Dear Transport for London,
My travelling requirements are as follows:
Leave home (Upper Clapton, Hackney) around 6pm on Friday, arriving at Buckhurst Hill station as soon as possible. I have filtered out the tube / train as I only have a bus pass and[…]

Okay, okay – we will get on to proper science somewhere along the line, not just stuff I read on the side of a bus. But really. Colgate “Oxygen”! I think pseudo-science in cosmetic adverts have reached such a point that Colgate need[…]

I don’t know whay this has never occured to me in the five years the campaign has been running. But Fashion Targets Breast Cancer, laudable charity that it is, seems to have made one tiny error. Look at the target on the left. Where is it aimin[…]

Ulp. South African ladies Bite Back. With special downstairs teeth. And I quote:
It had been designed with engineers, gynaecologists, psychologists and urologists. It was “hygienic – no human hands will be involved in the manufacture&#822[…]

Yet again, grey squirrels are being blamed for the falling populations of red squirrels – this time in Scotland. And the BBC are going along with the jingoistic, nationalistic reporting in their article on the subject. Apparently grey squirrels[…]

Wonderful, wonderful Ananova, completely missing the obvious headline here, as a bus company uses sheep urine to cut down on pollution. It may well remove harmful noxious substances from our atmosphere. But has anyone tested how safe it is to spray s[…]

or piss off progress part deux[…]

During the 3 years in which I did not shave the science of razors appears to have advanced by leaps and bounds. I don’t believe I ever used the amazing 3-bladed Mach 3 razors and certainly back in the day we never had the remarkable and TOTALLY[…]

How to destroy the Earth. I knew that 2,500,000,000,000 tonnes of antimatter would come in handy one day.[…]

that is all[…]