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[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARY THINGS
No.21: Heights
Not everyone is scared of heights. I wasn’t. I remember scampering about on some scaffolding at the top of Chartres Cathedral on a school trip: I didn’t play chicken like some of the other[…]

I like Brutalist architecture. I like the colour of rained-on concrete and I love big, blocky geometricality. I’m always attracted to creative movements which name themselves by reclaiming the insults which defined them in the first place. Am I[…]

Euler and Maxwell tied at 1st place
Yes, yes, another Proven by Science story courtesy of BBC news. A mix of equations both mathematical and physical-phenomenal, voted for by Physics World. That list in full.
I’m going to throw in some controve[…]

proof that bicycle-wielding action painter j.pollock = big yank puff
asger jorn and pals (and dog) make a clay mural[…]

Mike Basset England Manager was not what you might called a sophisticated satire. The set-up being that pretty awful Norwich City manager Bassett becomes surprise pick for England manager when no-one else wanted to do the job. That much was true in 2[…]

The other day I went to a gallery and it was the National Gallery and it had pictures and they were dead good and there was a horsey.[…]