Zoophiles

Zoophiles Make Scientists Rethink Human Sexuality is a fascinating read. You’ll learn what a plethysmograph is, for a start. And after you’ve got over your inbuilt “yuk” you might think seriously if there is a genuine sexual orientation in...

Romantic horror films

A timely reminder that the Twitter comedy hashtags are so derivative of excellent work with years and years of history: FARKers nail this photoshop contest.
Unfortunate byline

Unfortunate byline

Thanks to Ben for pointing out this cracking byline in the Times article Vienna Boys’ Choir caught up in sex abuse scandals. Is this nominative determinism by proxy? It will be the first hit on Google for it, so maybe I have invented something....

Go Nutt, go!

“Hand out mephedrone in nightclubs” is how Nutt’s most recent intervention has been presented. That’s not quite what he said. Onwards, legalisation.

Italian academia

Fascinating note on a parallel reward system that is based on no one getting exactly what they want but being reasonably happy nevertheless.

Virtual Lux Aurumque

I didn’t see this when it was being done. Here’s the details on how it was done. Who’d have thought Eric Whitacre was movie star like? Not a bad attempt at virtual singing by more than 100 people (only one in the UK, I think). The main issue for me...