The BBC Health News website seems obsessed with doctors clothes. Nary two weeks after the ground breaking Doctors Shouldn’t Wear Jeans story we have the more frightening Ties Carry Deadly Diseases. There is a vague point in the second story, ti[…]

WOULD YOU ELECT THIS (or any other) PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS?[…]

Before and After Para-Science #2
So here i wz in Wales, during a little break from ferrying my invalid mum’m’dad around, and i wz making notes on a piece frank kogan commissioned wms contributors to write, ages back, which in my case is […]

Before and After Para-Science #1 and b4 u say anything i’ve got #2 lined up so :b
“Q: … The more the better. We are glad to meet all our friends. What can we do for you? “A: Attend. Obey the spirits. “Q: We will do a[…]

Heavy Water. A great lost pub band name I daresay. But also the name of one of the most fun chemical compounds. It is water, with extri neutrons. Deuterium is just fat hydrogen and as such Heavy Water is just water but just a bit lardier.
I was remin[…]

10 Years Younger (in 10 Days)
A disturbing and unpleasant show – thanks new look Channel 4! But such concerns are fit for discussion on sibling blog Do You See. No, what I want to bring to your attention is the poor methodology of the show.
At […]

Big shout out to the St Louis Zoo, whose marketing manager saw our front page capybara and sent me details of theirs. Awww. However the capy’s days as our cover star are numbered – we need a new animal, suggestions are welcome, or it migh[…]

HUR HUR HUR
Diagram from the news story that Pete links to (below) LOOKS A BIT RUDE. (Tilt head to left)[…]

The days of private spaceflight are almost upon us. Which means that perhaps my ambition of going into space before I die still may happen. If I managed to become a billionaire. But before we cheer the incoming privateers of space (and the attendant […]

Songs About Science in MP3 format. I’d be amazed if we haven’t linked this sometime before, but who cares – it’s 1950S SCIENCE SONGS IN MP3 FORMAT!!??!![…]