Some thoughts on the Olympics, recycled from the unsuspecting QI forum.  Probably tl;dr for there, and what's worse, it's grown in the meantime...
( tler;dr )

I realize that "-lite" is the order of the day in BBC science programming. But half an hour of establishing shots and soporific waffling just to get to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?  Do me a bleedin' favour.

Comment heard this evening on the BBC not, as one might have expected on Top Gear, but on... Antiques Roadshow. Apparently one of the resident "experts" was especially keen to share this in connection with, of all things, empire-line dresses (from the frist time 'round, that is). It was so out of context that it wasn't at all clear whether it was ( Read more... )

Judging by the marginal rate of commenting, clearly what My Public want is... another "and finally" from the BBC! From that other Carnivora suborder, this time.