The Physics Detective Part Five — All Eyes on Pruszczyncki
Part five already, wow, unbelievable, how time flies, what drama, what action!!! (it’s hard enough trying to sell this story to the science folk I work with, so I’m overdo[…]

Is this:
a)A fantastic photo of an unplanned solar eclipse of the sun
b) A fantastic graphical example of why you should never, ever, ever stare into the sun.
(Huzzah for cameras so cheap that you have no viewfinder and therefore accidentally take sh[…]

Pub science, but actually bar science. Explaining to the ‘rents how the weather works based on two weeks of geography fifteen years ago and a lifetime of half watching the BBC weather forecast (which as Danny recently noted is getting increasin[…]

the science of (in around and about) storytelling
if you tell a story and it has a particular effect on you and the ppl you’re telling it to, and you tell it often and the effect is easily and obviously repeatable, as well as useful and benefi[…]

2000AD-tastic!
While the current version can only raise the alarm, it could be adapted to corner an intruder and neutralise them with a disintegrator if the customer wanted, Mr Hulth added.[…]

ja tvoi rabotnik
“LEACHIM was a talking robot that didn’t move. He would ask the children questions and tell them if they had answered right or wrong. If they answered a very important question wrong, for example, about violence, LEACHIM[…]

The Physics Detective Part Four — Lorimer the Louse
“But at least he finished his referee’s report before he died” … !!!
Pretty much a transition episode this week, since nobody’s buying Lorimer as a serious susp[…]

ja tvoi sluga
(since i know she won’t publicise it herself)[…]

Derbyshire and ID redux — just a quick followup to this earlier post on John Derbyshire’s frustrations with ID arguments and arguers. Presumably this will be his final word on the subject via the Corner blog, and it’s a pretty darn[…]

LOOK AROUND YOU UPDATE: A truism in comedy/tv serials is you make the second episode your best. The first drags them in, the second cements the audience. And episode 2 of Look Around You was much better than the first, mainly due to the extraneous de[…]