Relaxing in my headphones with the iPod on shuffle and my mind at 11,000 metres, I was jarred rudely awake. Ella and Louis had just finished singing A Foggy Day when what should Frank Sinatra choose to sing but the exact same song. This is the first time this has ever happened to me in many, many...

Fish stories excite me. I don't know why. I can think of few things less interesting than sitting on a riverbank watching a float bob. But scientific investigations of similar topics make my pulse race, maybe because there can be few subjects that so perfectly illustrate the all-too-human inability...

My thanks to The Online Photographer for first posting this (2022-04-30: though I’m blowed if I can find the original link).

I’m interupting the delayed-gratification travelblog briefly to announce a fine sighting: a new collective science blog. What I really like is how it came about, which I learned from Seth Roberts. Executive summary: Seed Magazine rejected a bunch of applicants who wished to join the pantheon at...

I do not normally consider myself in the linking-madly-diverse-bits-of-information-to-come-up-with-some-startling-new-perception game. But this past week, truly, two completely separate blog postings have dealt with the idea of simplicity and a good user experience from two entirely different perspe...