Why is it hotter in summer than in winter?

That was one of four science-ish questions that Jonathan Drori put to TED in February 2007. As it happens I knew the answer to that one and to the other three. Drori said that it was surprising how few people, including -- gasp -- MIT students, knew the...

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You probably don't have time for coffee, whereas with a Microsoft installation you have time for dinner or a trip to the cinema.

Oh no! I think I may have machine envy. The Wombat has an Asus EEE PC 1000. But, how good is the keyboard?

If it was an inch bigger I think I could use it for...

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I didn’t think I would be, but I’m really rather peeved by the way my WordPress update worked out. And not just WordPress. There seems to be an obsession with making things more complicated -- possibly just for the sake of it -- rather than with making them wo...

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Wikipediagem:

In fact let me point out right now a factually incorrect statement that has obviously been put there with malice, in a place where you need technical skills in linguistics to spot it. In the [Wikipedia] article on renegade AIDS researcher Peter Duesberg, a pronunciation is given af...

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If you’re caught short in rural Finland, you’ll need a mobile phone. According to cellular news, the Road Authority there has installed locks on public toilets. A sign on the door explains that users need to text “open” (in Finnish, obviously; I hope the sign explains that) to a specific number, a...

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