NME Originals: The Rolling Stones nicely bundles up NME and Melody Maker cuttings from the 60s. Nothing too heavy – no Mars Bars, no murder – but enough froth for a month of idle breakfast-time pondering of simpler times spent scouring th[…]

The reference to Thai Sweet Chilli got me thinking about my favourite ever instant noodle dood. I’ve always been a fan of the Pot Noodle; it conjures up memories of playing text-adventure games in my early teenage years when I’d eat about[…]

APPARATUS
1 bear, 1 tree, 1 trampoline, 1 TV camera and stopwatch
METHOD
We let the bear climb up into the tree and then we put the trampoline under the tree and then my friend Simon shot him with a tranquilizer dart and I filmed it for the telly.
RE[…]

SENSATIONS WATCH: Always first to sell out round our way = Thai Sweet Chilli.[…]

There’s a point at which I can’t believe this is ever going to work. Two tins of what can only be described as brown sludge have been in the oven for the exact time specified in the recipe. I can’t see them actually bubbling and spi[…]

The earth spins faster in the middle than it does at the poles, where (in the limit) it doesn’t move at all. If a plane in the northern hemisphere is flying south, the earth’s movement from right to left beneath it will become faster as t[…]

Blink and you miss it commentary on Blaine from the back of yesterday’s Guardian, by Jerry Sadowitz. Sounds like a convincing debunk to me — but what do I know? — I think all magicians are paid to lie to us, like politicians. Which […]

Top Of The Pops – The View From The Floor: October’s dripfeed of FT articles continues with this piece by Steve Mannion who brutally crushed the dreams of a million schoolchildren by getting a place in the Top Of The Pops audience. What d[…]

DRINK IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE: go on, it’s an experiment you can do in the pub![…]

I drank far too much in the Horse and Groom last Wednesday, and when I went to bed the room was gently spinning around me. I noticed that it was spinning anticlockwise, and I wondered if I could make it go the other way; for a while I thought I could[…]