WAHEY! the Natural History Museum is going to have a real actual GIANT SQUID in a tank, although I think the graun is pushing it by saying “…for the first time ever, members of the public will get to see one of the most mysterious animals[…]

You Are What You Listen To
In response to the findings in the article, the whole world commented, “DUH”.
“Another participant was worried about what his co-workers would think of the Justin Timberlake and Michael McDonald music he […]

Is this a science post at all? BBC Weather is ditching its own familiar symbols for super-graphics which make britain look less green. The second controversial BBC weather story in two months, what is the world coming to.
This is clearly a science i[…]

(Yes this blog is officially the anti-infinity “maths? it’s rubbish” blog)
922 cats watching the cat before as of today. The site has been going for over a year (I think) and at this rate they show no sign of getting any closer to i[…]

Reprinted in full from ad industry site WARC:
“Shampoo Ad Claims, ‘Not to be Taken Literally’ Insists P&G
Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority has administered a severe ‘tssssk’ to Procter & Gamble […]

Fantastic article from the Manila Times regarding a Philippines Professor’s discover that Andrew Wiles proof of Fermat’s Last Theory is flawed. The article is best read for Andrew Wiles response to this which illustrates his thorough Engl[…]

FIREFOX DOWN
Come on, if you are going to call your free open source browser that, you can only expect one outcome.
I wonder if another company is making some “off book” payments to hackers to find flaws in Firefox. Maybe Unigate Dairies.[…]

Out with a friend who is a real actual scientist yesterday, who was explaining his new job doing research on nano-magnets. Such is the level of layman knowledge of science, he was genuinely pleased when Alan made a nanofridge joke. Still, perhaps thi[…]

the more i read about the litter of space dust in orbit round all these other so-called “planets”, the more i like our own homegrown giant lifeless blob — it is big and it is clever[…]

Clay Shirky’s essay A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy is a couple of years old but I found it personally resonant right now.
“And, finally, you have to find a way to spare the group from scale. Scale alone kills conversations, because conver[…]