A new science curriculum proposed in Georgia for high school teachers has been edited to avoid all mentions of the term “evolution.” Republican state school superintendent Kathy Cox backs the changes — it’s a crusade of hers,[…]

Polemic from yesterday’s Guardian by a certain Steve Grand. Is this the same guy that worked on Creatures ‘ the A-Life game that I still haven’t seen.
Bonus A-life link: Stanislaw Lem’s Non Serviam ‘ a great story in a f[…]

Scientists have found a new form of matter. Marvellous! What? Bose-Einstein condensate what? I thought there were only solid liquid gas and plasma. They’re busy at it aren’t they those scientists?[…]

Pretty much as soon as the blizzard started (w/thunder and everything) one of our rabbits started going mental – she was darting about, bashing her hutch-mate and making the loudest growls I’ve ever heard from her, echoing snarling yelps […]

Hurrah! The Lady QCs took second place in the pub quiz and first place in the spiritual victory prize. Yes, last night there was a mob-handed takeover at the quiz, where our motley two groups of loons scooped first AND second prize. I felt a little g[…]

The Science of the Cookery of Animals Which Don’t Exist #1: The Cockentrice

(I’m still trying to track down net sources on a really interesting piece I read in Scientific American some years back, about medieval theories of food and nu[…]

Damn those cunning spammers – they’ve got me good and proper this time. I received an email saying “you are an idiot” – excellent, I thought! There’s nothing that gets the circulation going like flame-mail. But no,[…]

Water on Mars is not news, especially… James Lovelock – who worked for NASA developing techniques for testing planetary atmospheres, and comparing Mars with Venus and Earth – argues that you can tell if life exists on a planet by ta[…]

A little interesting physical phenomenon was brought to my attention by a slashdot post — this article on salvaging the Hubble Space Telescope. It turns out the replacement for the HST will not orbit the earth rather it will orbit the sun at an[…]

“It was all going well and then you mucked it up. Trust a geologist!” Excerpt from the new series of Rough Science in which our host Kate Humble shows consternation at the new boy geologist getting the wrong kind of rocks to make Plaster […]