Making your pets work for you.[…]

Written by Louise Dann, a real actual scientist
Use by dates and the science behind them.
This actually isn’t scientific so much as a personal rant about injustices done to food in the name of health and safety. Having a quick squizz at the Foo[…]

I AM TOM CRUISE (OR POSSIBLY BRYAN BROWN).
For the first time in about ten years I went to a party, and I made a mystery cocktail. I actually made three. In bucket quantities. This was something which as an entertainment’s rep at college I use[…]

Just a quick note to vent my spleen.
THERE ARE NO KIDS IN THUNDERBIRDS.
You see there were so many things wrong with doing a Thurderbirds movie that it is physically impossible for it to be good. After all the source material is tedious supermarionat[…]

‘If…’ man in ‘Scottish’ claims. No doubt the Bern film festival claims Jean-Luc Godard as Switzerland’s own, but jeez…[…]

political commentators = rubbish reviewers of films #3485
Monbiot’s concluding sentence: “When a scruffy comedian from Michigan can bring us closer to the truth than the BBC, it’s time for a serious examination of why news has beco[…]

How to popularise botany?: two crass routes spring to mind. The first is FLESH-EATING PLANTS. The second is DRUGS. Neither is open to a family attraction like The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Well, OK, you could try for the flesh-eating plants thing[…]

BISCUITS FOR CHEESE: apparently in some reaches of the world, it is not very acceptable just to bite off big chunks of cheese from the block (FULES do they not KNOW the extra saliva = taste sensation extraordinaire?!), and therefore they invest in on[…]

Timewyrm: Genesys – John Peel (7/10)
  (TARDIS crew: 7th, Ace; VILLIAN: The Timewyrm n’e Ishtar n’e Qataka)
Timewyrm: Exodus – Terrance Dicks (7/10)
  (TARDIS crew: 7th, Ace; VILLIAN: The Timewyrm, Hitler)
Virgin Books dec[…]

A Brief Fumetti Fantasy Based On Today’s In-Store Listening[…]