Interviewing the Hoff. Awesome.

Fabulous. One of the great interviews. I liked both of them by the end. (flagged as malware: http://www.theskinny.co.uk/comedy/features/302787-david_hasselhoff_do_you_guys_still_like_runrig)

Feynman on scientific culture in modern society

Feynman nails it, as always. Can we say this to the reshuffleshambles lot? The rest of the article is a great selection of his thinking too. … as I’d like to show Galileo our world, I must show him something with a great deal of shame. If we look away from the...

Will food be our Achilles heel?

Unsettling reading pointing to the real difficulty we will have feeding 9bn people (PDF) using modern agricultural and rearing methods. Technology (“ink-jet” printed meat, for example) could get us there, but I am aware of few obvious candidates even in...
Looking forward to Cloud Atlas

Looking forward to Cloud Atlas

The Wachowskis’ World beyond “The Matrix” : The New Yorkerhas a long but interesting look at the development of the film of David Mitchell’s book. In related news, I hadn’t realised one of the Wachowski brothers was now a sister.
August DYACs

August DYACs

The 15 Funniest Autocorrects From August 2012 are indeed funny. They build slowly in hilarity, but had me snorting by the end.