These are the fragments I have shored against my ruins. I wonder if Eliot would be pleased or appalled? Update:...

Gootube? I sure hope that’s not official. Darwin’s missing notebook, which demolished the Victorian hubris that humans stood alone, is...

Bill, this first one is for you. ‘Protecting virus’ converts flu viruses into their own vaccines, offering instant flu protection...

The Spirit of Tyranny is a seductive bastard… New study reveals details of time when Earth was hot, CO2-rich. Hot,...

Did anyone else see Whitley Strieber on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night? Jim Hansen, leading climatologist...

As Thomas Pynchon said, if they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers....

**Splat** Have you ever noticed that some walls are harder than others? Sean McCarthy and Richard Walshe: two men who...

After winning 168 games in a row, chess grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca said, ‘I see only one move ahead, but...