The Birds, The Bees, and…?: “When prairie voles have sex, two hormones called oxytocin and vasopressin are released. If the release of these hormones is blocked, prairie-voles’ sex becomes a fleeting affair, like that normally enjo[…]

Consciousness and quantum physics
There are very few more interesting and dfficult subjects than the nature of mind and consciousness. It doesn’t seem to resemble anything else in the universe. What is it? What is it made of? Is it distinct fro[…]

Since MOTHS never sleep, and are as active now as 50 years ago, the looks of bafflement that sistrah Becky and I got when we asked for MOTHBALLS are a bit baffling in themselves (e.g. in Woolworths and in my otherwise unimpeachable nearby drycleaners[…]

Call David Icke!! Proof “they” walk among us uncovered while watching Crufts Dog Show on BBC2

Dogs from space!![…]

It’s no PBS yet (it’s only a few days old), but here’s Chicago physicist Sean Carroll’s Preposterous Universe blog, plus manifesto: “Let’s cast this as a shrewd, techno-savvy blow against the hyperspecialization of[…]

Selected lines
“They have female external genitalia, a blind vagina, and no uterus.”
“His skin became very thick and formed loose spines that were sloughed off at intervals. When he grew up, this “porcupine man” married […]

Great Words In Science Number Two: Winding (number)
A lot of people’s view of topology stops short at “a cup of coffee is a doughnut”, and that’s a perfect place to stop, because it seems like nonsense/obvious to pretty much e[…]

Great Words In Science Number One: Martingale
In modern probability theory, a martingale is a random process which has an expected value equal to its current value. So if you are betting on someone flipping a coin over and over again and you are give[…]

Science Questions Yr Sister Asks You (That You Don’t Know The Answer To):
“What does the word ‘turbo’ mean when it’s on a packet of disposable razors?”[…]

Juicy quotes:
The reviewer died of boredom while attempting to find interesting lines from this book.

MACROECONOMICS Olivier Blanchard.

Okay, so the link between ‘economics’ and ‘science’ is pretty thin. But here we have i[…]