Scientists who have nothing better to do with their time have invented a teenager deterent for curmudgeonly old folks. It works by emitting an unpleasant high pitched whining noise that only teenagers and dogs can hear. (Sounds like someone playing H[…]

*enters tomb-like dust-covered control room, blows cobwebs off panels etc*
ok on sat even i put my card into a cashpoint to get money out
i. as the card went in the screen changed from usual user-friendly promo nonsense (it wz the HALIFAX so it fea[…]

“Scientists” have discovered a “lost world” in the jungles of “Indonesia” – according to the “BBC Website”.
“It’s as close to the “Garden of Eden” as you’re going to[…]

She may or may not be a Doctor, and it may or may not be in a science, but on telly, does that really matter? She knows what’s what and that’s good enough. Anyway, there have been some great little bits in this short series, though there […]

I run elections, and the buzzword in my election field is e-voting. Why? Well its a pain in the arse counting pieces of paper for one. Secondly, voting is traditionally going down so the mantra goes, anything which makes voting easier is a good thing[…]

SOFIA — Bulgarian customs stopped a 75-ton shipment of beef meat from Ireland that may have been frozen since 1984, local media reported on Monday.
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When we’ve got our own alien lifeforms right here on Earth? Two enormous lakes have been discovered under the ice sheet that covers Antarctica. Since they were formed as a result of tectonic action rather than being scooped out by glaciers, the[…]

imagine you have had many x ppl round one nice eve and served food and out the leftovers in the fridge in tupperware boxes and then went off to stay w.relatives for ten days at WOBs and came back and forgot abt the ANCIENT MUMMIFIED JELLY AND CREAM s[…]

One can imagine some sort of Gallic CSI wasting hundreds of man-hours on this case: namely that of a murdered woman that they could not identify because it turns out the body was 500 years older than first imagined. Why they did not cut through her l[…]

Those of us whose bodies were hard-wired in the 1970’s often accidentally slip into the trap of repeating past behaviour. Habit, I believe the behaviourists call this. Anyway, one of my worst habits is typing www.freakytrigger.com, the poor los[…]