Boy in the corner
Private Eye seem to have taken sides in the on-going “was Hawking wrong?” debate.[…]

Bad Science at the Guardian has a crusade against You Are What You Eat’s Dr Gillian McKeith (PhD – ahem), who they point out does not really seem to have a proper PhD at all. Last week they spent much of their time moaning about this lack[…]

I took my first painkiller in over ten years last night. The rumours of my unbreakablility it seems have been exaggerated. I always assumed that it was a temporary state of luck and would end soon after I hit thirty. Well I go eleven months grace on […]

WASPS WOULD BE RUBBISH ON ROBOT WARS
Not just because they are not robots, because in word, deed and attitude they are barely seperate from the Cyberman’s old pets Cybermats*. No-one like wasps after all. They look evil, sting and are always in[…]

you know yr living in the future when
you read a headline like DRONES PING TERRORISTS’ MOBILES
(it’s up there w.”btw i haf queued all yr grime”)[…]

the gold to ciba-geigy, the silver to roche…
half-watching that c4 prog on doping last night, mark s and the “unspecified guests” solved the moral-philosophical problem of chemical enhancement viz like in grand prix, the teams shd[…]

Fireworks
To celebrate the 50th birthday of CERN a firework display was held telling the story of the universe. It included a big bang (obviously), inflation, fundamental forces, matter, stars and planets. According to Rolf Landau, who helped design […]

“Mac Nerdery etc” at daringfireball.net
John Gruber – my sort of nerd. Some substantial essays often extolling more sober lines of thought as an antidote to popular badly-thought-through-isms. A prime example being the recent &#8220[…]

Kittens At Science Forefront: “It’s like a real life version of Photoshop!” says delighted public.[…]

“Clutt’ moi, phter Werune!”
Say something in Proto-Indo-European![…]