I saw a cloud the other day that looked just like Margaret Rutherford in Blithe Spirit. Admitttedly if she was in profile, and if her body was significantly truncated and blobby like the Michelin Man. It was a passing fancy at the time, little did I […]

2005 is the Einstein Year
And what better way to celebrate the life and achievements of one of the greatest physicists than: The Einstein Flip. A revolutionary way of putting many of his theories on space-time convergence to the test, the Einstein Fl[…]

Explaining one of my new years resolutions the other day (to not fart in public places) there was a remark that this would be dangerous. Apparently said person thought the gasses would build up inside me and make me explode. The same person later sai[…]

Mark S’ excellent experiments in cooking (see the post directly below this post) — especially his adventures in gingerbread-making and theories about raisins — remind me greatly of J.J. Thomson’s slightly bonkers “plum p[…]

how INADVERTENT experiment created ALL SCIENCE
(a “pumpkin publog” co-production)[…]

ANNALS OF KID SCIENCE
overheard, small sister (7?) and brother (8?) sitting together on a bus (the brother is the older one)
b: there IS no largest number! s: yes there is!* b: there could be a number that started at the beginning of this bus and […]

The new face of Creationism.
CNN ran a story yesterday on the Intelligent Design Network’s proposed revisions to the science standards set by the Kansas School Board. It should come as a surprise to no one that this is happening in Kansas, […]

Babbage Minifig Not Included
LEGO logic gates! Via Slashdot.[…]

The Millau Bridge
Winner of the “Build the biggest fucking bridge you can” competition. Really, the only response to this thing is: “Fuck me, but that’s enormous”
Unfortunately the bridge’s own site, http://www.via[…]

Light Fantastic by Simon Schaffer [BBC4] wednesday nights
I should be nice about the presenter of this show (and can at least spell his name correctly unlike many print listings I’ve seen) as he was one of the teacher’s at the department […]