FURTHER HOME EXPERIMENTS WITH CHEESE: dose yrself with a huge chunk of parmesan last thing at night, when you haven’t eaten anything else all evening
results:
i. you don’t get to sleep for hours (note to self: similar to the PRINGLES eff[…]

New robots can perform somersaults, complex martial arts moves.
“There are challenges in terms of mechanics still, but the biggest gap would be in intelligence,” he told New Scientist. “One of the key things we are looking at now is[…]

Scientists discover what the rest of the world has known for ages: rejection HURTS[…]

From the ‘PBS’ postbag –
“Are there any geneticists out there who would know what would happen if my sister and I attempted to breed?” – J White, Detroit
‘Professor of Interplanetary Craft’ R Carpenter[…]

Spamwatch: the FT email accounts are still getting lots of boring old African dictators but an exciting new trend on the horizon is the garbled subject spam. First off Rayad Corkhill mails me to say “YFggh GGet a huge dink dxxr”, then it&[…]

Losing your grip on the real world: I’ve done this myself, when you forget that what you (and maybe your social circle) know and understand does not necessarily mean that everyone knows this, but not with such persistence as an old friend of An[…]

The cover of the popular science book The Glass Bathyscaphe (Alan Macfarlane & Gerry Martin) shows a picture of Alexander The Great in what looks like a big bottle under the sea tied to a teeny, tiny boat. It is a striking image which promises m[…]

I’m really intrigued by recent comparative studies of music and language processing; it seems that linguistics has more in common with musical rules than was previously thought. There are a lot of links: language and music are both universal; t[…]

Mathematics and the people who inhabit it: this is the beginning of a nice idea (portraits of three mathematicians each with their favourite equation), though the webpage resolution does the algebra no favours, and I wish artist Lynn Hughes had taken[…]

APPARATUS
1 bear, 1 tree, 1 trampoline, 1 TV camera and stopwatch
METHOD
We let the bear climb up into the tree and then we put the trampoline under the tree and then my friend Simon shot him with a tranquilizer dart and I filmed it for the telly.
RE[…]