Alice in Galaxyland

This blog post will probably be completely useless, but I feel like writing it just in case, the way the Voyagers have messages from the hum...

Are you, like me, addicted to a daily checking of Astronomy Picture of the Day ? It's always well worth a look, but today is extra spec...

What with Trafigura and Simon , last week was a great one for free speech, but we still have a long way to go. Good old Simon (the other on...

Continuing the very bogus story co-authored by Crispian Jago . . . Scene 3 The Back Knight has finished his apprenticeship and is now sett...

A completely bogus tale. My representations of historical characters are also entirely bogus and used only for convenience ( for instance, H...

Well, Simon Singh won! That is, he has been granted leave to appeal against Judge Eady's ruling on the meaning of his article. The actua...

. . . it is Simon Singh 's oral appeal against Eady's ruling . The courts will, from the sounds of things, be packed. Jack has aske...

Last night's post took me until 5 a.m. Being unemployed I slept decidedly late today, and it was all over by the time I logged on. We w...

Eighty-odd years ago, when the woman who brought social work and the concept of co-operative problem solving to Iran was a little girl, it ...

Found, as so many of the best things are, on Twitter - and I've been giggling all day! You might need QuickTime player or some other vid...