From the “when it becomes a fad” department, we have the following picture. Now, let’s all understand that for people with coeliac disease, it’s sometimes hard to find things that are gluten-free. Wheat gluten shows […]
I’d love someone to try this out — does anyone have two computers (one for a control) and mind deactivating their antivirus software in order to give it a go? You could try it out […]
One of my very best friends made me very jealous this week, because she (unlike me) lives in a place with a vast expanse of uninterrupted, unpolluted sky. This week, of course, was the annual […]
On this #ThrowbackThursday, I share one of my favourite historical science books: J. B. S. Haldane’s Daedalus, or, Science and the Future. *** When I was in undergrad, one of the colleges at my university […]
So as you’ve heard, Google’s changing its name to Alphabet. But there’s still going to be a Google, because why waste a perfectly good brand? It’s a pretty big tech news event, so I’ve done the […]
I’m trying a #ThrowBackThursday post today, in memory of this day seventy years ago. *** Seventy years ago, on August 6, 1945, at 8:15am local time, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was destroyed by the […]
Mapping Dwarf Planets This was going to be a part of the news roundup yesterday, but I had too many stories to tell to fit something this big in. So here you go: a Monday […]
The US Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, responded today to a We The People petition by anti-vaxxers scared of mandatory vaccination schedules. He knocked it out of the park. So here are some excerpts, followed by […]
Charm your enemies and amuse your friends with the use of the words “All Natural” on American food packaging. MSG is, of course, all natural. But don’t tell the “natural” vs. “chemical” folks that (or do, […]
I don’t normally post on Thursdays, but today’s an important day for me and for many of my friends and loved ones. Today is Openly Secular Day, brought to you by the good and hardworking […]