The Birds, The Bees, and…?: “When prairie voles have sex, two hormones called oxytocin and vasopressin are released. If the release of these hormones is blocked, prairie-voles’ sex becomes a fleeting affair, like that normally enjo[…]

More interesting stuff from Woebot on file-sharing ethics. I’ve commented in the archives on what Matt’s saying, but I thought I’d point to it here because it crystallised an uneasiness I’ve had about PopNose’s rapid suc[…]

wive$watch:
if you had any gumption you switched over to bbc2[…]

So last night in Hustle the gang organised a complex art scam which involved them getting a master forger to invent a new Mondrian which they could pass off as the real thing briefly to a sharp tongued art expert. To do this they had to steal an actu[…]

All Bar One Rox ur all etc
I was about to post this when Tom’s original Firkin comment appeared and then cz I’d got so bolshy defending Pret against the ruralpolitans sane universe I hung fire, at least to read properly where the argument[…]

The conversation about pub chains got me thinking about when a chain is not a chain? Or at least do we consider Sam Smiths pubs to be a chain? We talk about them as if they are, and there are definite aspects of their pubs with which one can happily […]

I am not much of a breakfast person but my boyfriend urged me to take up this habit. So I relented. Happily. Breakfast this morning consisted of muesli, extra raisins, dried banana, dried apricots, dried apple rings – yes, yes, I love dried fru[…]

Q: What do 76 blowjobs look like?
A: A Slowdive EP cover.
Jason Salavon deals in the art of the average – taking a series of images (photos or film stills) and rendering them composite. The results point up the use and futility of the notion of[…]

Almost two years ago, publog supremo mr barang and I managed to have a conversation that came, somehow, to the conclusion that MARMITE CHICKEN would be a marvellous thing. In our world this was: 1. Take a whole chicken 2. Slather it in marmite 3. R[…]

Consciousness and quantum physics
There are very few more interesting and dfficult subjects than the nature of mind and consciousness. It doesn’t seem to resemble anything else in the universe. What is it? What is it made of? Is it distinct fro[…]