Why does he wear his cap backwards, like the yoof? Other than that, Looking for Richard doesn’t pose many questions. It’s a good enough watch, and in the end you come away with a film within a film, with the very best bits of Richard III staged rather well. I liked the rapid switches between rehea...

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Just for a laugh, I went on the hunt at Science Blogs, searching for “agriculture”. I read the first 15 entries.¹

1. About an artist who wanted to examine GM agriculture.
2. About pollution from intensive chicken operations.
3. About fund-raising for schools in the US, one of which is in an agricu...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.5 This week: 89.5

Tuesday 9 October: Things are settling down, and the appetite suppression seems to have mostly kicked in again after a couple of weeks of no oil. Mostly, because yesterday I had the oddest cravings for chocolate. A Magnum after lunch, a teeny bar of cro...

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It’s fun when two of my favourite feeds come together in a single item, to whit “Shooting down ‘amateur grammar nazis’” over at Language Log, which riffs on a recent xkcd cartoon.

I remember, as a young cub reporter, being infected with the news editor’s aversion to the sloppy use of “situati...

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How is it possible that only 87 people can churn out 21.7 million lbs of hamburger — that's 9,842 tonnes, 86 million hamburgers, give or take — in a year? Topps Meat Co was forced to close its business on Friday after having to recall all that meat because at least some had been tainted by E. col...

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