Of course a REAL mathematician could tell what made this number special just by looking at it[…]

Omigod it can’t be it is it’s ___________!!! On the C4 doc just now finishing abt some WW2 commando raid, complete with mined ship smashing into a German dry-dock in the Loire, the old fellow with a slightly florid nose was naggingly fami[…]

Split screen has been around for years but when did it stop being arty-n-clever and just become part of the routine grammar of the TV documentary? It was used in BBC2’s The Week that Shook The World: The Last Days of Hitler and it was used in t[…]

What are the limits of dramatic license when editing together yr footage in a documentary abt animals? In Natural World (Sunday 30 November, 6.25pm BBC2), “Monkey Prince” told the glum tale of Bobo, an existentially tormented fellow with […]

(Topologically speaking Hopkins is wrong of course: any closed fence on the surface of a genus zero object surrounds the regions “inside” and “outside” the fence.)[…]

WHEN BRANES COLLIDE!
OK so the Big Bang maybe happened when two M-Branes banged into one another: and there’s another brane-bang on the way some time soon maybe. And at CERN currently they’re building a particle-accelerator big enough th[…]

The mysteries of Scotch Steak House remain virgo intacta: my friend and I arrived, fully intending to take whatever this mysterious chain dished out, at the one in the Strand. It was, of course, entirely empty – except for one very tiny little […]

Full Four-Organ Breakfast (defined for Felicity): full english breakfast – bacon, eggs, mushrooms, tomatos, beans, toast or fried bread – PLUS kidneys, black pudding and sausage. How this works: kidneys = obv (organ 1). Sausage = nose and[…]

From Tomorrow’s World‘s 1975 report on Kraftwerk and ‘Autobahn’ (rebroadcast on Top of the Pops 2): “Last year they dispensed with the last conventional instrument, the violin. Next year they hope to get rid of the keybo[…]

It’s almost certainly just over-excitement, but here I am at last eating at one of those Japanese sushi-snack bars where the food goes past you on a little conveyor belt (Kulu Kulu on Brewer Street). It’s like watching Grand Prix – […]