Science proved what I’ve always suspected — that humans have been eating cereal since the beginning of time. Well, not the beginning of time, but 23,000 years ago, which is, um, within some orders of magnitude of the beginning of time. Wh[…]

Growing a Language
A comment from a colleague reminded me of this classic paper on programming language design. If you are not interested in programming just take a look at the first 4 or 5 pages and the last page.
Is there a word for making a poin[…]

It rained yesterday. 
 
“St. Swithin’s day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain
St. Swithin’s day if thou be fair
For forty days ’twill rain nae mair”
 
A former teacher introduced me to the […]

Early life resembles 5th form Computer Studies project. Complexity formed through simple fractal patterns seen in Ediacaran period fossils.[…]

Ancient Grannies…
There was an interesting article in New Scientist last week (print version only). Researchers have analysed the age at which ancient humans died, and plotted a graph of life expectancy over the last few million years. It shows[…]

WARNING: PISS-POOR SATIRE ALERT
Back to our old friends BBC news who are pretty pleased with their headline “Museum has flush of inspiration” even though it does not really make sense. (You have flashes of inspiration, hence the lightbulb[…]

Bush Administration VS Science: FITE![…]

An old story but more proof. Drink red wine!
You may have to read through some gene-y (as opposed to genie) crap to get to the point.[…]

ALL FREAKY TRIGGER CONTRIBUTORS PLEASE READ!*
In Blogger you have two names – your ‘display name’ and your ‘first’ and ‘last’ name. On Freaky Trigger the ‘display name’ appears on the RSS feed (i.[…]

In this seasonal travel period I thought I would share with you the ins and outs (quite literally in my case) of motion or travel sickness.
The trad view of motion sickness is that it occurs where the brain receives conflicting messages from the visu[…]