the mystery of the unicorn’s horn has just begun apparently. well, narwhal, actually. just read it![…]

I’ve been trying to help a friend find the name for using a placeholder subject in a sentence. “It’s three o clock”, “There’s food on the table” etc. OED not an astonishing amount of use, but does classify th[…]

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“and the lion shall lie down with the lamb, and the lamb shall kick the lion’s butt“[…]

the office text-scanner was jus now caught helpfully changing the adjective “anti-scientific” into “anti-semitic”, a statement of moral equivalence that presumably reflects its hard-wired beliefs – viz that not knowing m[…]

Catholic Church to bin Limbo: OK, this sort of nonsense is diametrically opposed to science, you might think. But actually the establishment of Limbo in the 13th century seems to me a reasonable bit of scientific thinking. You have a known fact (&#82[…]

PROVEN BY SCIENCE.
Not really much to say about this stirling piece of research which manages to not only prove the existence of beer goggles, but do so by inventing a spurious scale wherein you can be proved to be using beer goggles EVEN IF YOU HAVE[…]

Cloning scandal
I am somewhat disappointed in Professor Hwang Woo-Suk, even beyond the ethical considerations a disgraced cloning genius should not be saying:
“I am very sorry that I have to tell the public words that are too shameful and horri[…]

or WATCH. In particular their annual list of the their top ten most dangerous toys. The list includes some boring choking hazards plus things which look and are designed as weapons which are being used as weapons.
In particular : Thing Hands (used to[…]

Alan’s post a few below about the shenanigans on ILx just go to show that use of computers can wind you up. Now in a clever reversal of this trend for the purposes of a PBS piece, the UN have unveiled a computer you can wind up back. Here Nicky[…]