I want my baby back.
But what if Black isn’t Black? You probably don’t get your baby.
Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the blackest black there is. SUPERBLACK. How black is this black? Very. It is 2% blacker than Black Paint, and […]

GOSH WOW massive great planet found on edge…of…solar…syzzzzzzzzz…
Even the BBC, keen sponsor of new planets (“Quaoar Blimey!”) is struggling to seem interested in this “great discovery”.[…]

The Worlds First Open Source Beer Recipe
Except for all those ones in beermaking books. And the ones on the back of the tubs from Boots, they were pretty open source, in as much as they were not secret, or copyrighted or anything.
Indeed this article[…]

We all know you can prove anything with graphs. Especially when the graphs are non-scientific. Or not even in any way accurate. At the moment there is a lovely set of bus shelter ads by the currency convertors Travelex which do exactly this. Unfortun[…]

Cool piece by Rod Smith in the Seattle Weekly this week on sub-bass frequencies and the military. This subject always makes me think of Throbbing Gristle–most notably the time that TG tried to force a band of transients off their property in Ha[…]

One of my favourite all time ILx threads suddenly popped back today, and between more musing on nuclear power, I suggest anyone who has ever been afraid of gravity ceasing to exist so pop over there. The mass of Ilx science know-it-alls explain what […]

So France gets the nod then to build a huge nuclear fusion reactor. Hmm, that’s a little bit close isn’t it…
Not that the French don’t just love their nuclear power plants, being the largest producer of nuclear power per head […]

Did you ever have a friend of your parents who was called an Uncle? (Don’t worry, I am not going down that particular paedophile route here.) A mate of your Dad’s who, when you later found out the true definition of Uncle made you feel as[…]

“Einstein would have loved Glastonbury” However said scientist is not sure if he would have loved the mud. Equally said scientist gives no real concrete evidence of WHY Albert would have loved this hippy festival. Still, this is science: […]

What a difference a headline makes. Serious and quite interesting study on the way different bits of the brain works during orgasm is presented by the BBC Online sub-editor as OMG SCIENTISTS INVENT FAKE-A-TRONIC SCANNER, implying that future Harries […]