Oil Of Olay, unlike other anti-aging creams, deals with the seven signs of aging, not just wrinkles and lines. Seven stages? What are these? And how exactly does a face cream deal with cellular degeneration, senility, impotence and tutting when young[…]

I stumbled across The End on BBC3 last Thursday, and a more jolly, optimistic programme you could not imagine to find in the schedules. An hour long show, predicated on Groundhog Day where a scientist trying to get to America to run his potentially w[…]

For anyone browsing the archives in a more temporally enabled age, you may be interested in attending this convention. Please take care not to tread on any butterflies.[…]

Humph. At Toronto, we had to settle for hearing Ed Witten, a guy who basically invented his own field and is the most cited physicist of the past twenty years. However, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo got a visit from &#82[…]

To summarize:
Men want hot chicks, who in turn want money and power. It’s evolution, baby!
Girls, your looks will fade after you hit 30, but don’t despair, just wear lots of makeup, pad your bra, and you can fool guys no sweat — th[…]

It seems like ages since we’ve had a classic cybersquatting story.[…]

China is heaving a collective sigh of relief today* as it appears that the Great Wall Of China can be seen with the naked eye from space after all. Of course when they say naked eye, they mean an eye behind at least one inch of reinforced plastiglass[…]

Ananova, the kings of making a story out of half an idea, reports on the Most Realistic Sex Robots yet! Even a cursory read brings up some disturbing issues. Most clearly the fact that these robots have hearts and breathe like real people. During sex[…]

Not a riddle. Not a puzzle. Just how do you say it?
(Thanks to Doctor T for this one).

If 60% of students say they would do X and 90% say they would do Y, how much more likely are they to do Y than X. 50% more likely (i.e. 60 + 30, half again)? 33% […]

Don’t have the actual letter to quote, but the main idea ensconced in said letter has burnt its way into my brain. So I paraphrase, and cannot attribute (comment section might be helpful)
“I appreciate the sense of companies trying to red[…]