Apprentice viewers realise contestants have no identities

Mash. Well, other than Tom the nerd, of course. “I think we can safely say that they’re not what we would understand as ‘people’. We suspect they’re some sort of drifting, cosmic fungus that has hit Earth and started shopping in Tie...

Physics and the limits of human knowledge

A nicely human and subjective view of some of the places where physics and philosophy blend. I very much agree that reverting to the Higgs particle (rather than “god particle”) makes sense. Although “God boson” has a lovely...

Bye, bye books

Astonishing numbers from Amazon. Amazon.com now sells 105 Kindle editions for every 100 traditional paper books. This compares is all paid-for Kindle editions with all hardback and paperback sales of books regardless of whether there is a Kindle edition or not. So the...

Terrible pun

@TheSimonEvans: My lead tenor is ruining the songs in my new Eco-Opera. An aria – The Sighs of Whales – is being destroyed every day. Brilliant. Opera, eco, bad science reporting all in one.

Fridays At Work

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/8491/fridays-at-work/ DYAC is always good, but I liked this one.