I know I am not one of those people who are good about remembering birthday wishes on LJ but there was a rather special one yesterday. The Herschel and Planck telescopes were launched and are right now winging away to L2. They're real. They're born. New science. New data. this is going to be good!

For those who don't know Lj's own purplecthulhu was part of the ( Read more... )

Well it seems as though the LHC was fired successfully, although they are working up to the really high speeds and haven't actually smashed any protons into eachother yet. PLEASE let that be an end to the OMGBIGSCIENCEISGOINGTOENDTHEWORLD!!!!!!! insane-o freak reporting. Please! If it doesn't stop soon I am going to hit someone. Irritatingly I am ( Read more... )

Today has not been a good, or indeed an especially sane day so I shall curb my initial reaction of wanting to yank my daughter out of the clutches of these ignorant prats RIGHT NOW before they warp her growing mind. ... calm ... calm ... calm ... When I arrived at Montessori they were doing a science experiment. All very fine so far. The teacher, ( Read more... )

I have just been watching Sky TV's top 50 celebrity animals. Well, that is about as good as it gets these days on weekend telly and about all my snot coated brain can cope with at the moment. Somewhere in the top 20 was 'Pingu' which for those of you who don't know is a cute claymation penguin with a Tardis igloo house and an extended family and ( Read more... )