the world record for full-body immersion (esp.HEAD if applicable) in a vat of full fat soft cheese = six hours — GO DAVE!

URGENT UPDATE: joke-spoilin scientifickal AXIOMS of PBS restated to mollify the too-full-of-foopball hedz
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What is a one hit wonder? It can be an artist that never had another chart hit, an artist who never reached top 10 again, or an artist who just is, in the nation’s perception, a one hit wonder. In Channel 4’s ’50 Greatest One Hit Wo[…]

ok so beyond-the-veil action continues apace…
i. the most recent agency carer — sensible by day, “sensitive” by night, w.tall tales akimbo — detected a “presence” (ie the kid’s room door, which doesn&#[…]

Note, despite the photo on the BBC Science News Website, nowhere in this article regarding making legumes less gassy do they mention making the UK Baked Bean less fart-promoting.[…]

Schroedinger’s Deal Or No Deal.
Noel Edmonds was the perfect choice as host for this game show, as he is also in a simultaneous state of death and life. We all remember him as the failed DJ turned family entertainer who killed people. But yet h[…]

Video of a working model with spoilers. (Digg:ProvBScie as BBC News:FT generally, obv)[…]

I’m just about to finish “The Way We Think” by Fauconnier/Turner and i can’t avoid the feeling that it feels like a composite of books by continental philosophers that i have read but this time CORRECTLY TRANSLATED. In common […]

The BBC’s page on football and science. A shameless attempt to try and make the sentence “if you like football, you’ll LOVE SCIENCE” really work. However I particularly the bit on referees:
A referee’s perspective
Watchi[…]

Ah, Luddite: such a useful phrase, so divorced from its origins. Writing the previous piece I found myself using Luddite again with only a sketchy knowledge of its real meaning. Part of me sensed that the anti-technological or technophobia aspect did[…]

Lighting to be revolutionised by organic light-emitting-diodes. Not only will these new lights be flat and heatless, thus able to place on almost anything, but the light will be “more natural” and potentially 100% energy efficient. Sounds[…]