner showing off weird and wonderful items from the Museum of London stores. Thinking caps on, we'll see you there from 6pm onwards - latecomers will still be welcome, and there's a bar in the foyer so there's a full complement of pub quiz effects on offer.

If the quiz isn't quite your sort of thing, the rest of the Museum will be open late so you can check out the special exhibitions in particular the Weather Permitting: London?s Changing Climate display.

The Ultimate London Pub Quiz at Museum of London, Thursday 3 April from 6pm . For more details, go to the Museum of London website here

How come there are ten? Why didn?t you enter your mates? Well, in addition to securing 330 signatures ? a stretch of anyone?s Facebook ? candidates needed to stump up a £10,000 deposit, repayable on a return of 5% of the vote.

The candidates, in alphabetical order:

Richard Barnbrook - British National Party
Gerard Batten - UK Independence Party
Sian Berry - Green Party
Alan Craig - Christian Peoples Alliance and Christian Party
Lindsey German - Left List
Boris Johnson - Conservative Party
Ken Livingstone - Labour Party
Winston McKenzie - Independent
Matt O'Connor - English Democrats
Brian Paddick - Liberal Democrats

By Noel Titheradge

Image courtesy of 604plonker's Flickrstream.