“copyrighting the alphabet will not produce more books“:
i have to keep my eye on WAY more of this stuff if i am ever to get the last section of my book (the big one) (which i have been writing for 14 years now sigh) back in play: if i h[…]

FOOT-IN-DOOR PEER-REVIEW :
andrew wakefield is the doctor who kicked off the debate about the MMR jab – and whether combining the measles mumps and rubella inoculation was possibly responsible for an as-yet unexplained surge in cases of autism[…]

ALL DIEBOLD ALL THE TIME:
Microsoft: “We think our software is far more secure than open-source software. It is more secure because we stand behind it, we fixed it, because we built it. Nobody ever knows who built open-source software,” […]

KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES!!
i used to get v.worked up when small abt the bright green meteor shower in the day of the triffids
i. wd i have watched it? ans=yesii. wd i now be purblind triffid-bait? ans=yes
(warning: they probbly don’t look lik[…]

dead as the ebu gogo
Human extinction within 100 years warns prizewinning scientist[…]

Sloppy Science: the athletics edition
The September 30 issue of Nature featured a brief communication with a study comparing men’s and women’s sprinting. The authors concluded that by the 2156 Olympics, the winner of the women’s 100[…]

CAN MAN LIVE ON BEER ALONE???
Ans, proven by science = NO.[…]

You’d think I would know this but…
Is there a proper definition of the point at which simply ‘not shaving’ becomes ‘a beard’? And if not can we science one up please?[…]

Internet Explorer Must Die Part 2351
What’d’ya know? Mozilla.org seems busy today.
I find the fanaticism surrounding Firefox alarming and puzzling. According to BBC news, “Fans of the software have banded together to raise cash to p[…]

Huge article in the November issue of Scientific American asking (cue doodly synth music) “What is the secret behind music’s strange power?” I’m a sucker for music/brain articles–it’s one of my favorite subjects to[…]