NETTLE KNICKERS! A wonderful BBC science piece where the headline is needlessly gratuitous and fades away to a nice but less shocking piece on textile science. Of course nettle knickers could act as an appropriately natural defence against many preda[…]

Science, you’ve gone too far this time.[…]

Thank you Geeta! Hello fact fans. The quote below says three things to me: that 1) to Holmes, science comprises Frank Kogan’s definition of “what I saw in high school” rather than “what everyone agrees on” and 2) as earl[…]

Tracer Hand requested that I post this:
“It is very curious to see how science, that is, looking at and arranging the facts of a case with our own eyes and our own intelligence, without minding what somebody else has said, or how some old major[…]

“the color of television tuned to a dead channel”
pictures of cassini-huygen’s mission to saturn and titan[…]

Drinking Makes Bones Denser: this explains why Pete weighs fifteen stone.[…]

Quarks and their Sexual Preferences
“The top is so massive and short-lived that it does not live long enough to combine with other quarks to form a hadron.”
(this = muster mark s’s contribution to bloomsday obv)[…]

Sick Transit – Glorious Tuesday
I suppose we really should mention this today – if only to make up for the sight of Brian May on our TVs again. So here’s some history in a link to the Armagh Observatory’s Transit of Venus Exhi[…]

Top Five things in Science – Ever
“The Comedy Research Project aims to prove the hypothesis that science can be funny.”
A little late, as it’s a show tonight at PBS fave* The DANA Centre, but it’s on the 15th and 22nd to[…]

LARGEST PRIME NUMBER DISCOVERED
Oh, BBC website, how you love your splashy headlines. As any fule no (even those of us who lack a concept of infinity) that there is no largest prime number. But what has been found is the largest Mersenne Prime SO FAR[…]