The funniest thing I have read lately. Ben Elton's new Britcom 'The Wright Way' has been panned by critics.  It is about a health and safety team in the fictitious borough of Baselricky. One…

The well-known moral dilemma about sacrificing a few to save many has now been answered by extraction of empirical data from conceivable parallel worlds via obvious-operators instantiated in neural…

The Authentic Biography OF H2O as told exclusively to this author Thanks to its marvellous memory, water tells some tales of its adventures down through the ages. It was somewhere between 20 and 40…

Is Google On The Level? I have often complained about the way that Google search behaves.  For instance, try looking up the capacitance of a lead-acid battery.  Good luck with that - Google…

This is another of my poems for children of all ages. It is very fortunate for me that the grammar police have never been issued with tazers.....Paddles At The Beachside The rains is gonethe sand are…

With the popularity of dark matter and dark energy as blanket terms for 'this is weird and we don't understand it but we are studying it, ain't science awesome?' in physics, it was only a matter of…

What is the optimum stroke angle for a duck’s foot when paddling?  Although a duck may already intuitively know the answer, the question has now been clarified for us humans as part of a recent…

The Windows® NTFS disk filing system was first introduced in 1993, but despite its undoubted sophistication, not everyone is convinced that it is perfectly tuned for all possible eventualities.…

Would one normally expect a health-professional’s stethoscope to hang more predominantly to their left, or their right? And if there is a bias, what conclusions may be drawn? In 2007, professor…

Typical Male ? Just for fun: What else might Nicholas Cage be saying?  There's plenty of scope here for your ideas.