Brian May and Patrick Moore team up in the interests of SPACE SCIENCE!
Be sure to plug your headphones in and click on the “Bang Animation” link at the side. FLASH! Aaaa-aaaah![…]

While shopping this past weekend my eyes were drawn to this book called “Pie”. Ready for the xmo buying season, the publishers have spent their publicity cash getting it in those prime places in the bookshop, and the book strikingly LOOKS[…]

“they taste like bacon”
(ok this story is irresistable obv BUT i. it only licked a reporter’s hand and ii. in taste terms as much as any, prosciutto is NOT actually bacon)
(also: the word prosciutto derives from the Latin perexsuc[…]

AIM: To replicate the legendary LONG EGG, of GALA PIE fame
APPARATUS: many eggs (as per), tall pan, foil, cylindrical “formers”, knife, wooden skewer
INITIAL COMMENTS: the basic principle here is bound to be v close to the realactual meth[…]

AIM: To replicate the legendary LONG EGG, of GALA PIE fame
APPARATUS: many eggs (as per usual)* — plus also beef gelatin, pan, disposable cylindrical container (i used the bottom half of an EVIAN bottle), kitchen scissors, kitchen knife
INITIAL[…]

One of the more eyebrow-raising branding successes of the year has been SecondLife, the “real world” massively multiplayer online ‘game’ (or ‘environment’ maybe) which has been getting regular press – marketi[…]

I had noticed over the last few months that there had been an increase in both the amount and the variety of non-english (or “Uxbridge” [0]) Diet Coke that was making its way into the sandwich shops I frequent around the Covent Garden are[…]

I don’t know the origin of this Google Video, twelve minutes of marble heavy Heath Robinsonesque devices. I do know that it is wonderfully soothing to watch and the (let’s say its Japanese) little Japanese tune at the end of every success[…]

Science course “more suited to pub” – a debate that strikes pretty close to Proven By Science’s original aims, this. (Perhaps “pub science” will birth “punk science” just as pub rock etc.) I think the […]

Steven Levy on the iPod shuffle (Guardian article). Scientists have know for a long time that the folk perception of randomness and statistics is skew in many different dimensions of wrong, but it takes the bloody iPod to get this fact into mainstrea[…]