Firefox achieves 10 percent market share but the UK is weighing this %age down badly, as it’s 5% in UK, but 14% in US. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU UK PEOPLE. Just STOP using blimmin Internet Explorer. Do it NOW. there is no excuse, it is an OLD old[…]

Researchers have proven something that anyone who grew up watching Bagpuss could have told you years ago. Mice Sing. They also play a marvelous mechanical organ, and fix things, mend things and polish them up, up, up. Alas the report only has the lov[…]

Regular readers of Freaky Trigger will know that we’re sceptical about blaming all kinds of ills on ‘marketing’, because most marketers are rubbish bunglers and the whole thing tends to be based on very shaky statistics and assumpti[…]

My fantastic book on stage magic, Hiding The Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer, is full of great tales but my favourite** is the story of how Robert-Houdin used SCIENCE to prevent a rebellion in a French colony by adapting one of his magic tricks. He put a […]

So if it wasn’t God (due to logical fallacy) or Alieums (due to unlikeliness and racking of book in UFOlogy sections of bookshop) who really built the moon. Get this: WE DID! B-b-b-but surely we would remember. A moon isn’t just something[…]

in order to remind the one who wz in northern exposure that armed gangs when they know they’re under observation may try and change their behaviour, the sweaty maths-nerdy one invoked a somewhat embroadened HEISENBERG’S UNCERTAINTY PRINCI[…]

You wait for years for two stories which are microscopically, tangentially related to Captain America, and then two pop up in one day. Secret Origin of Captain America imitates life. Or fdeep frozen death at least.[…]

Man invents perfect soldier maker. And before you lily livered pacifists* start moaning about the futility of war and the evils of genetically altered super-soldiers hold up there. Mike Minton is no one man SHEILD, and we won’t be getting blue […]

At the weekend a number of Freaky Trigger writers went to the SCIENCE OF ALIENS exhibition at the Science Museum. Space prevents a full account of the exhibition (summary: fun but pricey), however the final room, describing our attempts to contact th[…]

… but this made me larf (it reminded me of me and ethanon AIM!)
(in PBS bcz of technology like)[…]