Let’s get one thing clear off the top: I know nothing about theoretical physics. I tried to listen to Hawking’s A Brief History of Time as an audiobook and it damn near made my head explode. So the following shouldn’t be viewed as an endorsement, because I have no idea what I’m talking about. But onwards, [...]
A new report out today reveals the barn-burning reality that old age is harder for fat people than normal-sized ones. Well, of course it is. If you weigh 400 lbs, your body is going to wear out like 50 times faster. They needed a study to figure that out? Listen, I can come up with an entire [...]
I couldn’t help but smil reading this article in the Guardian. It turns out that the extreme xenophobia of neo-fascists and ultra-nationalists isn’t terribly conducive to forming international alliances. A collection of prize fascist dingbats who somehow managed to get elected into the European Parliament tried to form an international caucus, largely to receive funding and [...]
You’ll have to excuse the title of this post…it comes directly from a Russia Information Centre article announcing plans for turning the 100th Anniversary of the Tunguska Event into a tourist festival. You’ll recall that Tunguska, in Siberia, was the site of a massive explosion in 1908, now believed to have been caused by a meteorite detonationg in mid-air. This [...]
That’s the thing about a day at the beach- you never know what you’re going to find. Maybe some lose change, and errant flipper, a half eaten hot dog, or maybe the remains of a WWII P-38 Lightning. And on a lonely Welsh beach, that’s exactly what happened. The plane ditched in shallow water after a training [...]
Whenever I see some pasty investment banker trucking down the street in his shiny Hummer, I am filled with a kind of deep, finger-curling rage. How dare this gentleman, who is clearly suffering from a clear case of penis envy amongst a host of other vague psychological problems, imperil the future of my planet by driving [...]
If you grew up on Marvel Comics like I did, hang on tight. The Internet is about to steal even more of your productivity. The venerable comics giant has announced that it will be placing a substatial part of its back catalog- some 2,500 issues to begin and 20 more added each week- online to [...]