Some interesting articles:

'Why Democracy is always unfair' - New Scientist is on a roll it seems.

'First past the post is a rubbish electoral system'  -  I generally like Tom Harris; it's always weird to read the political opinions of a politician who actually believes them, but it's a good weird. This sermon certainly provides plenty of food for ( Read more... )

 So I was flicking through the latest edition of the New Scientist magazine and came across an article that literally made me heart stop in shock: a sceptical article about the quest for the Theory of Everything.

Amazing no?

( Mmoa gets precious about science she doesn't understand... )

For some reason my practically perfect program keeps giving me blank output files, my printer is just sitting there with it's light on and 5 jobs pending not making a sound and definitely not printing, the determinant of a simple vbrational-thingy-matrix refuses to be worked out and the Optics tutorial is no closer to becoming any more legible.

Woe ( Read more... )

You know, this post started off with two interesting things from Arts and Letters plus something from new scientist and has now morphed into something random and spectacular. Just accept it as a token of my love that I am filling your f-lists with pages of links to places you'd probably rather not know existed. It's for your own good. And for the ( Read more... )

Read this article in the New Scientist a few days ago and it reminded me of an interesting conversation I had with a Gilbert&Sullivan associate just under a year ago ( Preciousness )

Oh, I can't believe I only found  this just now. I suppose that's my punishment for not keeping up with the New Scientist. Rather old, but genuinely amusing.

Cut for unexpected length.

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Fluorescent puppy is world's first transgenic dog which is amazing.

No matter how much my inner five year old might protest ("you mean, they won't glow in the dark...?").

And one for the lols, gacked from metafandom.

EDIT: They will glow under UV light, though.