I have what I imagine is about an average amount of fear of crocodiles, heights and so on, but what I have always found much the most terrifying thing to imagine is being stuck in a narrow tunnel (and I am guessing it didn’t make the top 25, so[…]

HISTORY OF HISTORY-of-ART BODYSHOCKS (dept of genealogy) :
ok learning that robert quine wz the nephew of willard van orman quine is one thing, but being told (by Tom) that Buster (Buster comic fame) is the son of andy capp has turned my entire unde[…]

…may I interject with one of it’s pains? I believe that my kitchen is infested by weevils. Or some such vermin.
I’ve spent the evening alternately looking up the offending parties, comparing them to actual samples thereof, and empty[…]

The first of my generation has made it. While shopping with my mum today in Tesco, we/she bought Gwyneth Herbert‘s album. Gwyneth was in the year above me at uni. In fact, the first thing I ever ‘reviewed’ was a gig of hers. She was[…]

Some Thoughts on Britney and Paris as Socio-Cultural Bellwethers.
Two unrelated points that I think mean something but am unsure exactly what.
1) I have heard in the last 3 days, Britney Spears single Toxic three times, once at a strip club and twice[…]

OBIT: Jacques Derrida :( :( :(
yes i know JD wz actually saying that ‘grammatology’ *wasn’t* a science, and couldn’t be, absent the impossible ?transcendental signifier”, but argts abt what science is and isn’t ma[…]

the ineffectiveness of the transparently fake debate
the times is currently pushing itself as a forum for lively debate, in particular with a series of ads featuring Harry Hill and Sanjeev Bhaskar fake-arguing about “the best film of all time&[…]

I’ll be the first person to say that the world was not clamouring for Terminator 3. My reason oddly appears to be different to most, since I always thought that Terminator 2: Judgement Day was a bit – well – shit. Superfluous to the streaml[…]

For the politically inclined scientist in all of us:
A link to the “Bush and Kerry on the scientific issues” article that I wrote about a few weeks ago. It’s now available for free, no subsription required.
Counterbalancing this rep[…]

The school what banned conkers for fear on nut allergy its nuts itself (or conkers-bonkers). I won’t invoke PC craziness*, rather the idea that a rogue bit may fly through the air and cause anaphalactic shock is so statistically unlikely that i[…]