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I've been meaning to note that I quite enjoyed the 3 part doco series "Meet the Romans" on SBS the last 3 weeks. Mary Beard...

Catalyst: Plastic Oceans - ABC TV Science I was quite surprised by this story on Catalyst earlier this week.  The link contains the video ...

I've just found something useful. When you use a pc to try to watch Colbert or the Daily Show from their Comedy Central websites, you g...

Twitter Reveals an Ugly Underbelly of Misogyny | The Moderate Voice Is it any wonder that women are leery of voting Republican?

The Bill Clinton speech at the Democrat convention is getting some rave reviews , and rightly so. I have never thought Clinton a particul...

Breakthrough study overturns theory of 'junk DNA' in genome | Science | The Guardian Seems a decent explanation is given in this q...

Deadly witch hunts targeted by grassroots women's groups An odd story from India, where (apparently) life amongst the poor village tea...

Climate change skeptics are deploying the old "this [record] Arctic melt is not so unusual when you go back in history" ploy, so S...

 Measurements of the movement of the jet streams at mid-latitudes, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, 1979 to 2010 Interesting pape...

I am not his biggest fan, but Jon Stewart's take on the Eastwood empty chair routine is pretty much exactly what I expected: pretty fun...

It hasn't bottomed out yet either: Something to note as a matter of caution, though.  Andy Revkin has taken a very careful appro...

I was rather critical of the lack of qualifications and unrealistic and over-inflated rhetoric of "hope and change" through which ...

Chocolate reduces stroke risk for men, research claims Yes, this is cheering, even if the effect is not huge: Larsson writes in the late...

BBC Nature - Birds hold 'funerals' for dead Paul Ryan Is a Climate Change Denialist

I recently mentioned the article in The Economist which detailed the growing realisation in biology that humans (and all animals I guess) a...

Physicists suggest selfishness can pay  Frank Tipler thinks that games theory explains why selfishness doesn't pay, and that therefore...

Activation of old carbon by erosion of coastal and subsea permafrost in Arctic Siberia : Nature : Nature Publishing Group I noticed this a...

Yes, no doubt about it, I have finally succumbed to (what I assume is) this season's flu. At least an illness like this makes one bette...

Horrible Histories recently featured a sketch about Luther and his toilet issues, noting (amongst other things) that he used to write to ...

Backreaction: How to beat a cosmic speeding ticket Well, this is very hard to follow in the details for a non physicist, but Sabine Hossen...