It has long been theorized that the week prior to an exam is an extremely dangerous time for the relatives of college students.

An alarming piece of research with relevance to both my work and my family: grandmonkeys are advised to sit down and take a couple of statins before reading the full paper.


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Here's what spidermonkey is doing every day at college.

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Still not convinced the universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

The standard source for journalists writing about the discovery of gravitational wave patterns in the early universe compares it to 'a pot of pasta water boiling over'.  Laurence Krauss, being interviewed on Radio 4, described the spirals as 'pasta shaped patterns ( Read more... )

Remember when Spider won the Medical Research Art competition? If not, click the link to see the artwork and artist as they both looked in 2011, and an explanation of what it shows ( Read more... )

From Monkey Federation Academies' bulletin:
14:45-15:45 Science Talk - Dr Jenny Wiseman from the Goddard Centre NASA years 10,11 and sixth form, entitled “is there life on other plants?” at Coleridge in J6-1

1. From wikipedia, while looking for info about Spider's GCSE exam board, OCR, created by merging several qualification providers, including Midland Examining Group (MEG):

Subsequent physics syllabi released by the OCR included the now infamous (fictional) units the "Ocrawatt" and "Ocrajoule" due to overzealous find-and-replace on MEG's part (in ( Read more... )

New York Times: "Japanese Operator says it will Scrap Four Reactors at Plant ( Read more... )