But often find myself lacking the basic knowledge to help me understand infinity. So, I turn to children’s books! Currently I have The Number Devil on rotation. But what does Amazon recommend to me? Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi – M[…]

An experiment to detect the effects of using girly moisturiser on a man’s face
Diagram and Apparatus
MethodI will be applying girly moisturiser to ONE HALF OF MY FACE. Which half (left/right) is only known to 2 people. I have devised a proper d[…]

Formicophilia is a fetish involving having bugs and worms crawling all over one’s body. For some reason, the few case histories concerning this have been reports from predominantly Buddhist countries. Perhaps investing all my savings in export[…]

What are the limits of dramatic license when editing together yr footage in a documentary abt animals? In Natural World (Sunday 30 November, 6.25pm BBC2), “Monkey Prince” told the glum tale of Bobo, an existentially tormented fellow with […]

I have a slim vol on my bookshelf called Genes, People and Language by a fellow called Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza. Using genetic tests, one can draw trees which show how early man spread around the globe. Using linguistics, one can plot very similar t[…]

Particle Physics Explained – this also talks about infinity!!
The best contender at the moment is String Theory- which has as the basic unit of physical reality a string vibrating in 9 dimensions.
As you know, the length of any piece of string[…]

What is to be done with Richard Dawkins?
RD’s contribution to the tiresome “Dear George” that The Guardian felt compelled to publish last week:
After you and Jeb stole the election (by a margin smaller than the number of folks you […]

(Topologically speaking Hopkins is wrong of course: any closed fence on the surface of a genus zero object surrounds the regions “inside” and “outside” the fence.)[…]

FAUNA OF POLAND: MY GUIDE
“We have no rabbits in Poland” said our guide gravely as Isabel enthused over our pets back home (thriving, thanks for asking). Despite this obvious flaw the country boasts a rich natural fauna as follows.
WILD B[…]

WHEN BRANES COLLIDE!
OK so the Big Bang maybe happened when two M-Branes banged into one another: and there’s another brane-bang on the way some time soon maybe. And at CERN currently they’re building a particle-accelerator big enough th[…]