Old Dinosaurs: no better illustration of how our conceptions of dinos have changed than the beautiful dinosaur models at Crystal Palace.[…]

Open the door, get on the floor
Tom’s post reminded me of another childhood notion that was altered by a shift in scientific thinking.
In the picture books of our youth, yer bipedal dinosaur varieties walked upright with their tails dragging a[…]

“ur all gay planetary bodies for the rock band Kuiper Belt Object” –Sir Patrick Moore[…]

ORIGAMI ROBOTS!!!!!!!?!!!
(OK possibly it’s something quite other, but that’s what we want and need it to be…)

[all yr cardboard robot DOWNLOAD needs catered for here: galactic megalomaniacs cut-out’n’glue yr own all-c[…]

HAZCHEM!!: odorless, tasteless liquid, can be deadly…[…]

This month’s tenth planet found in Kuiper Belt – anyone following the links on the right of the BBC’s story will find many remarkably similar stories in the archives, though my favourite extra planet story is still this one (itself […]

TROTS IN SPACE!!
Grrr, Uncarved beat me to the link. I meant to write something abt the plans and politics of other radical space orgs, such as the since-disbanded AAA, but the Fortean Times took such an age to get this on-line that other projects i[…]

Wildlife Corner: a picture of one of my rabbits, to celebrate my getting my digital camera working again after several months. Expect a more visual FT over the next few weeks, until I get bored with it (or break it!) again.[…]

Lite Brite, Schmite Brite: At first, I thought sciencists were jonesing on a scatological gene-splicing tip – “And for our next trick, we will breed pigs with break away tails! And then cows with incisors! Sharks with opposable thumbs![…]

KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES
Or this:

will fall on yr head and you will see these:

(haha that wacky astromechanics jargon: “it will wind up in a tumbling state”)[…]