Which makes you sicker? Swine flu and its attendant brouhaha? Or the monster operations that make swine ’flu the least of our worries?
Photo stolen from John Gribbin, but it's going around. Like the ’flu.
It is so easy to keep doing nothing when you’ve been doing nothing for a month or so. This inactivity has to stop, and today is as good a day as any.
I’ve always enjoyed playing with ferments, and used to make yoghurt in a curious contraption with little hexagonal glass pots and a double-walled al...
Which makes you sicker? Swine flu and its attendant brouhaha? Or the monster operations that make swine ’flu the least of our worries?
Photo stolen from John Gribbin, but it's going around. Like the ’flu.
The Kellogg Company just announced that it will donate one full day’s cereal production to something called the Feeding America food bank network. Good for them. What staggered me was not the fact of Kellogg’s generosity but the size of it. A day’s cereal production is 3.5 million pounds, or 1,5...
I’ve just watched a very interesting TedTalk by a man called Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.1 Several things made it noteworthy. The graphics were very clear and very well thought out. The thesis was interesting -- that it is possible to predict the outcome of complex negotiations with a game theoret...
It must have been about 25 years ago. I had just bought my first ever motor car. It was a Mazda 323 and I was pleased as punch with it. But a car is only a car. So when my good friend David said “give me your car, to go for a ride” I was happy to hand him the keys, even though I didn’t know how lo...
