The house is coming along. We went to see it at the weekend and they've started tiling the roof. I think the roofer caught the flu from being up there in the wet and cold though. We met gothwalk's dad and talked to him about stairs and doors. Due to space (and I thought it was a big house!), we're very limited in what we can do about stairs. We can choose ( Read more... )

Often studies about male & female attraction/differences will ignore homosexuality. Studies that include homosexuality or are about homo/hetro differences ignore bisexuality. Here's one that includes hetrosexual, homosexual and bisexual women and unspecified men. That should please some of you.

There's an article here about a woman who appears to have perfect memory. Pretty impressive stuff. But I'm rather confused by the journalist's surprise that she knew who Bing Crosby was ( Read more... )

Apparently lying is good science. I can't believe this guy!

Link stolen from johnnynexus

Science vs Norse MythologyOne thing I'm curious about, what are they currently being taught? I don't recall being taught evolution in school. Genetics yes, but not evolution. But I read a lot, so I don't always know what I learnt in school and what I picked up elsewhere. Certainly, most of my current knowledge of evolution comes ( Read more... )

Google maps has extended to part of the moon: http://moon.google.com/
Make sure you zoom all the way in.

I wonder how this could connect to flickr and geotagging....

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/space/mg18524911.600

Interesting article about the X chromosome: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4355355.stm

On the page I linked to yesterday (http://www.io.com/~dierdorf/ww.html) has a section with interesting bits of science trivia. Scroll down to the "Columbus, Einstein, etc." section. I finally know what the Theory of Everything is aiming to do. And he reckons that an Irishman would have discovered the Special Theory of Relativity if he hadn't died. ( Read more... )

Tired of all those Greek and Latin words in science? Try reading this: http://www.grijalvo.com/Citas/Peculiar_English.htmRead more... )