The Map Room: this is the kind of thing that makes people love the Interweb. The Map Room is “a blog about maps” and lives precisely up to the title – a feast of map-related links of every imaginable kind. Three links in a row illus[…]

Thanks to my job I’ve had some heavy-duty exposure to the Manchester United marketing machine recently – a John Simm-voiced video profile of their youth academy focusing specifically on skills development.
It was rich with the kind of d[…]

WALKERS SENSATIONS: I was upbraided for not including Walkers Sensations in my very-brief history of crisps. I had a slight distrust of these crisps: they are unquestionably a premium brand, and in my experience premium brands of entirely non-premium[…]

ANNALS OF EXPERIMENTAL DOMESTIC SCIENCE: it is SO science, i cd have i. discovered marvels that brought me fame and wealth, ii. burnt and/or poisoned myself!![…]

cheese that’s good to fry
The experiment: finding which cheeses are good if you fry them. I used my big giant skillet because I like it best of all the pans in the world. The cheeses tested so far are:
i. red leicester
ii. mature cheddar
iii. […]

DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE! ‘Electroclash’
“First, the system should contain three (3) electrodes. The head should be fitted with a tightly fitting cap containing an electrode with a saline moistened sponge. It is through this electrode […]

To boil or bake – that is the question with ham. The correct answer is probably to do a bit of both. The point of boiling a ham it seems to me is not so much that it is the optimal cooking method (though it does leave a nicely moist joint if do[…]

Derren Brown plays Russian Roulette was a little overblown. Unsurprisingly really, considering the act of playing Russian Roulette is a pretty quick one. Instead we got an hour of Mr Brown trying to find the the weakest willed man in the country. If […]

Hey you, SUV driver! Fed up with being persecuted because your gas-gobbling family tank is causing ice caps to melt every time you drive the kids to school? Maybe you’re a frequent flyer worried about the millions of tonnes of CO2 pumped into t[…]

So, OK, why does Freaky Trigger suddenly have a science blog? If you’re looking for enlightenment, read It’s Science, Geeta’s excellent introductory piece and the first article for FT’s October issue to go up. (Others will fol[…]