GOOGLING CAN SAVE YR LIFE:
this reverses the usual fear i guess but i still suspect mileage may vary (badman: “we have googled and found a thing called ilXoR: what exactly did you mean when you said… ” etc)[…]

The experiment is one of the best forms of narrative we have, and one of the most underused. You state your aim, you say how you are going to test it, and then you test it. Results, conclusion and potential closure. As a process it is massively under[…]

Always look on the bright side
Huo Jiyu, China, whose apartment was demolished by a space capsule on re-entry, is quoted in New Scientist,
“The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we’ll have good luck this year”[…]

Why Genesis failed
Apparently they put the sensors that detected re-entry in the wrong way up. A serious case of “elbow-posterior uncertainty at work” as the caption in this week’s New Scientist would have it.[…]

blinded by the little picture: more tumbles the market’s year, nice and wriggly the market’s day smoothed out (close of day 19 Oct = wheeee!)[…]

monkey-wrenching the k-kapital machine:
obsessive US pol-wonks will know what this is abt viz the left blogosphere’s organised assault the last few days on the share price of a media corp called sinclair (which is planning to air an anti-kerry[…]

CLASSIC MALABUSHISMS THAT = ACTUALLY KORREKT by SCIENCE #um 1
Sorry, but I like “the internets” – which GWB seems to be saying regularly now. I think it describes the world as it is: yes everything is in principle connected to ever[…]

Imagine my horror when I clicked on the BBC Website to find a picture of Alan Titchmarsh devolved by computer graphics magic into a Neanderthal. This wizardry was to illustrate his “Natural History Of Britain” series, latest in the long l[…]

Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief
Jonathan Miller is a very clever man, but I don’t know why this documentary is on TV. Does digital channel BBC 4 really have a wider audience than Radio 4? Maybe he knew that I at least was mor[…]

OBIT: Jacques Derrida :( :( :(
yes i know JD wz actually saying that ‘grammatology’ *wasn’t* a science, and couldn’t be, absent the impossible ?transcendental signifier”, but argts abt what science is and isn’t ma[…]