Balls condemns expert for knowing stuff

The Mash nails it again…In related news, I had to laugh at a BBC headline “Balls criticises Bulger” was all you could see yesterday (and still is on the search slug) . Yes, I know I am bad for doing so, I know, I know)
Why we don’t implode

Why we don’t implode

Experimental demonstration of Pauli’s exclusion principle: bosons hang together, fermions don’t and because of that we are not all one big ball of stuff.
What a ball of gas

What a ball of gas

As a race, we don’t quite understand the Sun (how it works, how prominences and spots form), but we are getting there. Stunning image created during a 2008 eclipse.

Google Apps Script

Visual Basic (well, JavaScript) for Google Apps. Neat. Allows you to automate repetitive stuff in Google Apps and to create custom functions. Groupbills, here we come.

Employee compensation

More useful thinking on how to reward staff in such a way that we can be open about disclosing wages. I wonder how much of the stigma is that we all know how literally lucky we are to be earning them. I mean that some of our earning capacity is down to hard work and...