Scratching the surface of dude
Study of the second most flexible four letter word.[…]

THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED
Look! Silver jump suits and everything. My favourite is the “i-foot”: “a two-legged mountable robot like device that can be controlled with a joystick.” JOYSTICK?? Take this seriously and plug it direct[…]

“time to give yrself into strange gods’ hands”: or how an IT GUY saved my BACON at the mere small cost only of the sacrifice of my DIGNITY hurrah ugh groo
mark s (by email): dear lovely IT Guy One , IT Guy Two says you sometimes un[…]

Good news for all you lefthanders out there.
If widespread hand-to-hand combat breaks out in your society, you’re likely to flourish!
The side effects include reduced lifespan, low birthweight and increased incidence of immune and nervous disor[…]

I have recently read John Gray’s Straw Dogs and my pained response may or may not produce something longer from me at a later point. For now I am content just to blog this essay by Keith Sutherland from the academic Journal of Consciousness Stu[…]

Merry Christmas Titan! — though the gift will be delivered late. A quick check on the Cassini-Huygens mission (all’s going ridiculously well so far, next Titan flyby in seven days) shows that the Huygens probe will be released on Decembe[…]

HOBBIT WARS
“One of Indonesia’s leading palaeontologists, Professor Teuku Jacob of Gadjah Mada University in Jakarta, has grabbed the hobbit remains and locked them away in his safe, refusing to let other scientists study them.”
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Million-dollar supercar stolen
It even has a homing device!! I guess the ‘jackers knew how to turn it off…[…]

Economic Temple of Doom! Monkey Brains Solve Game Theory
I am wondering if this headline (loosely based in recent neuroscience, even!) beats Tom’s latest.[…]

Bee-covered sodomising asteroid: is the use of the term “nuclear winter” here because
i) this has become a real actual science name for any long-term post-explosive atmospheric temperature drop.
ii) this has become a lazy shorthand for an[…]